GP - South Wight Medical Practice

Job responsibilities

The Isle of Wight offers the very best environment in which to live and work. An idyllic, location with beautiful beaches and tranquil countryside on your doorstep and affordable house prices ideal for family life. Its also home to cultural and sporting opportunities from heritage sites to sailing and cycling events and world renowned music festivals. Plus, you can also reach the mainland from the Island in as little as 10 minutes by hovercraft.

Job description

Main duties of the job

As part of our team, you will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards and quality of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion
• 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 problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• 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

• 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 practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.

• Contribute to the implementation of services applying practice policies, standards, and guidance, discussing with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect your own work and supporting the Practices achievement of QOF requirements by taking appropriate actions as highlighted and requested.
• Compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, safeguarding

• The post-holder will be expected to have a commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records

The post-holder will also support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues and respect the strict confidentiality of information provided to them by patients, colleagues, and other professionals.

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the postholder will attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality
• and Outcome Framework (QOF)
• Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with patients and other healthcare professionals.
• Experience of supporting service change
• Ability to listen actively to patients in a non-judgemental manner.
• The ability to deal with criticism and work well under severe pressure.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Patience and a calm demeanour in stressful situations.
• Formulating treatment plans and evaluation of progress
• Ability to work with integrated care pathways, protocols, and patient specific directives.
• Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care
• Ability to develop and deliver evidence based care.
• Experience of service improvement and quality initiatives.
• Evidence of contributing to practice development and research in clinical area.
• Ability to understand the importance of and establish own role in Clinical Governance and risk management.
• Demonstrates evidence of continuous professional development (CPD)

Desirable

• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent record keeping skills
• Experience with clinical IT system, TPP - SystmOne
• Have an understanding of the needs of the vulnerable groups of patients that are registered with the practice.
• Experience of telephone triage.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to work flexibly to meet Practice demands
• Sensitive and shows empathy in difficult situations
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, nurses, other staff and agencies (verbal, written and electronic formats)
• Caring attitude to patients
• Must value and appreciate the worth of others
• A recognition of the importance of showing respect, dignity and compassion to patients and colleagues
• Progressive, forward-thinking attitude
• Commitment to continuing education and professional development

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully Qualified GP eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS.
• BM / MBBS or equivalent medical degree.
• National Performers List Registration.
• General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (written and verbal)
• Knowledge of the NHS and understanding of clinical governance.
• Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care.
• Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively.
• Clear DBS report.
• Evidence of commitment to ongoing personal & professional development.
• Eligible to independently practice in the United Kingdom.
• Experience of working in a general practice/primary care environment.

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).