Job summary
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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. The caseload of a practitioner is proportionate to the number of sessions he or she works and this will be reflected in the allocation of clinical responsibilities as set out below. A routine session is based on a clinic at one of the Practice sites containing up to 20 appointments. A session may also comprise acting as a site doctor or visiting doctor as part of the Practices duty team, seeing patients on the day. Core GMS hours of work are between and Monday to Friday and these shall be the usual hours of work but the postholder will be required to undertake his/her fair share of surgeries outside core GMS hours under the extended hours enhanced service, the improved access scheme or schemes which supersede, amend or supplement those.
Practice ethos: The Partners of Godolphin Health believe in a practice ethos whereby all clinicians and staff are involved in and contribute to maintaining and encouraging a robust, resilient and sustainable business offering a supportive working environment for all. Within this we encourage salaried general practitioners to put forward their ideas on suggestions for improvement & development. Essential to this approach is a recognition that such an environment can only be maintained if the Practice is successful as a business, generating sufficient funds to maintain & improve services to its patients without placing unsustainable demands upon those working within the Practice. Essentially, we regard all our GPs as stakeholders in the business working alongside Partners to achieve common aims and postholders are expected to subscribe to working on that basis.
Clinical responsibilities:
In accordance with the practice rota, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a range 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 practice manages its urgent and on-the-day demand as a duty team and, as such, the postholder will be required to take his/her fair share of duties over the practices working hours and will work flexibly within that team to meet demand.
1. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
2. Acting as Usual GP for a proportionate share of the practices patients
3. Ensuring the timely review of all workflow within the practice systems to include: incoming documents, pathology results, medicines management/queries, practice emails and tasks. NB: Notwithstanding the principle of proportionality in relation to sessions, GPs who are not full-time are required on grounds of patient safety to keep up-to-date with all pathology results, tasks and documents received for their patients through the working week by either directly coming into the practice or remote access on off-duty to ensure patient safety, except for periods of annual leave when cover will be provided.
4. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
5. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
6. In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
7. Providing counselling and health education
8. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
9. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
10. Collecting data for audit purposes
11. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
12. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
13. The Practice is required to provide patients with details or copies of their medical records redacted in line with governing law. It is also required from time to time to supply medical reports or forms to third parties. Postholders will involve themselves to an extent reasonably & proportionately required in order to fulfil the Practices obligations and the expectations of our patients.
14. 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:
The postholder will be required to undertake his/her fair share of surgeries outside core GMS hours under the extended hours enhanced service, the improved access scheme or schemes which supersede, amend or supplement them.
15. The postholder will be required to undertake his/her fair share of surgeries outside core GMS hours under the extended hours enhanced service, the improved access scheme or schemes which supersede, amend or supplement them.
16. Attendance at practice clinical meetings as scheduled.
17. Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety and safeguarding of children & vulnerable adults
18. A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
19. Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
20. Commitment to data quality within computer-based patient records
21. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
22. Attending / undertaking training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate and ensure that training is kept up to date in line with Practice protocols.
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
23. 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 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.
24. 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.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment.
Quality:
Godolphin Health is committed to quality throughout the organisation. In line with that commitment the postholder will perform such work as may reasonably & proportionately be required to fulfil the requirements of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and other quality schemes to which the Practice may ascribe, such as the General Practice Prescribing Quality Scheme (GPPQS). Godolphin Health has consistently achieved 100% in QOF and regards consistency in those standards as central to preserving the reputation and status of the business. More generally the post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to communicate effectively with others.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
25. Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
26. On Medical Performers List
27. Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
28. General practice (Vocational Training Scheme) trained
29. Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check
30. UK driving licence
31. UK work permit (if required)
32. Current level 3 safeguarding certificate (adult and children)
Desirable
33. Evidence of continued professional development
34. MRCGP
35. Experience of teaching undergraduate students
36. Palliative care
37. Womens health issues contraception implants
Experience
Essential
38. Chronic disease management
39. Primary prevention & screening services
40. Clinical Governance
41. Delivery of QoF targets
42. Self audit and reflection
43. Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
44. Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
45. Computer literacy
46. Car owner
Desirable
47. Experience of working in primary care
48. Experience of working in a GP Practice
49. Experience of working with KLINIK and EMIS software
APTITUDE AND ABILITIES
Essential
50. Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team
51. Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with mutli disciplinary teams Ability to work flexibly
52. Ability to work autonomously
53. Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately
54. Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis
55. An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
56. Teamplayer
Desirable
57. Ability to input to strategic and practice development requirements
58. Desire to develop specialist skills
59. Ability to challenge traditional models of working and to suggest improvements for change in a positive and inclusive manner
60. GP trainer
MOTIVATION
Essential
61. Commitment to primary prevention and health improvement
62. Addressing health inequalities
63. Patient empowerment
64. Patient advocate
65. Excellent communicator