Job summary
An exciting
opportunity is available for a motivated and compassionate GP to join our
dynamic practice. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a
wide range of primary care services, including acute consultations, chronic
disease management, home visits, and reviewing and actioning results. This role
offers the opportunity to work with a forward-thinking practice with friendly staff and strong support network. This role is for 4 sessions over Thursday and Friday's.
Main duties of the job
Provide high-quality clinical care to patients, including consultations,
examinations, treatments, follow-up, and referrals where indicated.
Manage long-term conditions, offering advice and treatment plans
tailored to individual patient needs.
Participate in practice meetings, audits, and clinical governance
activities to ensure continuous improvement.
Engage in professional development to stay updated with the latest
medical guidelines and best practices.
Contribute to the
practice's quality improvement initiatives and help shape the future direction
of the practice
About us
We are a multi-disciplinary team of hard-working individuals who thrive on providing the best possible service to our patients. As part of a collaborative of eight practices we have access to a varied team of practitioners. We are a GP training practice with a big ethos on training and developing people. We accommodate 3 yr & 5th yr medical students / PA students / Pre-reg pharmacy students and soon to be nurse students. In-house we have a great team of admin, reception, nursing and clinical staff. We are highly commended in patient surveys and a high QOF achievement. Both our principle GP and practice manager are on the PCN steering group ( leaders team) influencing the direction of patient services.
Job description
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 him / herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage calls, triage visits, checking and signing of repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- Respond to medical problems presented by temporary residents as required.
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organization.
- 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.
- To assist in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions.
- Completion of clinically related administrative and non clinical duties needed for the delivery of the service.
- Providing counseling and health education.
- Refer patients for further opinions and interventions according to Practice protocols
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions wherever possible).
- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary 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.
- Support the practice partners in debriefing GP registrars / PCN staff.
- Support the practice by allowing shadowing opportunities for students / work experience.
Maintaining, monitoring and updating computer database and management of medical records and practice audits
Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and Enhanced Services.
- Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and Enhanced Services.
- Appropriate use of read codes.
- Participating in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits
- Participating in the auditing of practice activity
Practice Organisation
Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence
- Attendance at in-house meetings, significant event audit meetings and others as deemed necessary
- Ensure that the practice complaints system is adhered to at all times
- Awareness and compliance with all relevant guidelines e.g. GDPR, data protection, confidentiality and health and safety
- Maintain current CPR and anaphylaxis certification
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organization. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorized persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
- The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Providing information regarding immune consent with particular regard to Hepatitis B status
- Identifying the risk involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Using appropriate infection control procedures particularly those relating to needle-stick injuries, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Ensuring that all accident or dangerous accidents are reported and investigated, and follow up action taken where necessary.
Equality and Diversity
- The post-holder will support the quality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.
Quality
- The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhanced the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
- The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers via all communication methods such as AccuRX, Patches or similar.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Participate in the Tolson Care Partnership Network in absence of lead GP
Job description
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 him / herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage calls, triage visits, checking and signing of repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- Respond to medical problems presented by temporary residents as required.
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organization.
- 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.
- To assist in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions.
- Completion of clinically related administrative and non clinical duties needed for the delivery of the service.
- Providing counseling and health education.
- Refer patients for further opinions and interventions according to Practice protocols
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions wherever possible).
- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary 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.
- Support the practice partners in debriefing GP registrars / PCN staff.
- Support the practice by allowing shadowing opportunities for students / work experience.
Maintaining, monitoring and updating computer database and management of medical records and practice audits
Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and Enhanced Services.
- Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and Enhanced Services.
- Appropriate use of read codes.
- Participating in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits
- Participating in the auditing of practice activity
Practice Organisation
Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence
- Attendance at in-house meetings, significant event audit meetings and others as deemed necessary
- Ensure that the practice complaints system is adhered to at all times
- Awareness and compliance with all relevant guidelines e.g. GDPR, data protection, confidentiality and health and safety
- Maintain current CPR and anaphylaxis certification
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organization. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorized persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
- The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Providing information regarding immune consent with particular regard to Hepatitis B status
- Identifying the risk involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Using appropriate infection control procedures particularly those relating to needle-stick injuries, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Ensuring that all accident or dangerous accidents are reported and investigated, and follow up action taken where necessary.
Equality and Diversity
- The post-holder will support the quality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.
Quality
- The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhanced the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
- The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers via all communication methods such as AccuRX, Patches or similar.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Participate in the Tolson Care Partnership Network in absence of lead GP
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible to Practice independently as a GP in the UK
- Full GMC Registration with GP Registration
- Entry onto the Medical Performers List
- Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years
- Excellent communication skills
- General understanding of the GMS contract, and in particular the QOF
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
- Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense & initiative
- Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
- Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
- Able to work under pressure
Desirable
- MRCGP
- Qualified GP Trainer
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- Knowledge of PCN's & collaborative working.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible to Practice independently as a GP in the UK
- Full GMC Registration with GP Registration
- Entry onto the Medical Performers List
- Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years
- Excellent communication skills
- General understanding of the GMS contract, and in particular the QOF
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
- Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense & initiative
- Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
- Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
- Able to work under pressure
Desirable
- MRCGP
- Qualified GP Trainer
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- Knowledge of PCN's & collaborative working.
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).
Additional information
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).
