Job summary
This vacancy is being advertised by One Wight Health - GP Federation, on behalf of St Helen's Medical Centre.
We are seeking a GP to join our enthusiastic, successful team working
together to maintain the ethos of traditional family practice medicine at St
Helens Medical Centre on the Isle of Wight.
You can enjoy an above average income with a great work life balance
working in our lovely semi-rural/coastal practice caring for an affluent
predominantly elderly population of around 6,800 people.
GP Partners, Salaried GPs and full or part-time applicants are welcome
to join our progressive and thriving practice.
Main duties of the job
As part of our team, you will manage a caseload and deal with a wide
range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards
and quality of care for all registered and temporary patients.
About us
St Helens Medical Centre is a top performing practice based in a lovely
semi-rural/coastal location, where you can enjoy an above average income with a
great work life balance.
We have well-equipped, fully owned, modern village centre premises with
air-conditioned consulting rooms and a branch surgery in the neighbouring
village of Bembridge.
Together with our friendly team of professionals including Advanced
Nurse Prescribers, practice nurses, paramedic, social prescriber, health and
wellbeing coach, care coordinators, MSK practitioner, HCAs and admin staff you
will be helping to care for our affluent, predominantly elderly population of
around 6,800 people.
We are the highest performing prescribing practice on the Isle of Wight
and have consistently very high QOF and CQC achievements.
We are also a long-established training practice for both registrars
and medical students and we are actively engaged in commissioning and
innovations to develop our services to meet local population needs.
The Isle of Wight offers beautiful scenery in abundance and with
beaches close by a lunchtime beach walk is easily an option.
It is also home to cultural and sporting opportunities from heritage
sites to sailing and cycling events and world-renowned music festivals.
With fast connections to the mainland, competitive house prices and
many schools rated as good by Ofsted it is a great place to live and work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
Main duties of the job
As part of our team, you will manage a caseload and deal with a wide
range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards
and quality of care for all registered and temporary patients.
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 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
- 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 practice health & safety policy, the
practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control
policy and published procedures.
- Contribute
to the implementation of services applying practice policies, standards,
and guidance, discussing with other members of the team how the policies,
standards and guidelines will affect your own work and supporting the
Practices achievement of QOF requirements by taking appropriate actions
as highlighted and requested.
- Compliance
with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, safeguarding
- The
post-holder will be expected to have a commitment to life-long learning
and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contribute
to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contribute
to the development of computer-based patient records
- Contribute
to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
The post-holder will also support the equality,
diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues and respect the strict confidentiality
of information provided to them by patients, colleagues, and other
professionals.
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 postholder will
attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
Main duties of the job
As part of our team, you will manage a caseload and deal with a wide
range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards
and quality of care for all registered and temporary patients.
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 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
- 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 practice health & safety policy, the
practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control
policy and published procedures.
- Contribute
to the implementation of services applying practice policies, standards,
and guidance, discussing with other members of the team how the policies,
standards and guidelines will affect your own work and supporting the
Practices achievement of QOF requirements by taking appropriate actions
as highlighted and requested.
- Compliance
with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, safeguarding
- The
post-holder will be expected to have a commitment to life-long learning
and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contribute
to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contribute
to the development of computer-based patient records
- Contribute
to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
The post-holder will also support the equality,
diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues and respect the strict confidentiality
of information provided to them by patients, colleagues, and other
professionals.
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 postholder will
attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in primary care
- Telephone triage
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Full and unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register and named on the English National Performers List.
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (written and verbal)
- Knowledge of the NHS and understanding of clinical governance.
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
Desirable
- Knowledge of System One Clinical System
Other requirements
Essential
- 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.
- 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
- Applicants must have current UK professional registration
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in primary care
- Telephone triage
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Full and unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register and named on the English National Performers List.
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (written and verbal)
- Knowledge of the NHS and understanding of clinical governance.
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
Desirable
- Knowledge of System One Clinical System
Other requirements
Essential
- 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.
- 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
- Applicants must have current UK professional registration
Desirable
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.
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.
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).
