Job summary
Salaried GP required for four sessions per week at Moreton Group Practice.
An excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking GP commencing May 2024.
Moreton Group Practice is an innovative GMS Training Practice serving the Moreton Community. Our practice team is committed to providing a high standard of clinical care. We achieve excellent QOF results and are rated Good in all areas by the Care Quality Commission.
We are active in our local Primary Care Network with one partner being a clinical director.
We have weekly Clinical/Educational and MDT meetings.
We are looking for a highly motivated doctor to join our team of GPs. We have a friendly, enthusiastic nursing team including practice nurses, Healthcare Assistants and phlebotomists. There is also a very supportive management and admin team.
Benefits of employment are; a competitive salary, NHS Pension Scheme, six weeks holiday, cover under group indemnity scheme and educational support based upon your needs.
Main duties of the job
The
purpose of the role is to provide a high quality and accessible GP service to
patients
The post-holder will deal
with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the
highest standards of care for all patients.
About us
Moreton Group Practice is a friendly and supportive organisation. We work hard to provide safe, high quality, patient centred care to all patients.
We have a well established clinical and admin team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
The post-holder will 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.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including triaging patients, surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, e-consultations, video consultation, visiting patients at home, checking and signing prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. This list is not exhaustive.
- The postholder will be expected to be flexible with regard to evening and weekend surgery hours
- The postholder is expected to cover the duty or admin doctor role weekly
- 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
- 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
- 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, referring, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- 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
- The post holder is expected to familiarise themselves with the practice’s clinical IT system and use it to the extent that is normally used in the practice. Record keeping must be maintained consistent with the practice’s protocols.
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
- Contributing to the achievement of maximum QOF points and Enhanced Service requirements
- Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
- Attending meetings including, but not exclusively, Primary Care Health Team Meetings, Referral/Prescribing meetings
Remuneration for any private work undertaken by the GP would go to the practice. This includes signing private medical certificates, insurance company/solicitor reports, DLA reports. However the Salaried GP is expected to complete DSS/DLA forms which do not attract any fee, are part of GP’s terms of service as long as the Salaried GP has access to the appropriate medical information.
Remuneration for Part II cremation certificates, performed outside of their working hours, will go to the GP.
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 organisation. 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 authorised 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:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and 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.
Personal/Professional Development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
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 enhance the team’s 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
- Make yourself an amenable person within the team
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognize people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
The post-holder will 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.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including triaging patients, surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, e-consultations, video consultation, visiting patients at home, checking and signing prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. This list is not exhaustive.
- The postholder will be expected to be flexible with regard to evening and weekend surgery hours
- The postholder is expected to cover the duty or admin doctor role weekly
- 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
- 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
- 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, referring, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- 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
- The post holder is expected to familiarise themselves with the practice’s clinical IT system and use it to the extent that is normally used in the practice. Record keeping must be maintained consistent with the practice’s protocols.
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
- Contributing to the achievement of maximum QOF points and Enhanced Service requirements
- Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
- Attending meetings including, but not exclusively, Primary Care Health Team Meetings, Referral/Prescribing meetings
Remuneration for any private work undertaken by the GP would go to the practice. This includes signing private medical certificates, insurance company/solicitor reports, DLA reports. However the Salaried GP is expected to complete DSS/DLA forms which do not attract any fee, are part of GP’s terms of service as long as the Salaried GP has access to the appropriate medical information.
Remuneration for Part II cremation certificates, performed outside of their working hours, will go to the GP.
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 organisation. 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 authorised 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:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and 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.
Personal/Professional Development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
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 enhance the team’s 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
- Make yourself an amenable person within the team
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognize people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- On the GP Medical Register with a Licence to practice
Desirable
- Experience of working as a GP
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- On the GP Medical Register with a Licence to practice
Desirable
- Experience of working as a GP
Experience
Essential
Desirable
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).