Job responsibilities
Pennine Drive Surgery
Job Plan for Salaried GP
The job
plan is the document that translates expectations of employee and
employer into a working schedule. It ensures that the post delivers and its aims
and the requirements of the contract of employment are met.It is
essential to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role
and has the ability to work as an effective person within our team. We regard
ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member ofthe team
is important and receives due respect regardless of position.
It is our
common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our
patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.
Duties and Responsibilities
The
duties of the post are to provide a full range of general medical
services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary
Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed
appropriate.
· The post
holder is expected to support the partners of Pennine Drive Surgery in
providing all services outlined in the GMS Contract and also in the aims and
objectives of the Practice.
· The post
holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the
practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes
framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review
and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice.
Your performance in each area will be monitored and referrals
may be re-routed if appropriate.
The post
holder is encouraged to utilise and develop any skills for the
improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations,
child health surveillance, family planning training if
approved by the NHS England/CCG. This will be subject to presentation of the
appropriate certificates and update of relevant courses. The post holder is expected to maintain and
keep good standards of
computerised clinical records at all times. Full involvement in any
practice training and on-going requirements of our status as a paper
light practice is expected. The post
holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of
paperwork.
1. Review of Plan
The Job Plan
will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will
be developed collaboratively between the employer and employee.
After this time it will be subject to annual review, or when
there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested
by either party.
2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:
(a) Clinical
duties: You are contracted to provide 6 sessions each week which will be all day
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday normally between the hours of 9.00 am and
18.30 hours
(b)
Increasingly the practice is called upon to provide Telephone/video
/e consultations
(c) Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute
intervals and you will
provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the
afternoon, plus you will take your share of extra consultations
where demand is excessive. You will be expected to do 15 appointments in the
morning and 15 in the afternoon.
(d) Home
Visits You will
be required to make home visits within the session time
specified if you are on call and routine visits when required. If the visits
exceed 3 when you are on call they are shared with the doctor on call in the
afternoon.
(e) You
will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries
from patients or other health care professionals in your
administrative time.
(f) Results
You are
expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence
related to your own allocated batch of patients
and also those that you have generated yourself (investigations
and queries related to your consultations).
(g)
Clinical duties will include seeing people with acute conditions,
on-going chronic conditions which will also include
reviews based on the QOF.
(h)Repeat prescriptions
The afternoon on call doctor deals with all the
repeat prescriptions and any late visit requests.
3. Administration/paperwork:
(a) The
Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time in the
job plan to complete all administrative duties related to your
clinical work, recognising the fact that all practitioners
work at different rates.
(b)
Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice
policy.
(c)
Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated
documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.
(d)
Results are normally communicated either electronically or by
letter, you will be expected to action these on a daily basis for
your own patients. You will also take a share in dealing
with the daily post including correspondence addressed
to you and to take a share of the workload for absent
Partners.
(e) Reports: You will be expected to
complete examinations and
reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the
GMS contract on patients known to you.
Additionally
you may be expected to complete reports requested
by other parties such as insurance companies,
OFSTED
and employers.
(f) Computerised records: You will be
expected to use appropriate
processes for computerised record keeping including
computerised clinical templates and protocols as well as
ensuring that significant information as determined by the
practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains.
You will take part in reconciling information input periodically.
4.
Primary care team meetings: formal or informal, essential to the
delivery of team based care are held from time to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with the
District Nurses and the network teams.
5.
Practice Meeting and Personal Development
The
practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence based
medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will be
expected to participate using your Personal Development
Time, in
discussions on clinical practice standards, developing practice
protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners,
audit, significant event analysis, meetings with colleagues
in the locality, District Nurses etc .Where these occur on
an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be
required.
6. You will
be expected to provide support for any students or trainees
in the practice when this has been approved by the Partners.
7. You may
be expected to become responsible for particular areas of
practice development.
8. You may
be expected to be responsible for an area of the Quality and
Outcomes Framework (QOF).
9. Your time
table will be agreed and finalised upon your appointment.
10. Additional
sessions: The Practice may agree with a practitioner that he
or she should undertake work which is not specified in his or her
Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof.
The extra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis to
a full-time practitioners’ salary. Any such agreementshall be
reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable
at three months’ notice on either side.
11 Leave entitlements: as per contract document.