Northlands Surgery

Salaried GP

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Job summary

Northlands Surgery is a growing practice with an increasing list size, and we are looking for an additional GP to join our friendly and supportive practice team for 6 sessions per week (this is negotiable for the right candidate).

Our purpose-built practice is situated in the historic market town of Calne, nestled in the countryside between Chippenham and Marlborough. Just 15 minutes from the M4 motorway, half hour from Bath. We pride ourselves on providing high quality, patient-centred care with a strong team-working ethos.

For an informal discussion please contact Jo Osborn Practice Manager on 01249 813399.

Main duties of the job

The primary focus of this role is to help deliver safe and effective patient care to the patients at Northlands Surgery.

The post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultation, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries and clinical paperwork.

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 problem

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients in line with current practice disease management protocols

About us

Team Northlands is a busy, friendly and supportive training practice in the heart of beautiful Wiltshire.

13,700 list size

Training practice

SystmOne / Ardens

High QOF achievement

Experienced clinical team

Excellent admin support

Actively involved in our ICB and PCN

Thriving Patient Participation Group

Independent pharmacy attached.

For more information about us and our services, please go to www.northlands-surgery.co.uk

Details

Date posted

15 July 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11,000 a session

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A4487-24-0005

Job locations

North Street

Calne

Wiltshire

SN11 0HH


Job description

Job responsibilities

The daily arrangements for Salaried GP work a full day is as follows:

Morning Session 8:30am 1:15pm 4 hours 45 minutes

1 hour admin

3 hour and 15 minutes of appointments (13 x 15-minute appointments)

30-minute visit (1 x 30 min visits)

Afternoon Session 2.30pm 6pm 3 hours 35 minutes

50 minutes admin

2 hours 45 minutes of appointments (11 x 15-minute appointments)

Total 8 hours 20 minutes per day.

Frequency of appointments: 15 minutes

Number of appointments: 24 x 15 minute consultations per day and 1 x 30 minute visit.

Total 25 patient contacts.

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 slots can be incorporated into sessions to assist.

Duties

The workload of the Surgery 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 medical practice should be taken into consideration, meaning this list is not exhaustive and is subject to review and amendment by mutual agreement.

Duty Dr Undertake duty doctor role as scheduled based on a fair shares system.

Enhanced Access Hours Undertake enhanced access hours as scheduled based on a fair shares system.

Clinical Duties Appointments, visits, dealing with queries from patients or other health care professionals.

Home Visits (if appropriate and agreed): These are shared amongst the GP team or the Paramedic Practitioner or ANP 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. Where operational standards are met for home working, remote clinics can be carried out at your place of residence or some other agreed place outside of the Practice as agreed with the Practice Manager.

Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly from own and Practice caseload (referrals, investigations, results). The Salaried GP is responsible for their own patient associated referrals, correspondence, administration and paperwork. They will be expected to take a share of practice general incoming clinical correspondence (scanned documents), repeat prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks (patient enquiries and phone calls).

QoF & Clinical Read coding Opportunistic and Ad-Hoc QoF monitoring, ensuring accurate clinical read coding, using templates where available, to assist with Practice contractual compliance and monitoring. The Salaried GP is responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the 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.

Meetings The Salaried GP will be expected to attend relevant Practice meetings, 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. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis adjustment to clinical workload may be required.

Private reports/medical insurance/crem fees etc The Salaried GP will be expected to carry out a share of non-NHS (Private) work. Any non-NHS fees such as Crem Fees, GPRs and private consultations are retained by Northlands Surgery. The Practice Manager should be notified of any such direct requests from patients/outside agencies and this work will be cascaded to the GP team via the Practice Secretaries. All non-NHS work should be invoiced according to Practice non-nhs fee guidelines and Dr Discretion is not applicable unless by agreement of the Practice Partners.

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.

From time to time to assist with planning annual leave/sickness etc, there may be the requirement to act as Principle 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.

Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly from own and Practice caseload (referrals, investigations, results). The Salaried GP is responsible for his own patient associated correspondence, administration, and paperwork. They will be expected to take a share of filing practice general incoming clinical correspondence (scanned documents), repeat prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks (patient enquiries and phone calls).

Personal CPD The Salaried GP is expected to keep up to date with all Practice Protocols and Policies associated with their job role including the Practices own Bluestream Online Training program. 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, attending educational events or through the Practice study leave allowance.

