Salaried GP

Job overview

Salaried GP for 6 sessions

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, forward-thinking individual to join our lovely team. The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting.

Our GP Day consists of an AM and PM session with a mixture of 10 and 15 minute face-to-face and telephone consultations for minor and emergency problems.

You will be supported by an excellent clinical team which comprises of 5 x GP Partners, 5 x salaried GPs, a nursing team who manage chronic diseases and includes GPA's, HCA's and Phlebotomists, a Pharmacy team and other PCN-based teams including Social Prescribing, Physios, a Mental Health Practitioner and Frailty Nurses.

Our GP Partners here aim to be as flexible as they possibly can and support you.

We are ideally seeking a GP to work regular Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with a weekly alternating duty commitment on the Wednesday.

Job description

Job Summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and non-registered patients.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• 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 repeat 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 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 and in keeping with guidelines.
• 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 prescribing formulary and guidelines and with NHS Gloucestershire guidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Participate in the training and supervision of other clinicians (within the post-holders areas of competency)
• 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 within the Organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant 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 surgery or other agencies, where appropriate.

About the organisation

We are a well-established and innovative training GMS practice with 2 sites on Cheltenham Road and at Highnam. We have a patient list size of 12,000. Our CQC rating is good.

You will be supported by an excellent clinical team which comprises of 5 x GP Partners, 5 x salaried GPs, a nursing team who manage chronic diseases and includes GPA's, HCA's and Phlebotomists, a Pharmacy team and other PCN-based teams including Social Prescribing, Physios, a Mental Health Practitioner and Frailty Nurses.

Our administrative team is led by the Practice Manager and includes an Assistant Practice Manager, a Finance Manager, an IT Manager, a Reception Lead, Care Co-ordinators (who assist with palliative patients and safeguarding issues) and a Coding Team who help to manage GP workflow to reduce the administrative burden on our GP's.

We also have a dispensary at our Highnam site who dispense prescriptions for our patients registered who live rurally.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• -Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• -Commitment to and experience of working as part of a
• multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
• -Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and
• Outcome Framework (QOF) and the PCN DES/IIF.

Desirable

• -Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• -Experience of supporting service change.
• -Evidence of participation in Audit.
• -Evidence of participation in QOF

Qualifications

Essential

• -A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General
• Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist
• Medical Practice Order 2003.
• -Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act
• 1983.
• -Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion
• of Training CCT).
• -Currently on a PCT performers list and not suspended from that list
• or from the medical register.
• -Enhanced DBS clearance.
• -Have had an annual NHS appraisal.

Desirable

• -Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant
• fields.
• -MRCGP.
• -DCH.
• -DRCOG.
• -Evidence of CPD activities.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• -Knowledge of how the NHS works.
• -Have an understanding of the needs of the vulnerable groups of patients that are registered.
• -Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient
• population.
• -Committed to personal and professional development.
• -Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• -Excellent record keeping.
• -Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary
• care.
• -Excellent time management.
• -Good analytical skills.
• -Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of
• patients.
• -Excellent patient manner.
• -Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.

Desirable

• -QOF
• -Practice based commissioning
• -Read Codes
• -Audit
• -Fully conversant with EMIS clinical system
• -Fully conversant with Outlook and Office.