Job responsibilities
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
Salaried GP
Job Plan
Job Title: Salaried GP
Qualification: MBBS or equivalent
and MRCGP
Reports to: The Partners of the Practice for clinical matters
The
Practice Manager for admin matters
Hours: 2/3 Sessions per week
Job Summary
The
job plan is the document that translates the expectations of the employee and the
employer into a working schedule. It
ensures that the post delivers its aims and that requirements of the contract
of employment are met.
It
is essential to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role
and has the ability to work as an effective person within our team.
We
regard ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member of the team is
important and receives due respect regardless of position.
It
is our common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our
patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.
Duties and
Responsibilities
Sessions: 2/3 Sessions per week
Length
of session: 4 hours 10 minutes
Duties of the
post are to provide a full range of General Medical Services (GMS) as contained
within the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will
include home visits as deemed appropriate.
The post holder
is expected to support the partners of Houghton Medical Group in providing all
services outlined in the GMS Core Contract and in the aims and objective of the
Practice.
The post holder
is expected to support and input into the aims of the practice 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 practice. Your
performance in each area will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if
appropriate.
The post holder
is expected to always maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical
records. Full involvement in any
practice training is expected.
The post holder
is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.
Review of
Plan
The
Job Plan will be reviewed after 3 and 6 months of employment and will be
developed collaboratively between the employer and employee. After this time, it will be subject to annual
review, or when there any significant changes to the work pattern suggested by
either party.
Scheduling
in the Job Plan
- Clinical duties: 2/3
sessions each week session times to be discussed
- Increasingly the
practice is called upon to provide telephone consultations and the standard is
that one appointment can be converted to a telephone consultation should this
be clinically appropriate and the patient's choice.
- Appointments are
scheduled at 15-minute intervals, and you will provide 13 face to face
consultations per session.
- You will be
required to make one home visit within the session time specified if required
and to be involved in the morning home visit triage rota.
- You will be
expected to deal, on a daily basis, with telephone queries from patients or
other health care professional in your administrative time.
- You are expected
to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own allocated
batch of patients and those that you have generated yourself (investigations
and queries related to your consultations).
- Clinical duties
will include seeing people with acute and ongoing chronic conditions.
Administration/Paperwork
- The Partners believe that the job plan allows
sufficient time to complete all administrative duties related to your clinical
work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at different rates.
- Referrals should be completed on a daily basis
in line with practice policy.
- Investigations and referrals should be completed,
and associated documents dealt with within appropriate timescales.
- Results are normally communicated either
electronically or by letter. You will be
expected to action these on a daily basis for your patients. You will also take
a share in dealing with the daily post including correspondence addressed to
you and a share of the workload for absent clinicians using the buddy system in
place.
- Reports: You will be expected to complete
examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the
GMS contract on patients known to you.
Additionally, you may be expected to complete reports requested by other
parties such as insurance companies and employers.
- Computerised records: You will be expected to use appropriate processes for
computerised record keeping including computerised clinical templates and
protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as determined by the
practice recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains.
Practice
Meetings
Primary
Care Team meetings, formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team-based
care are held from time to time at the surgery and you will have a close
working relationship with the primary care team on a regular basis. These
meetings would include child and adult safeguarding, palliative care, clinical
governance, QOF etc.
The
practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence-based medicine and
supporting colleagues in achieving this.
You will be expected to participate in discussions on clinical practice
standards, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit,
significant event analysis etc. Where
these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be
required.
Other Areas
of responsibly
- Additional sessions: The Practice may agree
with a practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified
in his or her Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions
thereof. The extra session(s) shall be
remunerated as agreed with the partners.
- This list of responsibilities is not
exhaustive and may include any other duties in so far as they are reasonable.
