Job summary
Flexible Salaried GP
We are looking for clinicians to join our practice in Gloucester.
G DOC LTD has an opportunity for GPs who enjoy working in a team environment to join our Gloucester
Health Access Centre (GHAC) practice operating in the centre of Gloucester. We
have sessions available at GHAC and also its Branch Surgery in Matson.
GHAC has a stable clinical staff structure in
place but increasing patient population and demand means we are looking to
augment the current GPs with an additional salaried GP(s) covering up to 6
sessions.
We offer highly flexible working that can be tailored to your needs
and balanced with patient requirements. We share on-call duties across all GPs, guarantee finite patients contacts per day, and
offer an excellent
work-life balance.
This is a fantastic opportunity
for a new or established GP seeking a salaried position.
Highly competitive pay
in excess of £13,000 per 5 hour session. (Note, there is some flexibility in
session lengths).
BMA model contract.
Flexible hours to
accommodate a portfolio career, family responsibilities, and out of work
interests.
Friendly, supportive, and expert practice teams who work alongside our GPs taking care of routine clinical administrative tasks.
Closing date: 19 February 2025
Interview
date: 26 February 2025
The Care
Quality Commission requires us to have a complete employment history from the
age of 16, including explanations for any gaps in employment.
Main duties of the job
-
Primary care clinician duties
including, but not limited to - face to face consultations, video consultations,
telephone consultations, e-consultations and queries. Also, home visits, duty doctor, on-call
responsibilities, clinical administration, prescribing, and dealing with
queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. Acting as Named GP for a share of registered
patients proportionate to contracted hours.
-
As part of the Practice team,
contributing to the delivery of QOF and enhanced services.
-
Contributing to the management and
development of the Primary Care Network, including the performance of work
undertaken by the Practice as part of the PCN.
-
Helping to ensure that the Practice
remains safe and effective, including by the use of clinical audit and learning
from significant events and complaints.
Attending team meetings. Actively contributing to safeguarding.
-
Helping to ensure that the Practice
provides a supportive working environment for clinicians, trainees and other
employees.
- Supporting colleagues
learning and professional development, as well as your own.
-
Complying with the General Medical
Councils Good Medical Practice and other standards for doctors.
-
Helping to ensure that the Practice
complies with CQC requirements for primary care, including all fundamental
standards of care.
About us
G DOC LTD is owned by all the GP Practices in Gloucestershire; the
Practices are our shareholders.
We operate on a not-for-profit basis: any profits are redistributed into
primary care in Gloucestershire.
We are a limited company run by a Board of Directors, most of whom are experienced
local GPs.
We run a number of GP practices, as well as some other services for the
whole county.
In Gloucester we run 9,500 patients at Gloucester Health Access Centre/Matson
Lane (9,500 patients) and Partners in
Health (12,400).
In the Forest of Dean, we run two practices, both of which are
dispensing: Lydney (7,500 patients), and Blakeney (3,200 patients).
Our countywide services include:
G DOC is running a Covid Medicines Service to help and support the
high-risk patients in Gloucestershire.
Over 17,000 primary care appointments each year at Gloucester Health
Access Centre for patients who may need to be seen the same day when their own
practice is already full, or who do not have a registered GP. GHAC is open
8am8pm, 365 days a year.
For more details visit our websitehttps://ghac.co.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
- You will be required to be immunised in compliance with Green Book and NHS recommendations for your role.
- Ensuring that you always work
within your own competencies and training
- Complying with G DOC policies
-
Observing health and safety
guidelines at all times
-
Any other reasonable duties that
may be required from time-to-time
Clinical responsibilities
- In accordance with the
Practice timetable, you will make yourself available to undertake a variety
of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone
consultations and queries, triaging, visiting patients at home, checking and
signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results,
patient medical reports and examinations e.g. insurance companies, on behalf
of the Practice, referral letters, and NHS private paperwork and
correspondence.
- Acting Named GP for a
share of registered patients proportionate to contracted hours.
- Undertaking a share of the clinical
and administrative work of the Practice, including pooled clinical admin,
QOF, audit, prescribing reviews etc.
- Making professional,
autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether
self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the
organisation;
- Recording clear and
contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards;
- Collecting data for audit
purposes as per Practice protocols.
- Reviewing patients for the
purposes of quality improvement and safety. i.e. MRHA safety alerts and
dementia reviews.
- Prescribing in accordance with
locally agreed or national guidelines.
- Cover for other doctors by
reciprocal sharing of correspondence, results and prescriptions for absent
doctors.
Other responsibilities with the
Practice
Contributing to the teaching
and training of trainees, new employees and employees who are undertaking
training.
Awareness of and compliance
with all relevant G DOC policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of
the Practice.
