Highgate Group Practice

Salaried GP

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Job summary

We are a Large, Innovative, Team orientated, friendly, sociable and well-organised urban London teaching practice with a traditional ethos of patient continuity and excellent patient-centered care.

We are looking for a GP with similar aims and values to join our team.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include surgeries and clinics with appointments lasting 12 minutes and longer. A mix of on the day and routine appointments in every surgery. Practice admin is triaged by our HCP's to reduce the load on our GP's. We are a training practice and are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace for all.

Salary is starting from £11,000 per session, and is depending on experience

About us

We are a PMS practice with 17 000 patients.

We have 7 Clinical Partners and Managing Partner who are supported by 4 Salaried Doctors, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 Health Care Assistants, Counsellor, 2 part -time Pharmacists, 1 Pharmacy technician and a Social Prescriber.

We are a training and teaching practice (STs, F2s and medical students) and we encourage our salaried GP's to participate and assist with this training.

Our clinical system is EMIS web, and we work in teams in order to achieve our targets

We have weekly clinical and practice meetings and a daily morning Coffee break to catch up clinically and socially.

We run additional services (family therapy, minor surgery, anticoagulation, LARC fitting) which again we encourage our salaried GP's to participate in.

We are involved in the PCN, ICB, LMC, Federation and a collaborative provider of Urgent Care at the local Trust

Details

Date posted

04 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A5657-23-0002

Job locations

Highgate Group Practice

44 North Hill

London

N6 4QA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

  • In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
  • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
  • Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
  • Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
  • In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
  • Providing counselling and health education
  • Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
  • Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Collecting data for audit purposes
  • Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
  • Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
  • In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

  • Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
  • A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
  • Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
  • Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
  • Contributing to the summarising of patient records and coding patient data
  • Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

  • In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
  • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
  • Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
  • Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
  • In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
  • Providing counselling and health education
  • Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
  • Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Collecting data for audit purposes
  • Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
  • Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
  • In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

  • Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
  • A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
  • Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
  • Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
  • Contributing to the summarising of patient records and coding patient data
  • Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in working in primary care
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in working in primary care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Highgate Group Practice

Address

Highgate Group Practice

44 North Hill

London

N6 4QA


Employer's website

https://www.highgategrouppractice.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Highgate Group Practice

Address

Highgate Group Practice

44 North Hill

London

N6 4QA


Employer's website

https://www.highgategrouppractice.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Managing Partner

Nicola Davies

nicoladavies@nhs.net

02083406628

Details

Date posted

04 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A5657-23-0002

Job locations

Highgate Group Practice

44 North Hill

London

N6 4QA


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