Clinical Supervision & Colleague Education As a Senior Clinician, you will be expected to provide clinical supervision to non-GP HCP colleagues where appropriate. This may be in the case of individual clinical learning opportunities or in the supervision and guidance deemed appropriate in the course of supporting patient care. As a Teaching Practice the Partnership will expect you to help supervise our GPST Doctors 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 with the Practice Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

The daily arrangements for Salaried GP work a full day is as follows:

Morning Session 8:30am 1:15pm 4 hours 45 minutes

1 hour admin

3 hour and 15 minutes of appointments (13 x 15-minute appointments)

30-minute visit (1 x 30 min visits)

Afternoon Session 2.30pm 6pm 3 hours 35 minutes

50 minutes admin

2 hours 45 minutes of appointments (11 x 15-minute appointments)

Total 8 hours 20 minutes per day.

Frequency of appointments: 15 minutes

Number of appointments: 24 x 15 minute consultations per day and 1 x 30 minute visit.

Total 25 patient contacts.

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 slots can be incorporated into sessions to assist.

Duties

The workload of the Surgery 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 medical practice should be taken into consideration, meaning this list is not exhaustive and is subject to review and amendment by mutual agreement.

Duty Dr Undertake duty doctor role as scheduled based on a fair shares system.

Enhanced Access Hours Undertake enhanced access hours as scheduled based on a fair shares system.

Clinical Duties Appointments, visits, dealing with queries from patients or other health care professionals.

Home Visits (if appropriate and agreed): These are shared amongst the GP team or the Paramedic Practitioner or ANP 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. Where operational standards are met for home working, remote clinics can be carried out at your place of residence or some other agreed place outside of the Practice as agreed with the Practice Manager.

Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly from own and Practice caseload (referrals, investigations, results). The Salaried GP is responsible for their own patient associated referrals, correspondence, administration and paperwork. They will be expected to take a share of practice general incoming clinical correspondence (scanned documents), repeat prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks (patient enquiries and phone calls).

QoF & Clinical Read coding Opportunistic and Ad-Hoc QoF monitoring, ensuring accurate clinical read coding, using templates where available, to assist with Practice contractual compliance and monitoring. The Salaried GP is responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the 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.

Meetings The Salaried GP will be expected to attend relevant Practice meetings, 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. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis adjustment to clinical workload may be required.

Private reports/medical insurance/crem fees etc The Salaried GP will be expected to carry out a share of non-NHS (Private) work. Any non-NHS fees such as Crem Fees, GPRs and private consultations are retained by Northlands Surgery. The Practice Manager should be notified of any such direct requests from patients/outside agencies and this work will be cascaded to the GP team via the Practice Secretaries. All non-NHS work should be invoiced according to Practice non-nhs fee guidelines and Dr Discretion is not applicable unless by agreement of the Practice Partners.

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.

From time to time to assist with planning annual leave/sickness etc, there may be the requirement to act as Principle 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.

Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly from own and Practice caseload (referrals, investigations, results). The Salaried GP is responsible for his own patient associated correspondence, administration, and paperwork. They will be expected to take a share of filing practice general incoming clinical correspondence (scanned documents), repeat prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks (patient enquiries and phone calls).

Personal CPD The Salaried GP is expected to keep up to date with all Practice Protocols and Policies associated with their job role including the Practices own Bluestream Online Training program. 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, attending educational events or through the Practice study leave allowance.

Clinical Supervision & Colleague Education As a Senior Clinician, you will be expected to provide clinical supervision to non-GP HCP colleagues where appropriate. This may be in the case of individual clinical learning opportunities or in the supervision and guidance deemed appropriate in the course of supporting patient care. As a Teaching Practice the Partnership will expect you to help supervise our GPST Doctors 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 with the Practice Manager

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Polite and confident;
  • Flexible and cooperative;
  • Motivated, forward thinker;
  • Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required;
  • High levels of integrity and loyalty;
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations;
  • Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations;
  • Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient;
  • Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified GP
  • MRCGP
  • Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
  • General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
  • Full GMC Registration
  • National Performers List registration
  • Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU)
  • Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a primary care environment
  • Experience of continued professional development
  • Experience of QOF and clinical audit
  • General understanding of the GMS contract
Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Polite and confident;
  • Flexible and cooperative;
  • Motivated, forward thinker;
  • Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required;
  • High levels of integrity and loyalty;
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations;
  • Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations;
  • Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient;
  • Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified GP
  • MRCGP
  • Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
  • General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
  • Full GMC Registration
  • National Performers List registration
  • Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU)
  • Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a primary care environment
  • Experience of continued professional development
  • Experience of QOF and clinical audit
  • General understanding of the GMS contract

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Northlands Surgery

Address

North Street

Calne

Wiltshire

SN11 0HH


Employer's website

https://www.northlands-surgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northlands Surgery

Address

North Street

Calne

Wiltshire

SN11 0HH


Employer's website

https://www.northlands-surgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Jo Osborn

jo.osborn@nhs.net

01249813399

Details

Date posted

15 July 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11,000 a session

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A4487-24-0005

Job locations

North Street

Calne

Wiltshire

SN11 0HH


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