Senior Lead GP - Links Road Surgery

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Sussex Primary Cares Values

• Be patient-focused in everything we do
• Support staff to be the best they can be
• Innovate, learn and evaluate

Sussex Primary Care run a number of GP Practices across Sussex providing excellent primary care in the heart of the community. We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs.

2. Job Summary

The model agreed by the SPC Board is that the supervision / management of practice staff, and the leadership / management functions will be provided through a joint Senior Lead GP and ACP Clinical Lead model.

The Senior Lead GP plays a pivotal role in ensuring the service we provide is safe, that staff are well supervised, and the service continues to improve the quality of care for patients. Along with the practice ACP, the following will be achieved:

• Allow GPs to spend more time doing the tasks only they can do specific types of patients, specific clinical and non-clinical administration, specific leadership functions, and clinical supervision of ACP Clinical Leads and medics / pharmacists
• Improve our ability to segment patient care in a more standardised way, and identify how best to utilise our workforce in individual surgeries and across SPC surgeries
• Improve our ability to recruit and retain Salaried GPs in-practice and reduce our use of Locum GPs
• Improve our ability to recruit and retain experienced ACP Clinical Leads to support and develop the ACP Clinical Leadership model further, and to clinically supervise and develop ACP and Non-medical prescriber staff
• Improve our ability to recruit and retain ACPs and ANPs to sit under the ACP Clinical Leadership model, and be more supported to develop in their ACP and ANP roles and scope of competencies
• Future proof the SPC model standardisation of roles, processes and systems, centralisation of roles, resilient workforce, improved stewardship of SPC finances
• Ensure that the practice level leadership and/or management functions are covered by a clinician who is best placed to do so.

3. Key Responsibilities

Within these overall goals, the role of the Senior Lead GP is as follows:

a) Clinical Leadership

Provide visible clinical leadership

Be a point of contact for practice staff who need support and guidance over quality and safety concerns. This may include a formal role in some staff members appraisals in some instances.

Develop clinical governance strategies, systems and processes and ensure the active

participation by all medical staff.

Works with practice management to lead the wider practice team including regular

attendance at practice meetings

Support career development of clinical staff

Build relationships with SPC Safeguarding Lead, SPC Education Lead, Senior GP lead and ACP clinical leads from other SPC Practices and share learning and good practice

Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future, bringing the quality and safety concerns to the fore and ensuring these are balanced with organisational and financial concerns.

Develop and maintain active working relationships with PCNs

Sign off any additional policies/procedures as required

Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF/LCS and IIF

Attend quality assurance meeting and education meetings with other senior clinical lead GPs and with Medical Director for quality assurance purposes and agree to work in line with SPC Clinical Governance structure

To work collaboratively with practice management operational team and ACP clinical lead as practice executive team

b) Clinical Quality/Safety

Be responsible for taking an overview of the clinical functions of Links Road Surgery in terms of service quality and safety.

Ensure that the systems exist to embed best clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record keeping etc)

Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Significant Event reviews and complaints, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice

Be the joint CQC registered manager with the Practice Manager

Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness

Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service (e.g., record keeping, national and local safety alerts)

Take the overall lead for arranging practice education meetings and ensuring that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy

Be the Caldicott Guardian for Links Road Surgery

Be the lead clinician for ensuring that all areas of clinical leadership (see SPC Clinical Leadership Model) are covered within the practice

c) Supervision

You will be responsible for delivering peer-based support across the practice team and be responsible for arranging the group supervision of practice based non-medical prescribers alongside the ACP Clinical Lead

Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model

4. Organisation Chart

The Salaried General Practitioner will report to:

Interim General Manager

5. Flexibility

a) This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the role. The postholder may be required to carry out other duties commensurate with their banding and competence.

6. Policies and Procedures

a) The postholder is required to familiarise themselves with all organisation policies and procedures and to comply at all times.

7. Confidentiality and Data Protection

a) The postholder must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business and always meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act (1998).

b) The postholder must always comply with all organisation information and data protection policies. The work of Sussex Primary Care is of a confidential nature and any information gained by the postholder in their role must not be communicated to other persons except where required in the recognised course of duty.

8. Health and Safety

a) Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and must follow these in full at all times, including ensuring that they act in line with all agreed procedures at all times in order to maintain a safe environment for patients, visitors and colleagues.

9. Equality and Diversity

a) Sussex Primary Care is working towards equality and has policies relating to the equality of opportunity in employment and service delivery. All staff are expected to comply with these policies.

10. Use of Technology

a) The organisation is making increased use of computer technology. The majority of employees (both clinical and non-clinical) should expect to use automated information systems in their work in order to improve quality and co-ordination of services, and to enable faster and more certain communication within the Organisation. Necessary training will be provided.

11. No Smoking Policy

a) Sussex Primary Care operates a no-smoking policy, in line with Government legislation. This applies to all staff, visitors and patients. It is a condition of employment for staff that they do not smoke whilst on duty or in uniform or anywhere on Organisation premises. This includes electronic cigarettes.

b) Whilst we do not discriminate against employing smokers, they are expected to adhere to this policy and all prospective employees should be aware of this.

12. Professional Registration

a) All employees who are required to be a member of a professional body are required to hold relevant registration and must comply with the standards and guidelines of their professional practice, education and conduct and must act within the boundary of the code of conduct at all times.

13. Infection Prevention and Control

a) Infection Prevention and Control is everybody's responsibility. All staff, both clinical and non-clinical are required to adhere to the organisations Infection Prevention and Control policy and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection prevention and control at all times thereby reducing the burden of Health Care Associated Infections.

14. Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults

a) Sussex Primary Careis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Rigorous recruitment checks are carried out and successful applicants may be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

15. Quality

a) Excellent care at the heart of the community is our organisation vision. To make sure our care meets this high standard all staff must ensure that the three themes of quality care are provided in every encounter they have with our patients. The three themes are safe care, effective care and patient-centred care.

Person Specification

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.
• Accredited as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) or have 5 years experience as a full time GP with a demonstrable commitment to quality practice.
• Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
• Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

Essential

• 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)
• Clinical Governance
• Primary care prevention and screening services
• Self-audit and reflection
• Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
• Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
• Computer literacy
• Adaptability to change

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately
• Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to work within the changing structures of the NHS and work to the requirements of other regulatory bodies
• Excellent communicator
• Work in line with practice systems and processes

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

Sussex Primary Care

Address

Doctors Surgery

Links Road

Portslade

Brighton

BN41 1XH

Employer's website

http://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)