Contributing to
evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Attending training, Practice
meetings and clinical meetings and events organised by the Practice, PCN, or
other agencies such as the ICB, where appropriate.
Contributing to audits and
written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and
receives the designated funding (e.g. Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF
audit etc.)
Treating colleagues with
courtesy and respect.
Complying with G DOCs values,
and the values of your practice/team.
Confidentiality
o
Comply with the Confidentiality Agreement.
Health & Safety
o
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, you have a personal
responsibility to have regard to your own and others safety.
o
You should familiarise yourself with fire exits at all sites where
you work, and the action that you should take in the event of a fire.
o
Personal alarms are available from G DOC for all GPs, wherever you
are working. Your site induction
should cover local procedures for summoning external help. Please ensure you
familiarise yourself with these local procedures.
o
You must comply with site Health and Safety procedures, including
those that concern clinical waste, use of hazardous substances, and the use
and disposal of sharps.
o
Health and safety hazards should be reported to the Practice
Manager.
o
You should dress appropriately and professionally. To reduce the risk of sharps injuries,
shoes should be closed (not open sandals).
o
You must ensure that your car is insured for commuting and home
visits.
o
GPs in Gloucestershire have been the victims of serious &
sustained stalking and violence. You
should not give anyone outside the Practice information about when and where
colleagues will be working. Refer any queries about rotas etc to the Practice
Manager or G DOC. Be aware that
stalkers may have knowledge of the local healthcare system and sound very
plausible.
Equality and Diversity
You
will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and
colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that
recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that
is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation;
- Respecting the privacy,
dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is everyones responsibility. You will:
- Ensure you are familiar with G DOCs safeguarding procedures
- Report all concerns promptly, following the safeguarding procedures
- Ensure that you maintain an appropriate level of safeguarding training
for your role
-
Contribute to meetings and other
safeguarding processes, as appropriate to your role.
Quality and Patient Safety
You
will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Comply with the General
Medical Councils Good Medical Practice.
- Alert other team members to
issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant
Event Analysis reviews
- Assess own performance and
take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision;
- Contribute to the
effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making
suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance;
- Work effectively other
agencies to meet patients needs;
- Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources.
- Avoid working if you are
impaired from doing so safely or effectively, for example due to illness.
- Avoid working excessive hours
that might impair your clinical performance, and ensure that you have
sufficient rest between Clinical Sessions.
You must not work a daytime clinical session for G DOC if you have
worked during the previous night, unless you have had at least eight hours
break between the two sessions.
- Ensure that any necessary
handover and follow up arrangements for patients have been made.
- Include work for G DOC in your
appraisal discussions, including any complaints or significant events in
which you have been involved, and audit results where provided.
- Inform G DOC if you have
concerns about a colleague that might affect patient safety
- Inform G DOC of any complaints
or significant events that have arisen from your work for G DOC, whether in
services directly provided by G DOC or for a third party provider.
- Participate in investigations
of any complaints or significant events that have arisen from your work for G
DOC in a timely manner, if asked to do so.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you are under investigation by the General Medical Council or NHS England
(e.g. the PAG), an employer or an ICB.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have any restrictions or conditions imposed on your practice by the
General Medical Council or NHS England (e.g. the PAG), or an ICB.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have been suspended or removed from the National Performers List.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have been charged with any criminal offence.
Communication
You
should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team
and will strive to:
- You
should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team
and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with
other team members, including through use of email, TeamNet and other agreed
communication channels;
- Communicate effectively with
patients and carers;
- Recognise peoples needs for
alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly i.e. signing and
use of telephone and face-to-face translators.
You will check your NHS email and TeamNet each working
day.
Contribution to the planning and
implementation of services
You
will:
Apply Practice policies,
standards and guidance;
- Discuss with other members of
the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work;
- Participate in audit
- Work with colleagues and the
management team to achieve standards of quality, performance standards,
budgets and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare.
- Contribute towards the
development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that
are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by
NHS England/ DoH/ ICB/new legislation etc.)
Job description
Job responsibilities
- You will be required to be immunised in compliance with Green Book and NHS recommendations for your role.
- Ensuring that you always work
within your own competencies and training
- Complying with G DOC policies
-
Observing health and safety
guidelines at all times
-
Any other reasonable duties that
may be required from time-to-time
Clinical responsibilities
- In accordance with the
Practice timetable, you will make yourself available to undertake a variety
of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone
consultations and queries, triaging, visiting patients at home, checking and
signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results,
patient medical reports and examinations e.g. insurance companies, on behalf
of the Practice, referral letters, and NHS private paperwork and
correspondence.
- Acting Named GP for a
share of registered patients proportionate to contracted hours.
- Undertaking a share of the clinical
and administrative work of the Practice, including pooled clinical admin,
QOF, audit, prescribing reviews etc.
