Salaried GP- 4-6 Sessions per week

Job responsibilities

As a member of the Practice Clinical Team you will:

• Provide primary healthcare services to Patients in all required environments.
• Participate in Practice activities including clinical and staff meetings, audits, and relevant CPD activities;
• Have a role in the development of the Practice.
• Contribute to the Practices activities relating to its functions of training and research

You will be expected to:

• Undertake Consultations in all clinical settings as directed. These consultations will cover the breadth of the Practices GMS and Enhanced Service obligations and you will be expected to support the Partners in providing such services as outlined in the GMS Contract and any national, directed or local enhanced services.
• Maintain and keep good standards of clinical records at all times and to work within Practice policy for prescribing. Additionally, you will be required to work to the systems and processes developed by the Practice both clinical and non-clinical (e.g. Path Lab results and comments, appropriate read coding and so on) and contribute towards the efficient and effective management of such systems.
• Required to give due regard to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) and contribute to achieving maximum points in all areas.
• Share the daily responsibility of checking and signing prescription requests, dealing with patient queries and providing clinical supervision to the nursing team, registrars, medical students and support to the management team and administrative staff as appropriate.
• Support and input into the aims of the Practice in areas including clinical governance, best practice, clinical audits and any other improvement activity as determined by the Practice.
• Participate in immunisation and vaccination programmes for individual patients in line with local and national guidelines.
• Administer First Aid including resuscitation if required.
• Receive and refer patients when appropriate.
• Understand and adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Practice.
• Update the computerised records by coding activities appropriately and at the time of the consultation, using templates where appropriate and comply with computer based information requirements.
• Join in a duty rota system within the clinical team, share visiting patients and cover for colleagues by undertaking extra shifts when required to ensure the service requirements are met.
• Any other duties that may be required of you to ensure service requirements are met.

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO CONSTANT CHANGING NEEDS WITHIN THE WORK SITUATION AND WILL BE REVIEWED ANNUALLY IN CONSULTATION WITH THE POST HOLDER

Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for
• strict confidentiality
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and initiative
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own
• workload priorities
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
• Pleasant and articulate
• Forward thinking
• Able to work under pressure

Qualifications

Essential

• Eligible to Practice independently as a GP in the UK
• Full GMC Registration with GP Registration
• Entry onto the Medical Performers List

Desirable

• MRCGP
• Qualified GP Trainer

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge/Skills
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years
• General understanding of the GMS contract, and in particular the Quality and Outcomes Framework
• IT skills:
• - Word processing
• - Spreadsheet applications
• - Email

Other

Essential

• Car driver/clean licence
• Membership of a recognised medical indemnity organisation
• Flexibility of working hours/ able to work at the desired times
• Willingness to attend occasional meetings away from the
• Practice

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).