General Practitioner - Meddygfa Cwm Rhymni Practice

NHS; Tredegar; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established practice in Tredegar is seeking a fixed-term Salaried GP for 9 months to cover maternity leave. The role involves managing a diverse caseload, conducting consultations, and ensuring high standards of patient care. The practice supports professional development and offers a friendly work environment with a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• Experience working in GP practice.
• Interest in menopause desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs.
• Undertake surgery consultations and home visits.
• Record clear consultation notes and manage prescriptions.

Skills

Communication

Patient Care

Autonomous Decision Making

Education

MRCGP

Job description

The practice is seeking fixed term Salaried GP to join the team for 9 months to cover maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

The practice undertakes a mixture of f2f consultations along with triage/duty/tel consults, successful candidate will be expected to undertake these forms of consultations including home visits when required, occasionally duty until 6:30

About us

We are a well-established, friendly 7 partner practiceworking between 2 sites, Rhymney & New Tredegar, all within short distanceof each other and easily accessible from Cardiff/Swansea Brecon/Abergavenny.The partners are supported with 5 Salaried GP's, 2 Pharmacists, 3 AdvancedNurse Practitioners and an excellent nursing team comprising of 4 PracticeNurses and 2 Health Care Assistants & Phlebotomist.

The resource centre in Rhymney houses a variety of servicessuch as dentist, optician, district nurses, health visitors, social workers,mental health teams and many more outreach clinics. EMIS clinical system 18,000patients Medical student teaching High achievement in QAIF, with excellentadministrative support Supports academic, clinical and management interests andprofessional development

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: 9 MONTH FIXED TERM SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

SENIOR MANAGER (Administratively)

HOURS: 6 SESSIONS

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a widerange of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standardsof care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties,including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visitingpatients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing withqueries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation topresenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health careworkers within the organisation

Assessing the health care needs of patients withundifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signsof illness

Developing care plans for health in consultation withpatients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseloadand referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes toagreed standards

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribingformulary (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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practicepolicies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, healthand safety

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensureevidence-based best practice

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standardsetting within the organisation

Contributing to the development of computer-based patientrecords

Contributing to the summarising of patient records andread-coding patient data

Attending training and events organised by the practice orother agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

In the course ofseeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They do so inconfidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacyand act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this jobdescription, the post-holder may have access to confidential informationrelating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcareworkers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as abusiness organisation. All such information from any source is to be regardedas strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, otherhealthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged toauthorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and proceduresrelating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range ofpromotion and management of their own and others health and safety andinfection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, thepractice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policyand published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplaceaccording to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control andcleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and goodpractice guidelines

Providing advice on the correct and safe management of thespecimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correctand clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriatecircumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.

Management of the full range of infection control proceduresin both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individualinfectious circumstances)

Hand hygiene standards for self and others

Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure

Management and advice relating to infection control andclinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocolsacross the practice

Active observation of current working practices across thepractice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs areidentified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person

Identifying the risks involved in work activities andundertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinicaland patient process

Making effective use of training to update knowledge andskills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range ofinfection control and patient processes

Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation toinfection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansingfacilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinicalworking environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to theresponsible manager

Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

Maintenance of own clean working environment

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintainingwork areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards.Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation toresponsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health andsafety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generallyclean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other workareas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance ofgeneral standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (whereappropriate) with responsible managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimumtwice annually)

Correct waste and instrument management, including handling,segregation, and container use

Maintenance of sterile environments

Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting thewelfare of children.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity andrights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoplesrights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice proceduresand policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs ofpatients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of theindividual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelingspriorities and rights.

In addition to maintaining continued education throughattendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure thatprofessional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder willparticipate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part ofthis employment, with such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review,including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/orprofessional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning andperformance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who areundertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within thepractice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for ownactions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting onown and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhancethe teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meetpatients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effectivecommunication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods ofcommunication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

Apply practice policies, standards and guidance

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies,standards and guidelines will affect own work

Participate in auditwhere appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience working in GP practice

Qualifications

• MRCGP
• Interest in menopause desirable but not essential

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.