Salaried GP - ARRS (Newly Qualified)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and administrative responsibilities:

• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
• Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Check, read and interpret pathological results for patients
• Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
• Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards
• Participate in clinical audits, and learning event analyses and practice meetings
• Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and enhanced services.
• Appropriate use of read codes.
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
• Prescribe appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance)
• Work with and provide support for other members of the primary health care team
• Play a lead role in the practice achieving agreed and other key performance indicator targets
• Participate in team meetings and patient engagement events

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
• Maintain current and annual certification, e.g. CPR, Fire Safety, Information Governance.
• Ensure training and development is up-to-date using various training methods, on-line, group, conference.
• Ensure study leave allocation is utilised and planned accordingly.
• Provide health education to colleagues, e.g. audits, participation in educational meetings.

PCN & Practice Organisation:

• Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence.
• Attendance at in-house meetings, significant event audit meetings and others as deemed necessary.
• Ensure that the PCN/practice complaints system is adhered to at all times.
• Awareness and compliance with all relevant guidelines e.g. data protection, confidentiality and health and safety.

Person Specification

Personal qualities

Essential

• Observance of strict confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to listen and empathise
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Competent time management and organisational skills
• Adaptable and forward looking with problem solving and a 'solutions focused' approach
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development
• Computer literate

Desirable

• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area

Experience

Desirable

• Experience with using EMIS

Qualifications

Essential

• The applicant must be a qualified GP with full GMC registration licence to practice, on a performers list and have a UK drivers licence
• Newly qualified GP (no more than 2 years qualified) with no previous substantive post, or due to qualify within the next 3 months

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Prestbury Medical Practice

Address

Wolverhampton North Network

Prestbury Medical Practice, Broadway, Bushbury

Wolverhampton

WV10 8EA

Employer's website

https://www.prestburymedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)