Locum GP - 6 sessions

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SALARIED GP AT NVP

Patient Care - Are you Caring and Effective?

In accordance with the Practice session timetable, you will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery and telephone consultations ( including a fair share of the extended hours rota), visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Take the lead role of responsible duty doctor as part of a rota.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPs and nurses with clinical queries

Participate in proportionally shared enhanced Access hours (to be discussed) along with the other clinicians within the business. This could be Early starts, late working or occasional Saturday working.

Governance and Risk Management - Are you/we Safe?

Represent the practice at CQC and NHS/CCG quality monitoring inspections

Ensure compliance with all relevant company, local and national guidelines and legislation

Adhere to safeguarding requirements and deal appropriately with complaints, incidents and alerts using company systems and policies

Adhere to all company clinical governance policies

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collect data for audit purposes and for compliance with QOF requirements

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

Reflect and assess own and team performance.

Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs in a person centred way.

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Leadership and Development - Are we Well-Led as a practice?

Lead on clinical areas and projects to develop the practice and enhance offerings to patients operationally and strategically.

Mentor and provide clinical supervision for a multi-disciplinary team, this may include Salaried GPs, Nursing and Administrative teams

Follow the company clinical performance review process

Commit to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

Meet CPD requirements and keep personal, mandatory and/or organisational training up to date, including any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

Operational Delivery - Are we Responsive?

Support the practice in achieving contractual targets by leading on areas and mentoring staff who also lead on areas

Support the practice operations teams to ensure that the practice stays within budget

Participate and lead in opportunities for new or expanding services at the surgery to support the practice development plan.

Make suggestions and act on ways to improve and enhance the team or practices performance using own, colleagues or patient feedback to promote You Said, We Listened, We Took Action

Engagement - Is everyone working for the same outcomes?

Maintain mutually beneficial working relationships with all stakeholders, for example NHSE, CCG, CQC, Local Authorities, LMC etc.

Participate in the PPG and attend PPG meetings where required

Communicate effectively with other team members.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Experience

Essential

• Appropriate level of primary care experience
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
• Ability to understand and work in a politically sensitive environment (Id remove, this sounds like the practice has political challenges)
• MBBS or equivalent medical degree
• Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
• Inclusion on National Performers List
• Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
• BEHAVIOURS
• Analytical Thinking
• Planning & Organising
• Delivering Innovation
• Communicating Effectively

Desirable

• Responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes.
• Evidence of involvement in clinical research in primary care.

Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate level of primary care experience
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
• MBBS or equivalent medical degree
• Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
• Inclusion on National Performers List
• Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
• BEHAVIOURS
• Analytical Thinking
• Planning & Organising
• Patient Understanding
• Effective Communication

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership in current role eg mentoring, leading safeguarding or prescribing domains or responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes
• GCP for research training

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).