Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

The post-holder will manage a caseload of up to 72 patients who have been classed as medically stable and are admitted to Lings Bar for rehabilitation unit in Gamston, Nottinghamshire prior to discharge (home first). Patients remain temporary residents with PICS and are temporary registered to its Hama Surgery. The Length of Stay LOS at Lings Bar is expected to be approx. 21 28 days when patients will be discharged back to their own practice or supported to register with a new practice is moving to a new address post discharge.

The team at Lings Bar is made up of GPs, ANPs Pharmacist, Care Navigator and senior operational oversight. PICS provide primary care cover into Lings Bar on Monday Friday from 8am to 6.30pm (excluding Bank Holidays).

The post holder will need to deal with a wide range of primary care health needs in a rehabilitation unit working closely with Nottinghamshire HealthCare Trust staff who provide 24/7 nursing and rehabilitation staff along with hotel and facilities management, PICS expect the delivery of the highest standards of care for these temporary patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical:

• The post-holder will be available on site to review patients who are transferred to the unit.
• Providing General Practice level care for residents.
• Leading MDTs which are scheduled on a weekly basis.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within Lings Bar.
• 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 practice disease management protocols
• 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 (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• 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.

Additional

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice 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 the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

The post holder will:

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

For more information, please see the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

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

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Lings Bar Hospital

Beckside

Gamston

Nottingham

NG2 6PR

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)