- Making professional,
autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether
self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the
organisation;
- Recording clear and
contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards;
- Collecting data for audit
purposes as per Practice protocols.
- Reviewing patients for the
purposes of quality improvement and safety. i.e. MRHA safety alerts and
dementia reviews.
- Prescribing in accordance with
locally agreed or national guidelines.
- Cover for other doctors by
reciprocal sharing of correspondence, results and prescriptions for absent
doctors.
Other responsibilities with the
Practice
Contributing to the teaching
and training of trainees, new employees and employees who are undertaking
training.
Awareness of and compliance
with all relevant G DOC policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of
the Practice.
Contributing to
evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Attending training, Practice
meetings and clinical meetings and events organised by the Practice, PCN, or
other agencies such as the ICB, where appropriate.
Contributing to audits and
written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and
receives the designated funding (e.g. Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF
audit etc.)
Treating colleagues with
courtesy and respect.
Complying with G DOCs values,
and the values of your practice/team.
Confidentiality
o
Comply with the Confidentiality Agreement.
Health & Safety
o
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, you have a personal
responsibility to have regard to your own and others safety.
o
You should familiarise yourself with fire exits at all sites where
you work, and the action that you should take in the event of a fire.
o
Personal alarms are available from G DOC for all GPs, wherever you
are working. Your site induction
should cover local procedures for summoning external help. Please ensure you
familiarise yourself with these local procedures.
o
You must comply with site Health and Safety procedures, including
those that concern clinical waste, use of hazardous substances, and the use
and disposal of sharps.
o
Health and safety hazards should be reported to the Practice
Manager.
o
You should dress appropriately and professionally. To reduce the risk of sharps injuries,
shoes should be closed (not open sandals).
o
You must ensure that your car is insured for commuting and home
visits.
o
GPs in Gloucestershire have been the victims of serious &
sustained stalking and violence. You
should not give anyone outside the Practice information about when and where
colleagues will be working. Refer any queries about rotas etc to the Practice
Manager or G DOC. Be aware that
stalkers may have knowledge of the local healthcare system and sound very
plausible.
Equality and Diversity
You
will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and
colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that
recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that
is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation;
- Respecting the privacy,
dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is everyones responsibility. You will:
- Ensure you are familiar with G DOCs safeguarding procedures
- Report all concerns promptly, following the safeguarding procedures
- Ensure that you maintain an appropriate level of safeguarding training
for your role
-
Contribute to meetings and other
safeguarding processes, as appropriate to your role.
Quality and Patient Safety
You
will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Comply with the General
Medical Councils Good Medical Practice.
- Alert other team members to
issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant
Event Analysis reviews
- Assess own performance and
take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision;
- Contribute to the
effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making
suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance;
- Work effectively other
agencies to meet patients needs;
- Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources.
- Avoid working if you are
impaired from doing so safely or effectively, for example due to illness.
- Avoid working excessive hours
that might impair your clinical performance, and ensure that you have
sufficient rest between Clinical Sessions.
You must not work a daytime clinical session for G DOC if you have
worked during the previous night, unless you have had at least eight hours
break between the two sessions.
- Ensure that any necessary
handover and follow up arrangements for patients have been made.
- Include work for G DOC in your
appraisal discussions, including any complaints or significant events in
which you have been involved, and audit results where provided.
- Inform G DOC if you have
concerns about a colleague that might affect patient safety
- Inform G DOC of any complaints
or significant events that have arisen from your work for G DOC, whether in
services directly provided by G DOC or for a third party provider.
- Participate in investigations
of any complaints or significant events that have arisen from your work for G
DOC in a timely manner, if asked to do so.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you are under investigation by the General Medical Council or NHS England
(e.g. the PAG), an employer or an ICB.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have any restrictions or conditions imposed on your practice by the
General Medical Council or NHS England (e.g. the PAG), or an ICB.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have been suspended or removed from the National Performers List.
- Inform G DOC within two
working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if
you have been charged with any criminal offence.
Communication
You
should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team
and will strive to:
- You
should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team
and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with
other team members, including through use of email, TeamNet and other agreed
communication channels;
- Communicate effectively with
patients and carers;
- Recognise peoples needs for
alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly i.e. signing and
use of telephone and face-to-face translators.
You will check your NHS email and TeamNet each working
day.
Contribution to the planning and
implementation of services
You
will:
Apply Practice policies,
standards and guidance;
- Discuss with other members of
the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work;
- Participate in audit
- Work with colleagues and the
management team to achieve standards of quality, performance standards,
budgets and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare.
- Contribute towards the
development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that
are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by
NHS England/ DoH/ ICB/new legislation etc.)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
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).