Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION Salaried GP

JOB TITLE:

Salaried GP

SALARY:

Dependant on experience

ACCOUNTABLE TO:

The Partners

RESPONSIBLE TO:

The Partners

TYPE OF CONTRACT:

Permanent (subject to successful probation period)

JOB SUMMARY

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. Responsibilities will reflect requirements of the NHS GP Contracts, and as such maybe subject to change as services continue to adapt.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. 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 face to face, telephone and online consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, 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

• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

• Providing health education.

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

• Recording clear and contemporaneous 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 in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

• Completion of medical reports (including NHS and private services as required)

1. Continuous Learning and Development

• Engage and remain up to date with all mandatory training, including but not limited to Safeguarding, Life Support, and Information Governance.

• Fully engage with the appraisal process both within the Practice and external.

• Remain fully up to date with Performers List Validation and GMC Registration, notifying the Practice Manager at the earliest opportunity of any risks to registration or possible restrictions to practice.

1. Communication

• Communicate effectively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to ensure the smooth running of the Practice.

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers

• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatments.

• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.

• Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues.

• Participate in meetings as required, including Practice meetings,

1. Organisation and Quality

• Recognise and work within own competence and the professional code of conduct for doctors as set out by the General Medical Council.

• Follow Practice policies, including Data Security and Safeguarding.

• Effectively manage own time and workload

• Deliver care to National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines, NHS/ICB policy and evidence-based care.

• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions either directly or under supervision.

• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of work, implementing improvements when required.

Participate in quality improvement initiatives, including Significant Event Analysis, peer reviews and the review of patient complaints.

• Cooperate fully and openly with the investigation of patient complaints (or other investigations), including drafting responses to complaints as appropriate.

• Support and work towards the achievements of national standards (e.g., Quality and Outcomes Framework), local NHS/ICB standards and Practice standards.

1. Teamwork

• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting other members of clinical and non-clinical staff in a flexible and approachable manner.

• Understand own role, scope within the organisation, and identify how this might develop over time.

• Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of services and referral mechanisms and policies to meet patient need.

• Participate in and support local projects or areas of work as agreed with the clinical management team, taking the lead as requested.

• Attend weekly GP/Management meetings

1. Responsibilities for Information Resources

• Review, enter and process data using accurate disease codes and good record structure to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring, financial and audit processes.

• Understand and follow the requirements of confidentiality (including the Data Protection Act and GDPR) and the Freedom of Information Act and to refer on any queries to the Practice Caldicott Guardian or Information Governance Lead as appropriate.

• Follow Practice policy regarding the use of email and computer tasks as the main internal method of non-verbal communication and the use of the intranet and internet as the main source of internal and external information, including the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition.

1. Equality and Diversity

• Act in ways that recognise the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with procedures.

Respect the privacy, dignity and beliefs of patients, carers, visitors, and co-workers, not discriminating against anyone and acting in line with Practice policy.

• Follow the Practice Chaperone policy.

• Be aware of statutory procedures, local guidance, and referral criteria regarding protection of children and vulnerable adults, including Practice policies. Follow the guidance and policies and act in an appropriate manner.

1. Health, Safety and Security

• Apply infection-control measures according to local and national guidelines.

• Use the personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.

• Assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients, and reporting any necessary issues to the Risk Manager.

• Follow Health and Safety policies and guidelines, including fire procedures and those pertaining to clinical areas of risk. Use safe working procedures and report incidents using the incident reporting system.

• Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

1. Other duties

• Give good and regular attendance.

• To function as an integral part of a developing team.

• To attend relevant meetings as required.

• To understand the practice equal opportunities policy.

• To undertake any further reasonable duties as agreed with the Practice Manager that are consistent with your level of training and experience.

Sessions, Rotas etc

GPs are expected to contribute to the working of the Practice in whatever way is necessary, and some flexibility is required in hours worked.

The week will be made up of a number of clinical sessions and these will include surgeries, prescriptions, visits, meetings, and administration. The practice operates an appointment-based system. Each standard clinical session contains 15 appointments, being a mixture of advance and book on the day remote and face-to face appointments of 10 minutes each.

There may also be occasions when additional emergency appointments within/at the end of a surgery are required, though these would be booked in agreement with the GP and would be allocated fairly across all GPs available at that time. These extra

appointments would not be expected to rise above 3 per person per surgery unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Where contractual working hours facilitate this, all GPs are required to be on an on call rota, responsible for late home visits or urgent queries throughout the day. These duties will be allocated fairly on a pro rata basis. All available GPs are expected to support the on call doctor in the event of high demand.

The post holder will normally work regular days/sessions each week, but this may vary according to holidays and other requirements of the rota, thus some flexibility is required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Refer to Person Spec for details

Desirable

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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

Witton Medical Centre

Address

29/31 Preston Old Road

Blackburn

Lancashire

BB2 2SU

Employer's website

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