Senior Lead GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

a) Clinical Leadership

Provide visible clinical leadership

Be a point of contact for practice staff who need support and guidance over quality or safety concerns. This may include a formal role in some staff members appraisals in some instances.

Develop clinical governance strategies, systems and processes and ensure the active participation by all medical staff.

Work with practice management to lead the wider practice team including regular attendance at practice meetings

Support career development of clinical staff

Build relationships with SPC Safeguarding Lead, SPC Education Lead, Senior GP lead and ACP clinical leads from other SPC Practices and share learning and good practice

Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future, bringing the quality and safety concerns to the fore and ensuring these are balanced with any organisational and financial concerns.

Develop and maintain active working relationships with PCNs

Sign off any additional policies/procedures as required

Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF/LCS and IIF

Attend quality assurance meeting and education meetings with other senior clinical lead GPs and with Medical Director for quality assurance purposes and agree to work in line with SPC Clinical Governance structure

To work collaboratively with practice management operational team and ACP clinical lead as practice executive team

b) Clinical Quality/Safety

Be responsible for taking an overview of the clinical functions of Dolphins Practice in terms of service quality and safety.

Ensure that the systems exist to embed best clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record keeping etc)

Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Significant Event reviews and complaints, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice

Be the joint CQC registered manager with the Practice Manager

Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness

Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service (e.g., record keeping, national and local safety alerts)

Take the overall lead for arranging practice education meetings and ensuring that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy

Be the Caldicott Guardian for Dolphins Practice

Be the lead clinician for ensuring that all areas of clinical leadership (see SPC Clinical Leadership Model) are covered within the practice

c) Supervision

You will be responsible for delivering peer-based support across the practice team and be responsible for arranging the group supervisions, 1-1 supervisions and appraisals of practice based non-medical prescribers alongside the ACP Clinical Lead. you will be required to deliver an annual SPC appraisal to the salaried GP's in the practice and hold quarterly 1-1 with them.

Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF) Clinical Governance Primary care prevention and screening services Self-audit and reflection Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure Computer literacy Adaptability to change

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential criteria
• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003 Accredited as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) or have 5 years experience as a full time GP with a demonstrable commitment to quality practice. Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check Evidence of continued professional development.
• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams Ability to work flexibly Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality Ability to work within the changing structures of the NHS and work to the requirements of other regulatory bodies Excellent communicator Work in line with practice systems and processes

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

Sussex Primary Care

Address

Dolphins Surgery

Butlers Green Road

Haywards Heath

West Sussex

RH164BN

Employer's website

http://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)