Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will

make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery

consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, 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

• 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

• Developing 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

• Providing counselling and health education

• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

• Ensuring appropriate follow up of patients

• Recording clear and contemporaneous computerised 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 generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the

Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice

(as defined by British National Formulary guidance)

• Working with and support other members of the primary health care team in

delivering high quality primary care

• Promoting the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal

College of General Practice, General Medical Council, Department of Health,

and local NHS trust

• Participate in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key

performance indicator targets as required.

• Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, such as a QOF, Enhanced Services, Commissioning, and CQC as required.

• 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 Practice policies/guidelines,

e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

• Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality

standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key Performance Indicator

targets as required.

• A commitment to life-long learning and evidence-based best

Practice

• Champion Parksides Motto, Values and Ethos in all activities

• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the

Organisation

• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

• Attendance at regular in-house governance and educational meetings and

training as well as events at other agencies as appropriate

• Assistance with the training of other staff members and also with the education

of doctors and nurses as appropriate

• Contribution to research studies and involvement as required

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 doctor you will have access to confidential information relating to

patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. 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 practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice 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 GP partners

• 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 GP partners

• 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

• 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 the GP partners

• Undertaking periodic infection control training

• 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.

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 nonjudgmental

and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post holder will maintain continued education through attendance at any courses

and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements

for appraisal and revalidation are met. This may include training needed for areas of

Practice Development.

This should include:

• 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.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

• 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 with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within

the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers

• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and

respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder 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 where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MB ChB
• MRCGP

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Parkside Medical Centre

Address

187 Northmoor Road

Manchester

M12 5RU

Employer's website

https://www.parksidemedical.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)