Job responsibilities
This job plan outlines the employees normal
duties, workload and important non-clinical roles undertaken within paid work
time.
Mill Road Surgery encourages working as a team as
we feel this only enhances existing skillsets and enriches the team. This plan
is therefore subject to review and should be used as a guideline.
Job Plan
The daily arrangements for Salaried GP work
sessions are as follows:
Morning Session 8.30 am 12.40 am
Afternoon Session 1:50 pm 6:00 pm (can be
adjusted to suit)
Whole Days Monday and Thursday or Monday and
Wednesday
Total of average weekly sessions: 4
Frequency of appointments: 15 minutes
Number of appointments: 13 x 15 minute
consultations per clinic with breaks. One admin slot at the end of each
clinical session.
Individual clinicians are expected to take
responsibility for their clinics running to time and corresponding with
colleagues when this is not possible, including informing Reception. Where needed additional catch up/break slots
can be incorporated into sessions to assist.
Duties
Proposed Duties
The workload of the Practice is shared jointly by
the clinicians available on the day. The
salaried GP is expected to take part in the share of clinical duties including
the below list. The needs of the patient
population and demand should be taken into consideration, meaning this list is
not exhaustive and is subject to review and amendment by mutual agreement.
Clinical
Duties
Appointments, visits, dealing with queries from patients or other health care
professionals.
Home Visits (if appropriate and
agreed): These are shared and assigned amongst the GP team or the Specialist
Practitioner such as PCN paramedic (if available) present on the day, if
patient appropriate and depending on workload.
Remote
Consultations- Some of your clinics may be required to be taken via remote
consultation using the approved technology.
Remote consultations are expected to take place in the Practice.
Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly
from own and Practice caseload (referrals, investigations, results). The Salaried GP is responsible for his/her/their
own patient associated referrals, correspondence, administration and
paperwork. They will be expected to take
a share of general incoming clinical correspondence (scanned documents), repeat
prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks (patient enquiries and
phone calls). Protected time for
administrative work will be reimbursed e.g. one session every month for a GP
working 5 clinical sessions.
QoF &
Clinical Read-coding Opportunistic and Ad-Hoc QoF monitoring, ensuring accurate clinical
read-coding, using templates where available, to assist with Surgery contractual
compliance and monitoring. The Salaried
GP is responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the practice protocols
and procedures surrounding the collection of data, PPA and invoicing for
private or NHS chargeable (i.e QOF, Enhanced Services etc) to ensure that the
Practice is reimbursed accordingly. Ardens
templates should be used as appropriate to ensure accurate data quality in
consultation.
Team Meetings The Salaried GP will be
expected to attend relevant Practice meetings on their working days, essential
to the delivery of team-based care, discussing clinical practice standards,
developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for individual
practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with PCN colleagues
including multidisciplinary team and educational meetings. We strongly
encourage salaried GP to participate Practice meetings on their non-working day
if possible.
Private
reports/medical insurance The Salaried GP will be expected to carry out a share of non-NHS
(Private) work with the admin slots given.
Any non-NHS fees GPRs and private consultations are retained by Mill
Road Surgery Partnership. All non-NHS
work should be invoiced according to Practice private fee guidelines.
Audits All staff are expected
to instigate and partake in the audit process including initiating and running
cyclical audits to assist in providing quality of care for patients.
Personal CPD The Salaried GP is
expected to keep up to date with all Practice Protocols and Policies associated
with their job role including compulsory training like BLS, safeguarding
training. Professional CPD is expected to be maintained by the Salaried GP as
part of the revalidation process. The
Practice will support personal CPD. This may include a mix of in-house meetings
and events, time away from the practice, either in private (study) study,
attending educational events or through the Practice study leave allowance.
Clinical
Supervision & Colleague Education As a Teaching Practice, you will be expected you
to help supervising our F2 Doctors/GP trainees where appropriate and to take
part in mentoring Student Placements where you have been allocated to do
so. Should this be the case, protected
time will be allocated to facilitate this as agreed and shown on the rota.
From time to time to assist with planning annual
leave or unexpected leave such as sick leave, there may be the requirement to
act as Principal GP in a lone working or locum tandem capacity. This will be agreed by prior arrangement
where possible and will not take place until the Salaried GP and the Practice
Partners are mutually confident that it is within the scope and competency of
the Salaried GP and within a comfortable tolerance of anticipated
workload.