Salaried General Practitioner

South Tyneside Health Collaboration

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Job summary

If you are passionate about being a GP and delivering outstanding patient care but are looking for a better work-life balance, South Tyneside Health Collaboration would love to talk to you.

South Tyneside Health Collaboration manages two general practices, one in the beautiful coastal village of Whitburn and another, a developing training practice in central Jarrow, with a combined list size circa 8,500.

We host 3 PCNs within South Tyneside as well as deliver several primary care services such as mental health, spirometry, Covid Vaccinations, Admiral Nursing service and Health and Wellbeing outreach.

Due to the expansion of patient services, we are looking for a salaried GP to work 4-8 sessions flexibly across the organisation. The successful candidate will be predominantly based within our practices, with the potential to develop their career into other areas within STHC. We can be flexible with number of sessions and working days for the right candidate.

For more information about the role please contact sarah.wilson190@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities

As post holder you will be expected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMS contract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be expected to support and input into areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the STHC Clinical director.

You are encouraged to utilise and develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as child health surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would be required for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subject to presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMC guidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of our status as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to work as duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way. It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home and practice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by the end of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links and referrals.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of documentation using EMIS.

About us

Who are STHC?

STHC is a valued system partner, originally set up to enable South Tyneside General Practices to work collaboratively in delivering services at scale across the borough of South Tyneside.

We employ over 100 staff of both clinical and non-clinical roles, across the delivery of our 4 Core Functions:

  • Clinical Service Delivery
  • Practice Management
  • Primary Care Network Hosting
  • Business Services

What do we offer?

  • A motivated, multi-skilled and engaged workforce with a one-team ethos and a culture of valued and happy staff.
  • Family friendly policies and flexible working options to support you in balancing your priorities.
  • Resource sharing across 2 GP surgeries.
  • Part of a Primary Care Network with access to a range of clinical support roles including Pharmacists, Podiatrists, MSK professionals, Mental Health Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Health Coaches as well as practice teams of highly skilled Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
  • Attractive salaried as well as GP lead roles.
  • Generous annual leave allowance plus one week of self-managed study leave and protected CPD time.
  • Enrolment in NHS pension scheme.

Date posted

28 January 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

B0170-25-0000

Job locations

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

Gordon Street

South Shields

NE33 4JP


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities for Salaried GP

As a salaried GP you will be mainly based within our STHC practices, however, you may be asked to do specific work for STHC as required; there will be exciting opportunities to develop and be involved with projects across South Tyneside.

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. These visits must be triaged and only offered to genuinely housebound patients.

As the post holder you will be expected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMS contract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be 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 STHC Clinical Lead.

You are encouraged to utilise and develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as child health surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would be required for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subject to presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMC guidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of our status as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to work as duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way. It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home and practice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by the end of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links and referrals.

You will be encouraged to contribute to the operational and strategic leadership of the practices within STHC.

You will be expected to lead in an area(s) of clinical performance and/or service delivery.

1. Review of Job Plan

Your role will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the STHC and yourself. 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:

Clinical duties:You are contracted to provide an agreed number of sessions per week, as per your contract, but you will be expected to be flexible, in particular during holiday periods. You have agreed to deliver an agreed number of sessions per week for Enhanced Hours working.

Clinical duties will include seeing people with both acute and long term conditions, which will also include reviews based on the QOF

You will be expected to be competent and confident to deliver face to face, telephone, video and email consultation as the practice provides all of these.

Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals (which can be changed to longer if appropriate) and you will provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, where this is clinically appropriate, and additional extra consultations where demand is excessive.

You will be required to make home visits within the session time, however the actual number of house calls is very low and we have specialist care home practitioners that carry out many visits that would otherwise have been undertaken by a GP.

You will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time.

You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own patients and also those which have not been generated by yourself and if necessary, the investigations and queries related to other clinicians within the practice, however we do have a robust process for the pre-screening and resultant action of all results/incoming documents so the GP gets very few to act upon.

Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.

Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.

Administration/paperwork:

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.

