Job summary
The East Lancashire Alliance (ELA) is a values
driven, not-for-profit provider of innovative healthcare across East
Lancashire. Led by a Clinical Board, it has been providing excellent quality
care to patients since its inception in 2021. Fundamentally, we align ourselves
with the NHS and embrace the ethos of social enterprise, reinvesting surpluses
generated back into our services.
We are passionate about providing the best
quality care for patients in our Place, for the betterment of our system.
The
post-holder will manage and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary
care setting, predominantly within the Enhanced Access and Acute Respiratory
Infection Hub services, ensuring the highest standards of care.
There are several posts available, this is a 12 month term contract with the potential to become a permanent position.
These posts are for 4 sessions a week, to be covered Monday to Sunday up to 9pm.
You will be required from time to time to work at other practices within a locality.
In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Interviews scheduled to take place on 13/08/2024.
Main duties of the job
Clinical responsibilities:
- In accordance with the ELA timetable, as agreed, the postholder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone/video 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- 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 Lancashire Medicines Management Board prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
About us
The East Lancashire Alliance is a network of 9 PCNs
covering 48 GP practices covering a population of over 390,000 patients across
East Lancashire. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride
ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and
respected at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. The Alliance are proud
to represent our member practices and to champion our Primary Care Partners, by
working with local general practice and other system partners in the provision
of patient centred, local healthcare services.
Each practice has a close-knit team of staff who
collectively seek to improve the health of their patient populations.
East Lancashire is one of the world's most innovative,
original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the
surrounding countryside, to the heart of the vibrant inner Towns and Villages
with great shopping, entertainment and dining options. Wherever you go you will
experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour
and generosity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., 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 read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the ELA or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the ELA as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the ELA may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with our policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the ELA health & safety policy, health & safety manual, and infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to ELA guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage, and transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff, and patients.
- Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g., pandemic, or individual infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- Directly managing all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the ELA
- Active observation of current working practices across the ELA in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed, and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
- Maintenance of sterile environments
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the ELA as part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the ELA, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply ELA policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Please see attached Full Job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., 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 read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the ELA or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the ELA as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the ELA may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with our policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the ELA health & safety policy, health & safety manual, and infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to ELA guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage, and transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff, and patients.
- Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g., pandemic, or individual infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- Directly managing all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the ELA
- Active observation of current working practices across the ELA in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed, and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
- Maintenance of sterile environments
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the ELA as part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the ELA, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply ELA policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Please see attached Full Job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- In practice as a General Practitioner / locum practitioner.
- Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF).
Desirable
- Experience of supporting service change.
- Experience of team leadership.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
- Commitment to personal and professional development.
- Commitment to education and training.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Excellent record keeping skills.
- Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care.
- Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
Desirable
- Provision of enhanced services, e.g. minor surgery
Qualifications
Essential
- A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
- Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983.
- Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
- Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
- Accredited as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) or have 5 yrs experience as a full time GP with a demonstrable commitment to quality practice.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- In practice as a General Practitioner / locum practitioner.
- Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF).
Desirable
- Experience of supporting service change.
- Experience of team leadership.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
- Commitment to personal and professional development.
- Commitment to education and training.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Excellent record keeping skills.
- Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care.
- Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
Desirable
- Provision of enhanced services, e.g. minor surgery
Qualifications
Essential
- A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
- Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983.
- Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
- Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
- Accredited as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) or have 5 yrs experience as a full time GP with a demonstrable commitment to quality practice.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
