Salaried GP

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Salaried GP to join our fantastic team at Ashley Surgery on the North Staffordshire/Shropshire border for 5/6 sessions per week.

We are a caring, friendly and supportive dispensing practice looking to recruit to assist us to maintain our high standard of compassionate patient care to our patients within the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent ICB.

We are a training practice with an excellent reputation and together with a full complement of highly skilled and committed staff we serve the needs of our 5200+ patients.

Package includes annual indemnity insurance, NHS pension, 6 weeks annual leave, 1 week CPD and 1 week study leave.

Main duties of the job

A team player who will assist us to provide General Medical and Enhanced Services to our patients.

Duties include face to face consultations, telephone consultation and queries, home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions. Dealing with queries and correspondence in a timely fashion whilst providing high-quality patient care.

About us

We are a small friendly practice with 5000+ patients. Our clinical team comprises of 2 GP Partners, 1 Salaried GP, 2 Practice Nurses, 1 Senior Health Care Assistant plus support from a number of PCN staff. We are also a training practice in conjunction with West Midlands Deanery.

We have 4 receptionist/administrators, 4 dispensers, 1 Practice Manager and 1 Operations Manager.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

To work as an autonomous practitioner, to provide general medical services to manage acaseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary caresetting. To ensure the highest standardsof care for all patients whilst adhering to the GMC standards for good medicalpractice.

Clinical Responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable,as agreed, the post-holder will:

Makethemselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperworkand correspondence in a timely manner

Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation

Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems

Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Developingcare plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with currentpractice disease management protocols

Providingcounselling and health education

Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate

On arotational basis, undertake duty doctor roles

Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collectingdata for audit purposes

Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribingin accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate

Ingeneral, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal dutiesand responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care,including participating in all aspects of QOF, QIF and all enhanced services

Otherresponsibilities within the practice:

Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

Acommitment to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based bestpractice

Contributingto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records

Contributingto the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

Attendingtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, whereappropriate

Participatein the educational and training events of the practice

Participationin an annual individual performance review and appraisal within the practice,including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/orprofessional development

Takeresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Prepareand complete the revalidation process and external annual peer appraisal

Confidentiality:

Inthe course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and othermatters. They do so in confidence andhave the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately

Inthe performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holdermay have access to confidential information relating to patients and theircarers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to informationrelating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to beregarded as strictly confidential

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

Health& safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead ona full range of promotion and management of their own and others health andsafety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safetypolicy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infectioncontrol policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not belimited to):

Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Awarenessof national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Providingadvice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, includingcollection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storageand transport arrangements

Correctpersonal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use ofPPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,staff and patients.

Managementof the full range of infection control procedures in both routine andextraordinary circumstances (e.g. Pandemic or individual infectiouscircumstances)

Handhygiene standards for self and others

Managingdirectly all incidents of accidental exposure

Managementand advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient careprotocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

Activeobservation of current working practices across the practice in relation toinfection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that proceduresare followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues asappropriate to the responsible person

Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a waythat manages those risks across clinical and patient process

Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate andmanage the training of others across the full range of infection control andpatient processes

Monitoringpractice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuringthat proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and thatthese are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack offacilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

Safemanagement of sharps use, storage and disposal

Maintenanceofown clean working environment

Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy,clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial /corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

Activelyidentifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infectionhazards immediately when recognised

Keepingown work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifyingissues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business,and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards ofcleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) withresponsible managers

Undertakingperiodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)

Correctwaste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and containeruse

Maintenanceof sterile environments

Demonstratedue regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

Equalityand diversity:

Thepost-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carersand colleagues, to include:

Actingin a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation

Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintainquality within the practice, and will:

Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk

Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision

Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise theimportance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicateeffectively with other team members

Communicateeffectively with patients and carers

Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contributionto the implementation of services:

Applypractice policies, standards and guidance

Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work

Participatein audit where appropriate

Please note that as a member of thepractice team, you should:

Provide flexibility of work tomaintain a high level of efficiency, i.e. Working in any area of thepractice if requested to do so, according to the needs of the practice

Maintain a high level of attendance

Comply at all times to the StaffContract, Standard Operating Procedures and any other practice rules andprocedures, including CQC policies

The job will usually be based within thepractice at Ashley Surgery. However, atemporary transfer may be required to alternative locations in case of anemergency or as the practice requires.

This job description is not intended to bean exhaustive list of all the tasks you will ever be expected to do, it ismerely a guide to the main ones.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully Qualified General Practitioner with live GMC registration
• National Performers List registration

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment

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.