Salaried GP

Job responsibilities

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.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone 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
• Opportunistic assessment of patients health, where appropriate, i.e. blood pressure monitoring, to assist with meeting QOF targets.
• 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 counselling and health education.
• Assisting with the processing of medical insurance reports and blue badge applications/reports for benefits etc.
• 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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety etc.
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Experience

Essential

• Undertaking Face to face consultations
• Managing Home visits
• Ability to work under pressure, manage a demanding workload
• Aware of needs of patients, relatives and carers.
• Adhere to confidentiality requirements. Ability to code with patients under extreme stress from both social and clinical circumstances
• Ability to handle change and unexpected urgent requirements

Desirable

• Experience of management of Chronic disease in the community.
• Knowledge and experience of working to targets in General Practice (e.g. QOF)
• Demonstrate competence in the use of key IT applications (at least MS Word, email, web browser competent but not expert.
• Previous experience working with Patient Record Systems (e.g. EMIS)

Qualifications

Essential

• Must be fully qualified GP with full GMC registration.
• Must be on the Medical Performers List. (never been removed from a performers list for detrimental reasons)
• Full membership to medical indemnity organisation

Desirable

• No history of professional misconduct as determined by the GMC.
• No current restrictions imposed by the GMC.

Other Qualities/Attributes

Essential

• Flexible, caring and empathetic.
• Self-Motivated and a Professional approach.
• Reliable, punctual and committed to work.
• Understanding of Equality and Diversity.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Personal Clinical Indemnity.
• Holder of full driving licence.

Desirable

• Non Smoker

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).