Job summary
Due to a continued increase in our patient list size, we have an
exciting opportunity to recruit GP/s who would like to work between 4-8 sessions. We are therefore
looking for a highly motivated, caring and committed GP who wants to share and
contribute to our patient focused approach.
Our ideal colleague would be somebody who:
- Enjoys the
camaraderie of working in a team
- Wants to improve and
develop services for patients
- Is seeking a positive and
supportive work environment that enables all members of the team to contribute
to the delivery of high quality primary care services
We have excellent clinical and administration teams who are friendly and supportive. Many of our staff, clinical and non clinical, have been with the practice for a number of years and we always aim to welcome and support new colleagues.
Main duties of the job
As a salaried GP at St Heliers Medical Practice, you will manage a busy and interesting caseload, supporting the partners to provide a high standard of access and care to our patient population.
You will work under the BMA salaried GP contract which will include a structured work plan. Within the work plan we have agreed limits on the number of Docman and repeat prescriptions you will be required to undertake. Home visiting is also limited within the plan.
About us
About us
St
Heliers Medical Practice is a well-established and respected practice based in a health centre in Northfield. We have a skilled and experienced team of clinicians who enjoy working as part of a broader team delivering high quality patient care. Key features of the practice:
- Friendly and supportive environment
- Stable team of doctors, nurses, and
administrative staff
- Strong focus on support and communication including weekly clinical meetings
- Practice list of 18,000 and growing
- 8 Partners and 7 salaried GPs
- Skilled nursing and pharmacist teams
- Consistently high levels of QOF achievement
- CQC rated good in all domains
- Teaching and
training medical practice for students and GP registrars close links to
Birmingham University
- Salaried GPs work to BMA salaried contract terms and conditions
- Opportunity to take a lead in a specialist area
If you are dedicated and want to work as part of a team who put patient
experience and care at the heart of everything they do and who provide a
supportive and caring environment for their staff to work within, we would love to hear from
you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will manage a
caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting,
ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.
Clinical responsibilities:
- In
accordance with the Organisations timetable, as agreed, the post-holder
will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including
surgery consultations, telephone 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 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 within the
organisation:
- Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant Organisation 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 practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- In the
course of 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, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have
access to information relating to the practice 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 practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the practice 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 Organisations health
& safety policy, the Organisations health & safety manual, and the
Organisations infection control policy and published procedures. This will
include (but will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to practice
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
- Managing
directly 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 practice
- Active
observation of current working practices across the practice 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
practice 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will manage a
caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting,
ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.
Clinical responsibilities:
- In
accordance with the Organisations timetable, as agreed, the post-holder
will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including
surgery consultations, telephone 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 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 within the
organisation:
- Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant Organisation 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 practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- In the
course of 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, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have
access to information relating to the practice 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 practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the practice 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 Organisations health
& safety policy, the Organisations health & safety manual, and the
Organisations infection control policy and published procedures. This will
include (but will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to practice
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
- Managing
directly 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 practice
- Active
observation of current working practices across the practice 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
practice 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Essential
- Qualified GP GMC Registered
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Essential
- Qualified GP GMC Registered
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
