Salaried GP - Remote position

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care as set by the regulatory and standard setting organisations, including but not limited to the points below. In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post holder will undertake a variety of duties.

The duties of the post holder are to provide a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include: remote consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, video consultations, prescribing (including checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries), patient test results, patient medical reports on behalf of the Practice as well as referral letters and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.

As a salaried GP for Beacon you would be expected to support the partners of Beacon Medical Group in providing all Primary Medical Services in line with contractual and regulatory frameworks. There is also an expectation that you will support the Board and Beacon Medical Groups vision encompassing the 5 Year Forward Plan and diversification of services outside the core business.

As a Group we want to build our reputation. As you are an integral part of us, it is expected that you will help support and input into the aims of the Group in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the Board.

As a member of our clinical team it is expected that you maintain and keep good standards of clinical records on SystmOne and abide by Group policy, clinical templates and protocols at all times. We can provide full training if you feel that you would like more support and will ensure that you are fully up to speed on our processes for record keeping.

Clinical Duties

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including; remote consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, video consultations, prescribing (including checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries), patient test results, patient medical reports on behalf of the Practice as well as referral letters and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.

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.

Clinical duties will include consulting people with acute conditions, on-going chronic conditions which may also include reviews based on the QOF and you will be expected to add the relevant coding to any patient file and report any errors. The Group will provide any QOF training on request.

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards using IT systems. Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions including EPS.

Prescribe in accordance with locally agreed or nationally agreed prescribing formulary. Work in accordance with all relevant clinical guidelines, pathways and protocols, including agreed standard data entry processes.

Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals and you will be providing remote consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, plus you will take your share of extra consultations where demand is excessive in line with practice operational procedures.

It is expected that you deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time.

In the interests of patient care we strongly believe in the benefit of continuity of care. This means that you are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your allocated clinical list of patients and also those that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries related to your consultations), in line with good practice as recommended by GMC.

The post holder may have tasks or responsibilities delegated to them, appropriate to their level of competence. They may also be expected to delegate tasks or responsibilities to other staff, as appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Be a qualified GP with full registration with the GMC and included on the NHS Performers List

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

Beacon Medical Group

Address

Mudge Way

Plymouth

PL7 1AD

Employer's website

https://www.beaconmedicalgroup.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)