General Practitioner - Weald PCN

Job description

Job responsibilities

As an ARRS GP working within the Weald PCN, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

1. Clinical Care and Patient Management

Provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical care to patients across a range of settings including face-to-face, telephone, and virtual consultations.

Manage acute, chronic, and complex medical conditions in line with national and local guidelines.

Review and manage test results, hospital letters, and repeat prescriptions in a timely manner.

Conduct medication reviews where appropriate, in collaboration with the clinical pharmacist.

2. Same Day Access and Triage

Support same day/urgent care clinics, assessing and managing patients presenting with undifferentiated problems.

Work with the wider clinical team (including ANPs and paramedics) to ensure patients are seen by the right clinician at the right time.

3. Continuity of Care

Build trusted, long-term relationships with patients, particularly those with complex or ongoing needs.

Support continuity through planned care reviews (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, frailty) and care plan updates.

4. Care Home Support and Frailty Work

Participate in routine and ad hoc care home visits as part of a multidisciplinary approach to managing frail and elderly patients.

Contribute to personalised care planning and end-of-life care discussions where appropriate.

5. Team Collaboration and Supervision

Work closely with other ARRS staff including clinical pharmacists, social prescribers, care coordinators, and frailty paramedics.

Participate in regular team meetings, case reviews, and multidisciplinary discussions.

Receive clinical supervision from an experienced named GP and contribute to the learning environment of the practice.

6. Record Keeping and Administration

Maintain accurate and timely patient records using the practice clinical system (e.g. EMIS).

Complete referral forms, sick notes, and other administrative tasks associated with routine GP work.

7. Professional Development

Engage in continuous professional development activities, with potential support to develop educator or specialist interests in the future.

Contribute to the improvement of practice and PCN services, including involvement in audits, QOF, and service development where appropriate.

Maintaining, Monitoring & Updating Computer Database and Management of Medical Records & Practice Audits

Ensure that PCN clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under IM&T protocols, QoF, QIPP, Enhanced Services and other clinical initiatives the practice partakes in.

Respond to alerts on records

Appropriate use of Read/SNOMED codes (via templates where appropriate)

Participating in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits

Participation in the auditing of PCN activity

Participation in patient satisfaction audits

Clinical Governance

Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence

Attendance at primary health care team meetings, significant event audit meetings, annual complaint audit meeting and others as deemed necessary

Initiate and participate in the formulation and implementation of new protocols, policies and procedures to aid and improve administrative organisation and the provision of services to patients

Ensure that the PCN complaints system is adhered to

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant PCN and organisational policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

Completion of Information Governance online toolkit or attendance at group training annually and provide certificate

Maintain current CPR and anaphylaxis certification and safeguarding for adults and children certificates.

Professional Development

Participate in an annual performance review under agreed headings

Engage in appropriate educational activity to maintain clinical competence and performance

Attendance and participation in educational meetings in the Practice and externally

Support colleagues in their professional development

Medical indemnity and registration

The GP is required to effect and maintain full registration with the General Medical Council and to effect and maintain membership on an occurrence-based basis with a recognised medical defence organisation commensurate with the practitioners responsibilities. The practitioner is also required to provide written proof and evidence of such registration and membership.

Please see the full job description and person specification in the side panel.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level
• Registered with the GMC

Communication skills

Essential

• Skills for communicating on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
• Ability to pull together comprehensive process documents
• Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at a range of levels

Desirable

• Ability to present ideas to large groups as well as on a 121 basis

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience as Primary Care General Practitioner
• Knowledge of EMIS
• Experience of managing a patient caseload
• Basic knowledge of
• project principles
• Previously worked in similar position within the health sector
• Able to use Microsoft Office applications with above average capability with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Skills

Essential

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise
• Skills for supporting project management and planning workload
• Effective management of own time and diary
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales

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 NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

West Kent Primary Care

Address

Hospice In The Weald

Maidstone Road

Pembury

Tunbridge Wells

Kent

TN2 4TA

Employer's website

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