GP Locum Maternity Cover

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be required to:

• Provide all GP services required as part of the PMS contract held between the practices and the commissioning primary care agency, including all core services such as Child Health Surveillance
• Undertake Duty Doctor and GP paperwork duties (prescriptions, referrals, lab results, clinical letters via Docman)
• Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and referral where appropriate.
• Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice.
• Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff
• Act upon most alerts ie. QOF and reminders during a routine consultation i.e. 10 minutes.
• Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
• Adhere to any practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation;
• Record clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards;
• Collect data for audit purposes;
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible);
• 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 with the Practice:

• Engaging in appropriate lifelong educational and audit activity to maintain clinical competence and performance, including the completion of objectives agreed by you and the practice, in an annual Personal Development Plan. Your Personal Development Plan must be in line with the Practice Development Plan.
• Actively participating in the training and development of nurses, medical students, and GP trainees in the future.
• Supporting the practice staff and responding to requests for advice and assistance from the practice reception, admin and nursing staff.
• Attend prescribing, palliative care, clinical and practice meetings.
• You will be expected to take part in clinical meetings, be prepared to chair these and present clinical topics as required for the maintenance of educational standards and high-quality care. You will receive feedback from the partners via peer review and to act upon recommendations and demonstrate change
• Undertake additional training where necessary to provide these enhanced services
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice.
• Participate in meeting tight timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g., Locally Enhanced Service returns, annual QOF audit etc.)
• This list is not exhaustive, and all team members should be prepared to accept additional, or surrender existing duties, to enable the efficient running of the organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full registration with GMC Medical Degree GP registrar training

Experience

Essential

• Strong clinical knowledge and expertise in primary care.
• Experience of working within a GP practice.
• Experience of using EMIS and Docman
• Working on video/telephone consultations.
• Post graduate qualification in General Practice e.g. MRCGP/MRCP
• Completion of GP vocational training

Desirable

• Minimum 5 years of General Practice experience

Other

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Maintain confidentiality at all times
• Enjoy working within a large clinical team Interest in a chronic disease.

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

301 East Street Surgery

Address

Harold Moody Health Centre

60 Thurlow Street

London

England

SE17 2GN

Employer's website

https://301eaststreetsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)