Job summary
We are looking for a newly
qualified/experienced, enthusiastic and motivated GP to join our dedicated
team.
You would be joining a friendly
and dynamic practice team who serve a practice population of over 5800 patients
and aim to deliver modern primary care with the traditional feel of general
practice.
Salary: £10,000 per session, 4 sessions days with be negotiable
Preferably to start in February 2024
BMA model based contract
Main duties of the job
Provide high quality patient
care
Carry out surgery, telephone and
video consultations and undertake home visits
Liaise with other team members
and organisations involved in patient care and respond promptly to queries
Investigate and refer patients
as appropriate in line with current guidance
Deal promptly with results and
correspondence
Provide cover as required when
other GPs are on leave
Collect data for audit and QOF
purposes
Excellent communication with
patients and carers
Attend clinical, clinical
governance and educational meetings
Strong team player
Strong collaborative working
relationships with partners and all team members
Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources
Attend required training events
e.g. PLT and feedback
Reporting of Significant
Incidents involving the practice
About us
Kingsway Surgery is a friendly GP Surgery. We are a training practice looking for a part time salaried GP to join our team.
We are 20 mins from Liverpool city centre with good motorway links.
We are a GMS practice comprising of a clinical teamof 2 GP partners supported by an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a Practice Nurse and Healthcare Assistant. The systems with use are EMIS web, AccuRx, PATCHS and Arden's templates.
We are very patient centred and have a good relationship with the patients many of whom we have known for generations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high quality patient care including prevention, screening, treatment, management of chronic conditions and health promotion
- Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice protocols as well as wider guidance e.g. NICE
- Carry out surgery, telephone and video consultations and undertake home visits
- Speak and see patients promptly and in a timely manner. In order to minimise waiting times.
- Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
- Generate, check and sign acute and repeat prescriptions in-line with practice policy
- Transfer patients, where appropriate, to the repeat dispensing system
- Liaise with other team members and organisations involved in patient care and respond promptly to queries
- Investigate and refer patients as appropriate in line with current guidance
- Deal promptly with results and correspondence, clearly communicating any actions that are required
- Provide cover as needed, for all of the above, when other GPs are on leave
- When providing care ensure the judicious use of resources and NHS funds
- Keep clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes and patient records to agreed standards and in-line with practice policies
- Collect data for audit and QOF purposes
- Prescribe generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice formulary, commissioning and national guidance
- Maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers to ensure effective delivery of care
Other day to day Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- Demonstrate an awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant Practice policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF, prescribing targets and other agreed performance Indicator targets
- Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to clinical governance processes including significant event review
- Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning, audit and evidence-based best practice
- Contribute to evaluation and audit within the practice
- Attend and demonstrate commitment to, clinical, clinical governance and educational meetings, ensure that accurate records and minutes are kept and circulated and that action points from previous meetings have been addressed
- Show responsiveness to other doctors and team members working with you at any given time with regard to sharing of workload
- Assist with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate
- Develop and promote positive collaborative working relationships with partners and all team members
- Liaise with all relevant agencies and services to promote knowledge and awareness of services in the practice and local community
- Complete patient reports within a timely manner
- Take responsibility for own personal development and participate fully in the GP appraisal scheme
- Raise with management if you identify concerns about the health or performance of a colleague or team member
- 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
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Review all practice-related e-mails and respond promptly to these
- Take responsibility for audits as required
- Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, such as a QOF, Enhanced Services, etc. This includes staying abreast of new guidelines and evidence, developing policies in-line with these and communicating these to the practice team.
- Provide support to the practice manager as required e.g. complaints or governance issues, CCG/NHSE related issues.
- Contribute in developing new areas of work, improving existing services and attending team meetings as required.
- Attend required training events e.g. PLT and feedback key learning points to the team
- Reporting of Significant Incidents involving the practice
- Manage own health and stress and alert partners and practice manager promptly if any health issues arise that may impact on personal performance
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. As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers. You 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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health,
safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice
- guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities
- in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and
colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes 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
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high quality patient care including prevention, screening, treatment, management of chronic conditions and health promotion
- Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice protocols as well as wider guidance e.g. NICE
- Carry out surgery, telephone and video consultations and undertake home visits
- Speak and see patients promptly and in a timely manner. In order to minimise waiting times.
- Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
- Generate, check and sign acute and repeat prescriptions in-line with practice policy
- Transfer patients, where appropriate, to the repeat dispensing system
- Liaise with other team members and organisations involved in patient care and respond promptly to queries
- Investigate and refer patients as appropriate in line with current guidance
- Deal promptly with results and correspondence, clearly communicating any actions that are required
- Provide cover as needed, for all of the above, when other GPs are on leave
- When providing care ensure the judicious use of resources and NHS funds
- Keep clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes and patient records to agreed standards and in-line with practice policies
- Collect data for audit and QOF purposes
- Prescribe generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice formulary, commissioning and national guidance
- Maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers to ensure effective delivery of care
Other day to day Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- Demonstrate an awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant Practice policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF, prescribing targets and other agreed performance Indicator targets
- Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to clinical governance processes including significant event review
- Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning, audit and evidence-based best practice
- Contribute to evaluation and audit within the practice
- Attend and demonstrate commitment to, clinical, clinical governance and educational meetings, ensure that accurate records and minutes are kept and circulated and that action points from previous meetings have been addressed
- Show responsiveness to other doctors and team members working with you at any given time with regard to sharing of workload
- Assist with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate
- Develop and promote positive collaborative working relationships with partners and all team members
- Liaise with all relevant agencies and services to promote knowledge and awareness of services in the practice and local community
- Complete patient reports within a timely manner
- Take responsibility for own personal development and participate fully in the GP appraisal scheme
- Raise with management if you identify concerns about the health or performance of a colleague or team member
- 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
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Review all practice-related e-mails and respond promptly to these
- Take responsibility for audits as required
- Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, such as a QOF, Enhanced Services, etc. This includes staying abreast of new guidelines and evidence, developing policies in-line with these and communicating these to the practice team.
- Provide support to the practice manager as required e.g. complaints or governance issues, CCG/NHSE related issues.
- Contribute in developing new areas of work, improving existing services and attending team meetings as required.
- Attend required training events e.g. PLT and feedback key learning points to the team
- Reporting of Significant Incidents involving the practice
- Manage own health and stress and alert partners and practice manager promptly if any health issues arise that may impact on personal performance
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. As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers. You 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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health,
safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice
- guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities
- in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and
colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes 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
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A vocational trained and accredited GP, preferably MRCGP Current registration with the GMC Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to work with limited supervision. IT proficiency and familiarity with primary care clinical systems (the practice use EMIS Web). Excellent time keeping, exceptional team player, good understanding of GMS contracting requirements and QOF
Desirable
- Good understanding of GMS contracting requirements and QOF
- Experience and an interest in a specific disease area
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A vocational trained and accredited GP, preferably MRCGP Current registration with the GMC Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to work with limited supervision. IT proficiency and familiarity with primary care clinical systems (the practice use EMIS Web). Excellent time keeping, exceptional team player, good understanding of GMS contracting requirements and QOF
Desirable
- Good understanding of GMS contracting requirements and QOF
- Experience and an interest in a specific disease area
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).
