An excitingopportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Salaried GP to joinour CQC twice rated Outstanding practice in the beautiful Heart of England.
We can offerthe right candidate:-
* Full time or part time working
* A positive and supportiveworking environment
* Tier 2 Visa Sponsorship offered for eligible candidate
* 6 weeks annual leave + 1weeks study leave
* High QOF achieving
* Personalised patientlists
* Established trainingpractice with GP registrars, medical students and nursing students
* Additional indemnity cover
Our vacancyhas been created by retirement and we are willing to wait for the rightcandidate if necessary.
Main duties of the job
We are a large forward thinking, innovative practice with approximately 22,500 patients, 10 Partners, 5 Salaried GPs & 1 Retained GP. We are also a training practice with 4 GP trainers, 3 GP clinical supervisors and 6 medical student supervisors.
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 temporary patients.
REPORTS TO: THE PRACTICE MANAGER
About us
Based over 2 local sites, the GPs are supported by an experienced team of Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, Mental Health Practitioners, First Contact Physiotherapist, Treatment Room Nurses, Nursing Associates, HCAs and a large administration team. We also have a multi-disciplinary team including Care Co-ordinators, a Social Prescribing Link Worker and Safeguarding Co-Ordinators. We are a long established training practice with an ethos for education.
Our vision is to provide a high quality, compassionate, confidential and patient-centered service which is appropriate, accessible, efficient and without prejudice. We do this by delivering care based on best clinical evidence; involving patients in healthcare decisions; having a team based approach; committing to continuing education and self-evaluation; supporting the aspirations of each team member and being sensitive to the local and wide health community. Our aim is to have a population of satisfied and healthier patients, a fulfilled and developing team and a thriving Practice.
Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:
* In accordancewith the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients athome, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries,paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
* Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers withinthe organisation
* Assessing thehealth care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems
* Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
* In consultationwith patients and in line with current practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health
* Providingcounselling and health education
* Admitting ordischarging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate
* Recording clearand contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
* Compiling andissuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
* Prescribing inaccordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)whenever this is clinically appropriate
* In general thepost-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Otherresponsibilities within the organisation:
* Awareness of andcompliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
* A commitment tolife-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
* Contributing toevaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
* Contributing tothe summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
* The post-holder will undertake 1 duty session per week and will participate in our Enhanced Access rota (max. 1 session per week).
* Attendingtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.
Confidentiality (Information Governance):
* In the course ofseeking 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 theright to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately
* In theperformance of the duties outlined in this job description, thepost-holder may have access to confidential information relating topatients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcareworkers. They may also have accessto information relating to the practice as a business organisation.All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictlyconfidential
* Informationrelating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or thebusiness of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons inaccordance with the practice policies and procedures relating toconfidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data inaccordance with IG policies.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement promotion and management of their own and others health & safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safetypolicy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection controlpolicy and published procedures.
Equality and diversity:
Thepost-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carersand colleagues, to include:
* Acting in a waythat recognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in away that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation
* Respecting theprivacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
* Behaving in amanner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Inaddition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any coursesand/or study days necessary to ensure that professional developmentrequirements for revalidation are met, the post-holder will participate in any trainingprogramme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such trainingto include:
* Participation inan annual individual performance review, including taking responsibilityfor maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
* Taking responsibilityfor own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills andactivities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
Thepost-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
* Alert other teammembers to issues of quality and risk
* Assess ownperformance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision
* Contribute tothe effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance
* Contribute to any learning events raised as required
* Work effectivelywith individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
* Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holdershould recognise the importance of effective communication within the team andwill strive to:
* Communicateeffectively with other team members
* Communicateeffectively with patients and carers
* Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
Thepost-holder will:
* Apply practicepolicies, standards and guidance
* Discuss withother members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work
* Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
* Chronic disease management
* Primary prevention & screening services
* Clinical Governance
* Delivery of QoF targets
* 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
* Work to NICE Guidelines
* Aware of Prescribing Issues
* Safeguarding
* IG
* Experience of working with SystmOne, ICE & Accurx
* Adaptability to change
* Service Development
* Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team
* Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with mutli disciplinary 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 input to strategic and practice development requirements
* Ability to challenge traditional models of working and to suggest improvements for change in a positive and inclusive manner
Motivation
* Commitment to primary prevention and health improvement
* Addressing health inequalities
* Able to demonstrate on learning through SEAs, Complaints, Patient feedback
Qualifications
* Fully qualified GP with GMC registration on the GP specialist register
* Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
* On a medical performers list
* Enhanced DBS check
* UK driving licence
* Current BLS certificate
* UK work permit (if required)
* Evidence of continued professional development
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.
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