Urgent Care GP

Job responsibilities

Salaried GP Job Description

Job Title:General Practitioner

Hours:TBC

Responsible to: Clinical Lead

Job summary:

The post holder will be a motivated Salaried GP working within our multidisciplinary team within a busy Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The post holder will work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment delivering high-quality, efficient, patient-centred care.

The post holder must:

• Have a GMC registration with a licence to practise

• Qualified to MRCGP or equivalent

• Be included on the NHS England Performers List

• Commit to providing high standards of clinical care

• Be able to work independently and within a team

Clinical responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical care to patients attending the UTC.

• Undertake assessment, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of injuries and illnesses.

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers

• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current disease management guidelines

• Providing counselling and health education

• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

• Prescribing in accordance with the ICB prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

• Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals including advanced nurse practitioners, paramedics, and support staff, including those from partner organisations.

• Use clinical systems effectively for documentation, prescriptions, and referrals.

• Provide supervision and mentorship to junior clinicians and allied staff where appropriate.

• Contribute to audit, quality improvement initiatives, and clinical governance activities.

• 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 policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, 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

• Contributing to read-coding patient data

• Attending training and events organised by the organisation or other agencies, where appropriate.

Safeguarding:

All employees have a duty and responsibility to protect and safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults. They must therefore be aware of child and adult protection procedures to take appropriate and timely safeguarding action and reduce the risk of significant harm to adults and children from abuse or other types of exploitation.

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 business of the 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 organisation may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the organisation policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the health & safety policy, the health & safety manual, and the infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to local guidelines

• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.

• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

• Hand hygiene standards for self and others

• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure

• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the organisation

• Active observation of current working practices across the organisation in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person

• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes

• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

• Maintenance of own clean working environment

• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers

• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use

• Maintenance of sterile environments

• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

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 recognises the importance of peoples 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 are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional 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 organisation, 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 teams performance

• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers

• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years post GP qualification experience
• Time management able to prioritise and work at pace
• Urgent care
• Chronic disease management
• Clinical Governance
• Self-audit and reflection
• Record keeping - organised and efficient in paperwork completion
• Computer literacy

Desirable

• Experience of working with a variety of clinical software systems
• Adaptability to change
• Experience of Service Development

Motivation

Essential

• Commitment to primary prevention and health improvement and reducing health inequalities
• Patient empowerment
• Patient Advocate
• Willingness to support colleagues and share workload
• Able to manage a rapidly changing workload
• Providing mentoring and clinical supervision to other clinicians
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently and of a team
• Personal resilience and ability to work calmly under pressure

Qualifications

Essential

• GMC registration with a license to practice
• Qualified to MRCGP or equivalent
• Annual appraisal and revalidation
• General practice (Vocational Training Scheme) trained
• On the NHS England Performers List (with no conditions preventing working or restrictions on practice)
• Enhanced DBS check for adults and children
• UK driving license
• UK work permit (if required)
• Medical defence union cover

Desirable

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Experience of teaching and supervision
• Evidence for adult and child BLS training within the last 12 months
• Evidence of Safeguarding training Level 2/3 Adults & Children

Aptitude & Abilities

Essential

• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire health team
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to recognise own limitations and act upon them appropriately
• Willingness to learn new skills and to solve problems daily
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Excellent communicator

Desirable

• Ability to input to organisational strategic developments
• Interest in clinical training
• Working knowledge of ICS Systems
• Desire to develop specialist skills
• Ability to challenge traditional models of working and to suggest improvements for change in a positive and inclusive manner

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).