3. Computerised records

You will be expected to use EMIS bespoke software and follow 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 primary care team on a daily basis. You will also be expected to attend any necessary PCN meetings (PCN West) and attendance at the monthly Practice Educational Events run by ICB are encouraged. There are quarterly staff meeting at Albert Road surgery and it is expected to attend.

5. Personal Development - STHC 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 (dependant on sessions per week) in discussions on clinical practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with STHC clinical lead, colleagues in the locality, ICB etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

You may be encouraged to become responsible for particular areas of practice development.

You may be encouraged to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), BOS work, PCN work, IIF and other local initiatives.

6. Additional sessions: STHC may agree with a practitioner to 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 agreement shall be reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable at three months notice on either side.

7. Leave entitlements: as per contract document

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

See attached person specification and JD

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 theUK Visas and Immigration website.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (Opens in a new tab).

Employer Details

Employer name

South Tyneside Health Collaboration

Location

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

South Shields

Employer's website

https://www.thesthc.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities for Salaried GP

As a salaried GP you will be mainly based within our STHC practices, however, you may be asked to do specific work for STHC as required; there will be exciting opportunities to develop and be involved with projects across South Tyneside.

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. These visits must be triaged and only offered to genuinely housebound patients.

As the post holder you will be expected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMS contract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be 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 STHC Clinical Lead.

You are encouraged to utilise and develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as child health surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would be required for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subject to presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMC guidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of our status as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to work as duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way. It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home and practice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by the end of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links and referrals.

You will be encouraged to contribute to the operational and strategic leadership of the practices within STHC.

You will be expected to lead in an area(s) of clinical performance and/or service delivery.

1. Review of Job Plan

Your role will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the STHC and yourself. 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:

Clinical duties:You are contracted to provide an agreed number of sessions per week, as per your contract, but you will be expected to be flexible, in particular during holiday periods. You have agreed to deliver an agreed number of sessions per week for Enhanced Hours working.

Clinical duties will include seeing people with both acute and long term conditions, which will also include reviews based on the QOF

You will be expected to be competent and confident to deliver face to face, telephone, video and email consultation as the practice provides all of these.

Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals (which can be changed to longer if appropriate) and you will provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, where this is clinically appropriate, and additional extra consultations where demand is excessive.

You will be required to make home visits within the session time, however the actual number of house calls is very low and we have specialist care home practitioners that carry out many visits that would otherwise have been undertaken by a GP.

You will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time.

You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own patients and also those which have not been generated by yourself and if necessary, the investigations and queries related to other clinicians within the practice, however we do have a robust process for the pre-screening and resultant action of all results/incoming documents so the GP gets very few to act upon.

Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.

Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.

Administration/paperwork:

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.

3. Computerised records

You will be expected to use EMIS bespoke software and follow 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 primary care team on a daily basis. You will also be expected to attend any necessary PCN meetings (PCN West) and attendance at the monthly Practice Educational Events run by ICB are encouraged. There are quarterly staff meeting at Albert Road surgery and it is expected to attend.

5. Personal Development - STHC 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 (dependant on sessions per week) in discussions on clinical practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with STHC clinical lead, colleagues in the locality, ICB etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

You may be encouraged to become responsible for particular areas of practice development.

You may be encouraged to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), BOS work, PCN work, IIF and other local initiatives.

6. Additional sessions: STHC may agree with a practitioner to 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 agreement shall be reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable at three months notice on either side.

7. Leave entitlements: as per contract document

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

See attached person specification and JD

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 theUK Visas and Immigration website.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (Opens in a new tab).

Employer Details

Employer name

South Tyneside Health Collaboration

Location

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

South Shields

Employer's website

https://www.thesthc.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified GP.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified GP.

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).

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

South Tyneside Health Collaboration

Address

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

Gordon Street

South Shields

NE33 4JP


Employer's website

https://www.thesthc.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Tyneside Health Collaboration

Address

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

Gordon Street

South Shields

NE33 4JP


Employer's website

https://www.thesthc.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Quality and Patient Services

Sarah Wilson

sarah.wilson190@nhs.net

Date posted

28 January 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

B0170-25-0000

Job locations

Stanhope Parade Health Centre

Gordon Street

South Shields

NE33 4JP


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