Job summary
The locum GP
role is an essential member of the clinical team with the Extended Access
Service. You will provide high quality clinical care to the patients attending
the services, dealing with a diverse range of health needs. You will be part of
a team providing a friendly and professional service, in a CQC rated good
organisation.
The role has
opportunity for personal development as well as support other clinical areas
within The Confederation as needed.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Surgery and Telephone Consultations
- Administration
- Complying with the Confederation contracts
- Education
and training of junior/trainee clinical staff.
About us
The
Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with General Practice and other healthcare
providers to deliver its vision for Hillingdon to deliver the best primary
care outcomes for patients in the whole of London. We are a
not-for-profit community interest company. The Confederation works to
develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their
changing needs. We deliver excellent clinical services ourselves both at
scale and complementary to General Practice. We are the provider representative
voice for local General Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners.
We are of the NHS but independent, innovative and transformational.
The Confederation
determines to develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles
and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in
turn delivers our vision.
Our Values
- We work together to make a difference for patients
- We care enough to go the extra mile
- We support, trust, and empower
- We sincerely value each other
- We support primary care to own its destiny
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high
quality consultations to patients in Hillingdon managing acute and chronic
disease
- Work with the
operations team and Service Clinical Lead to ensure the provision of high
quality care
- Work with the
Clinical Lead to ensure the clinical safety of the service by provide clinical
updates/training/incident reviews when appropriate.
- Complete and provide the analysis of clinical audits as requested
by the clinical lead or COD.
- Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and
locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the service clinical
appointment hours
- Undertake telephone and face to face consultations as required,
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional
interventions as appropriate
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing
advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health
needs
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
- Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering
bad news
- Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients
and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred
communication method
- Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking
support from other staff members where necessary
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients
aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply
with treatment
- Provide services to the practices patient population to the
highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of
conduct
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking
appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review,
benchmarking and evaluation
- Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to
ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant
events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the
highest standards of care
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in
improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local
and national policy and strategy
- Work within the service legal framework for identifying vulnerable
patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients
- Service-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and
contact with patients
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract,
enhanced services and QOF
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff
through informal catch-ups and contact
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical,
educational/training-related and administrative meetings
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and
stakeholders
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate
- Personal and professional development
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior
members of staff, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to
prioritise team and practice workload
- Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for
delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice
education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning,
reflection, complaints and feedback
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient
care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as
reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video
analysis of consultations, etc
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and
students
- Work to deliver effective and safe care and liaise with GP
practices, community services, and secondary care to ensure patients have a
good and effective experience of services and care.
- Make recommendations and support the development of the service
and to develop it in terms of quality, efficiency, patient experience, and
scale; must including continual quality improvement processes.
- Ensure ongoing good governance and delivery of the service
reporting incidents and being part of clinical audits
- To always act to support and protect the reputation, safety and
sustainability of the Confederation.
- To be available to attend internal team meetings as needed
- To be adaptable and flexible to wherever possible cover ad hoc
duties as they arise and are necessary to be completed.
- To work and apply oneself in the best interests of primary care
provision in Hillingdon.
- To bring the skills, knowledge and experience they have personally
attained and apply them within the clinical operations to the best of their
ability and to the interests and duties listed above.
- To contribute to generally in terms of values, behaviours, and
attitudes so that the leadership of the team demonstrates the values the
Confederation seeks to represent and uphold
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high
quality consultations to patients in Hillingdon managing acute and chronic
disease
- Work with the
operations team and Service Clinical Lead to ensure the provision of high
quality care
- Work with the
Clinical Lead to ensure the clinical safety of the service by provide clinical
updates/training/incident reviews when appropriate.
- Complete and provide the analysis of clinical audits as requested
by the clinical lead or COD.
- Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and
locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the service clinical
appointment hours
- Undertake telephone and face to face consultations as required,
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional
interventions as appropriate
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing
advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health
needs
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
- Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering
bad news
- Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients
and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred
communication method
- Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking
support from other staff members where necessary
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients
aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply
with treatment
- Provide services to the practices patient population to the
highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of
conduct
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking
appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review,
benchmarking and evaluation
- Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to
ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant
events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the
highest standards of care
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in
improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local
and national policy and strategy
- Work within the service legal framework for identifying vulnerable
patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients
- Service-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and
contact with patients
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract,
enhanced services and QOF
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff
through informal catch-ups and contact
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical,
educational/training-related and administrative meetings
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and
stakeholders
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate
- Personal and professional development
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior
members of staff, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to
prioritise team and practice workload
- Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for
delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice
education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning,
reflection, complaints and feedback
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient
care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as
reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video
analysis of consultations, etc
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and
students
- Work to deliver effective and safe care and liaise with GP
practices, community services, and secondary care to ensure patients have a
good and effective experience of services and care.
- Make recommendations and support the development of the service
and to develop it in terms of quality, efficiency, patient experience, and
scale; must including continual quality improvement processes.
- Ensure ongoing good governance and delivery of the service
reporting incidents and being part of clinical audits
- To always act to support and protect the reputation, safety and
sustainability of the Confederation.
- To be available to attend internal team meetings as needed
- To be adaptable and flexible to wherever possible cover ad hoc
duties as they arise and are necessary to be completed.
- To work and apply oneself in the best interests of primary care
provision in Hillingdon.
- To bring the skills, knowledge and experience they have personally
attained and apply them within the clinical operations to the best of their
ability and to the interests and duties listed above.
- To contribute to generally in terms of values, behaviours, and
attitudes so that the leadership of the team demonstrates the values the
Confederation seeks to represent and uphold
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in urgent care clinical services
- Extensive experience of virtual clinical consultations
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and deliver programmes of work on time and to a high standard
- Excellent organisational skills with an attention to detail and an ability to finish tasks completely and to a high standard
- Ability to keep full, accurate and up to date records to a high standard
- Ability to assimilate information quickly and make clear and effective decisions under pressure
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening explaining, promoting, listening, learning, to / at all levels of the healthcare system
- Ability to motivate and engender trust and team identity
- In depth user knowledge of EMIS
Desirable
- Extensive experience of working in primary care in Hillingdon
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC Registration
- Qualified GP
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in urgent care clinical services
- Extensive experience of virtual clinical consultations
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and deliver programmes of work on time and to a high standard
- Excellent organisational skills with an attention to detail and an ability to finish tasks completely and to a high standard
- Ability to keep full, accurate and up to date records to a high standard
- Ability to assimilate information quickly and make clear and effective decisions under pressure
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening explaining, promoting, listening, learning, to / at all levels of the healthcare system
- Ability to motivate and engender trust and team identity
- In depth user knowledge of EMIS
Desirable
- Extensive experience of working in primary care in Hillingdon
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC Registration
- Qualified GP
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).
