GP

Job responsibilities

As a Salaried GP, your duties will include:

• Providing medical services to patients at Claypath Medical Centre and University Health Centre. Appointments are normally made at 10/15-minute intervals, with clinical workload and appointment structure kept under regular review.

• Travel within the practice area to attend home visits, usually none or one per day, with a maximum of two per day.

• Dealing with paperwork, correspondence, and test results associated with patient care.

• Providing choice to the patient who is being referred to Secondary Care.

• For patient care and the Quality and Outcomes Framework, maintaining accurate electronic records within agreed practice procedures.

• Participating in and operating clinical governance methods and systems approved by the Partnership or by the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, for example medical audit or quality assurance initiatives.

• Liaising with other members of the Primary Care Health Team, and other agencies as appropriate, to ensure good relationships are maintained with patients, colleagues, and other agencies.

• Carrying out work considered outside the NHS, such as medical examinations, certificates, and reports, where the income is retained by the employer. All fees received by you, by virtue of your position in the practice, shall be paid to the Practice.

• Maintaining a high standard of care to patients by showing a commitment to continuing professional development and by participation in practice, clinical, and training meetings.

• Working within practice policies on prescribing, referrals, and other general clinical issues, which the practice will from time to time agree.

• Carrying out other duties, both clinical and administrative, as are reasonable, clinically relevant, and commensurate with the role of a Salaried GP.

• Practice meetings you are invited to attend those meetings that are deemed relevant.

• Administrative tasks associated with patient care will be undertaken within the working day, with timing dependent on the clinical session structure and practice needs.

• Additional sessions the practice may agree with the practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified in this Job Description, by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. The extra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis.

• Annual leave entitlement is 30 days pro rata.

• Study/Professional Leave is one week pro rata. This includes time out for appraisal.

• Scheduled mentoring meeting quarterly.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Effective time management (planning, organising and prioritising) with excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Ability to follow legal, ethical and professional standards, including policies and procedures
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity
• Ability to work under pressure and in stressful situations
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal and organisational skills
• Effectively able to communicate in a clear manner and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

Desirable

• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• Effectively utilise resources

Experience

Essential

• Ability to both work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of providing home visits
• General understanding of the primary care contract
• Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice

Desirable

• An appreciation of the NHS landscape and relationship between individual organisations, PCNs and the commissioners

Clinical Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Outstanding level of clinical knowledge and skills commensurate with that of an experienced GP
• Understanding of the importance of evidence-based practice
• Good MS Office and clinical system IT knowledge
• Understanding of the spectrum of clinical governance processes
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) including recording of accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GP colleagues
• Experience of triage and the ability to effectively assess and diagnose
• Ability to listen whilst being honest and caring and be both sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Understanding of the local pathology tests processes and the ability to processing the results with advising patients accordingly
• Ability to assess and manage acute deteriorations /exacerbations of long-term conditions
• Understanding of safeguarding adults and children
• Understanding of the importance of evidence-based practice
• Experience of medicines management

Desirable

• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Experience of medicines management
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Understanding and knowledge of QOF and enhanced service

Other requirements/wider responsibilities

Essential

• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational health clearance
• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
• Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)
• Full GMC registration
• Performers List registration noting that confirmation on this list is adequate for DBS confirmation:
• Conforms to the National Performers List and is able to perform any such service as detailed within Regulation 24 of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013.

Eligibility

Essential

• Appropriate defence indemnity
• Evidence of current validation
• Evidence of last appraisal
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

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).