GP working across PCN locality in Home Visiting Service .

Derbyshire Dales Primary Care Network; Matlock, Aylburton, Tansley CP, Bakewell CP; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A Primary Care Network in Matlock, UK, is seeking an enthusiastic GP for its Home Visiting Service. This permanent role involves providing patient care through home visits, assessments, and consultations across multiple practices in the Derbyshire Dales. You will need full GMC registration and experience in primary care. The position offers opportunities for varied experiences and professional support in a beautiful location, working closely with a range of healthcare professionals.

Benefits

Supportive management team

Structured training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Full GMC registration.
• National Performers List registration (England).

Responsibilities

• Autonomous general practitioner assessing and treating patients.
• Provide expert professional advice to patients and colleagues.
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

Effective time management

Problem solving and analytical skills

Ability to work as a team member and autonomously

Experience of medicines management

Education

Qualified GP

MRCGP

General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)

Tools

Clinical platforms of EMIS

Systm1

Job description

GP working across PCN locality in Home Visiting Service .

Derbyshire Dales PCN is looking to recruit an experienced GP who is enthusiastic & forward-thinking to join our Home Visiting Service on a permanent contract .

You will be required to work an agreed number of sessions across the areas that the DDPCN HVS supports.

DDPCN works in partnership and provides the home visiting service (Monday to Friday) for the seven GP Practices within our locality namely:

• Evelyn Medical Centre, Hope
• Eyam Surgery
• Baslow Health Centre
• Peak and Dales Medical Partnership (Bakewell & Tideswell)
• Darley Dale Medical Centre
• Imperial Road Group Surgery
• Lime Grove Medical Centre
• Hannage Brook Medical Centre
• Ashbourne Medical Practice.
• Henmore Health ( Ashbourne & Brailsford).

We are a very supportive PCN &will support you to work across the different surgeries and will have a lead GP/Clinical Director.

This is a great opportunity to get toknow our practices working across the north ,central and south Derbyshire Dales areasand will provide the successful candidate with varied experience.

Main duties of the job

To perform as an autonomous general practitioner workingindependently and with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients that have been triaged at practice level andrequire an acute /same day home visit or a proactively assessed visit thatfalls outside of the urgent criteria.

To provide expert professional advice to patients, carersand colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence. To beinvolved in the provision of education and training of other staff.

To be professionally accountable and responsible for allelements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conductensuring the safety of patients and quality of their care is primary.

The post holder will need to be capable of independenttravel across the Derbyshire Dales area and work flexibly to meet the needs ofthe Business.

About us

Derbyshire Dales PCN is made up of 11 GP Practices as listed above .

There is an excellent road infrastructure and access to and from the M1, A6 and A38 is easily achievable .

You will be working in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales which includes the well known tourist attractions that are scattered around the locality . It is a fantastic place to work with many benefits that are naturally derived by working in the Dales .

The ethos of DDPCN is to support all our staff in order to maximise every opportunity to deliver a high quality of patient care on behalf of our stakeholder practices .

The management team at DDPCN have a 'can do' attitude and as an employee you will be supported by an excellent clinical and back office team each day .

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

In accordance with the Home Visiting Service (HVS ) rota, as agreed, the post-holderwill make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties includingconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing/authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries,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

In consultation with patients and in line with currentpractice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

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

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribingformulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

The post-holder will be required to visit patients in anemergency if clinically indicated.

The post-holder will undertake fair share of home visitingsessions per week as allocated.

You will be experienced and be competent using the clinical platforms of EMIS and Systm1.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Not previously been substantively employed at a GP Practice
• General understanding of the primary care contract
• Full GMC registration
• National Performers List registration (England), noting that confirmation on this list is adequate for DBS confirmation
• Appropriate indemnity (MPS/MDU)
• Evidence of current validation
• Evidence of last appraisal
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently
• Qualifications
• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
• Skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Full UK Drivers license.
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of ICB initiatives

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.