General Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

Provide clinical care (including associated administration) via face to face, telephone and digital consultations, this may include home visits.

Prescribe medications, order diagnostic tests, and interpret results to guide patient management.

Manage chronic conditions, acute illnesses, and minor injuries, providing continuity of care for patients.

Offer preventive healthcare services such as vaccinations, health screenings, and health promotion advice.

Collaborate as needed with external stakeholders, to facilitate coordinated care for patients.

Triage Hub:

Participate in the clinical rota for the triage hub.

Provide ongoing clinical advice and support to enable the navigation team to triage patients effectively when undertaking triage sessions.

Triage and/or treat patient queries assigned to the GP.

Safeguarding:

Be vigilant to potential safeguarding concerns and familiarise yourself with those patients considered a greater risk.

Understand the protocols and processes for safeguarding concerns and escalate without delay.

Seek advice, guidance and support as needed from the Designated Safeguarding Lead and/or Group Manager for safeguarding concerns.

Professional Development:

Stay abreast of developments in primary care medicine, evidence-based practices, and clinical guidelines through continuing medical education and professional development activities.

Keep up to date with all mandatory and relevant training. Attend sessions and workshops as directed by the Clinical Lead or Group Manager.

Engage in peer learning and clinical supervision to enhance clinical skills and knowledge.

Contribute to the training and education of medical students, junior doctors, and other healthcare professionals as appropriate.

Clinical Governance and QOF:

Work with the leadership team to ensure national targets for patient access and care are met (including targets for QOF, IIF, Delivery plan for recovering access to Primary Care, APMS Contract targets).

Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, clinical protocols, and best practices in primary care.

Participate in practice meetings, quality assurance activities, and clinical audits to support practice management and improvement efforts.

Manage time effectively to balance clinical responsibilities, administrative tasks, and professional development activities.

Person Specification

Specific Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Record of on-going CPD and learning.
• MRCGP examination or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of clinical governance.
• Will have an understanding of the political agenda and drivers influencing primary care provision.
• Good organisational and IT skills desirable
• Will have excellent interpersonal skills and be committed to working as part of a team.
• Will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Clear commitment to delivering quality and patient focused services.

Experience

Essential

• Tracking our performance against nationally established goals, leads us to deliver better, more streamlined patient care, helps us to reduce the administrative burden and increase the uptake and ease of access to care. We have an extensive multi-disciplinary team who are keen to innovate and utilise their varied skillset and we are seeking talented individuals like you to become a part of it!
• You will work to ensure that quality is at the heart of everything we do within the surgery, adhering to our clinical governance framework and forming part of our clinical team, providing high quality care to our patients.
• We have varying sessions available, so you have the flexibility to choose sessions that work for you. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company that values their people over process, and we would love to hear from you!

Qualifications

Essential

• An experienced doctor with GP accreditation.
• Current registration with GMC and NHS performers list (with no conditions preventing working or restrictions on practice).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Spirit Primary Care Limited

Address

Statis House Surgery

10 Birmingham Road

Water Orton

Birmingham

B461TH