Salaried GP

Job responsibilities

Patient Care

In accordance with the Practice session timetable, you will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery and telephone consultations (including a fair share of the extended hours rota), visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports, and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Take the lead role of responsible duty doctor as part of a rota.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

Support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPs and nurses with clinical queries.

Represent the practice at CQC and NHS/ICB quality monitoring inspections if required.

Adhere to safeguarding requirements and deal appropriately with complaints, incidents and alerts using practice systems and policies.

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collect data for audit purposes and for compliance with QOF requirements.

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

Reflect and assess own and team performance.

Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs in a person-centered way.

Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.

Leadership and Development

Lead on clinical areas and projects to develop the practice and enhance offerings to patients operationally and strategically.

Mentor and provide clinical supervision for a multi-disciplinary team, which may include nursing and administrative teams.

Commit to learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.

Meet CPD requirements and keep personal, mandatory and/or organisational training up to date, including any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment.

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

Operational Delivery

Support the practice in achieving contractual targets by leading on areas and mentoring staff who also lead on areas.

Participate and lead in opportunities for new or expanding services at the surgery to support the practice development plan.

Make suggestions and act on ways to improve and enhance the team or practices performance using own, colleagues or patient feedback to promote You Said, We Listened, We Took Action.

Engagement

Maintain mutually beneficial working relationships with all stakeholders, for example NHSE, ICB, CQC, Local Authorities, LMC etc.

Participate in the PPG and attend PPG meetings where required.

Communicate effectively with other team members, patients, and carers.

Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate level of primary care experience.
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities.
• MBBS or equivalent medical degree.
• Full registration with GMC (including GP Register).
• Inclusion on National Performers List.
• Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Analytical Thinking.

Desirable

• GP trainer or educational supervisor.
• Competence in minor surgery and DFSRH/ LOC and ability to train others in these.
• Evidence of leadership in current role e.g. mentoring, leading, safeguarding, prescribing domains or responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of continued professional development.
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
• General understanding of the [GMS/PMS/APMS] contract.
• Outstanding level of clinical knowledge and skills commensurate with that of an experienced GP.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Strong IT skills.
• Clear, polite telephone manner.
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook.
• SystmOne user skills.
• Effective time management (planning and organising).
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure.
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes.
• Experience with clinical risk management.

Desirable

• Experience of medicines management.
• Experience of ICB initiatives.

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).