Locum GP

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC is seeking a locum GP to provide high quality clinical care within the Extended Access Service across five locations in London. You will perform on-site surgeries, conduct telephone consultations, and contribute to governance and the ongoing education of junior clinical staff.

You will manage a range of acute and chronic conditions, work with the operations team to maintain care standards, and ensure prescribing follows local and national guidelines.

Qualifications

• Provide high quality consultations to patients in the service.
• Work with operations team to ensure provision of high quality care.
• Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines.
• Refer patients to secondary/urgent care when appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality consultations to patients in Hillingdon managing acute and chronic disease.
• Work with the operations team and Service Clinical Lead to ensure the provision of high quality care.
• Work with the Clinical Lead to ensure the clinical safety of the service by provide clinical updates/training/incident reviews when appropriate.
• Complete and provide the analysis of clinical audits as requested by the clinical lead or COD.
• Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines.
• Conduct patient consultations during the service clinical appointment hours.
• Undertake telephone and face to face consultations as required.
• Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines.
• Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate.
• Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
• Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice.
• Carry out patient testing and screening as required.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients' health needs.

Job description

About Us

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with General Practice and other healthcare providers to deliver its vision for "Hillingdon to deliver the best primary care outcomes for patients in the whole of London". We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The Confederation works to develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their changing needs. We deliver excellent clinical services ourselves both at scale and complementary to General Practice. We are the provider representative voice for local General Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners. We are 'of the NHS' but independent, innovative and transformational.

The Confederation determines to develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in turn delivers our vision.

Job Summary

The locum GP role is an essential member of the clinical team with the Extended Access Service. You will provide high quality clinical care to the patients attending the services, dealing with a diverse range of health needs. You will be part of a team providing a friendly and professional service, in a CQC rated good organisation.

This will include, but is not limited to, surgery and telephone consultations, administration, complying with the Confederation contracts , and the education and training of junior/trainee clinical staff.

This role is expected to be a mix of locum shifts on site across 5 locations. Hours of operation are

• Monday - Friday 6:30pm-8:30pm
• Saturday - 9am-1pm and 1pm-5pm
• Sunday - 9am-1pm

Once onboarded clinicians have access to booking shifts via Lantum.

The role has opportunity for personal development as well as support other clinical areas within the confederation as needed.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide high quality consultations to patients in Hillingdon managing acute and chronic disease
• Work with the operations team and Service Clinical Lead to ensure the provision of high quality care
• Work with the Clinical Lead to ensure the clinical safety of the service by provide clinical updates/training/incident reviews when appropriate.
• Complete and provide the analysis of clinical audits as requested by the clinical lead or COD.
• Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
• Conduct patient consultations during the service clinical appointment hours
• Undertake telephone and face to face consultations as required,
• Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
• Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate
• Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
• Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
• Carry out patient testing and screening as required
• Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients' health needs

Communication with Patients

• Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
• Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news
• Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients' and carers' level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method
• Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking support from other staff members where necessary
• Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment

Delivering High-Quality Services

• Provide services to the practice's patient population to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct
• Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking and evaluation
• Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
• Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
• Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care
• Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy
• Work within the service legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients

Primary Responsibilities - Non-Clinical

• Service-related duties
• Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
• Record and collect data for audit purposes
• Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients
• Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF
• Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catch‑ups and contact
• Attend and contribute to in‑house meetings, including clinical, educational/training‑related and administrative meetings
• Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders
• Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate

Personal and Professional Development

• Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
• Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
• Prepare for and complete revalidation process
• Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior members of staff, sharing information and good practice
• Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to prioritise team and practice workload
• Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
• Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints and feedback
• Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
• Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations, etc
• Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students

Partner Relationships

• Work to deliver effective and safe care and liaise with GP practices, community services, and secondary care to ensure patients have a good and effective experience of services and care.
• GPs
• Clinical service lead
• Service nursing team
• Clinical staff in training
• Service management team
• Reception and administration staff
• Patients
• Patients' carers and family members
• Community nursing and pharmacy teams
• Social workers
• Occupation therapy teams
• Pharmacists
• CCG managers and staff
• Other external agencies and stakeholders
• Secondary care

Service Development

• Make recommendations and support the development of the service and to develop it in terms of quality, efficiency, patient experience, and scale; must including continual quality improvement processes.

Governance

• Ensure ongoing good governance and delivery of the service reporting incidents and being part of clinical audits.

The Confederation

• To always act to support and protect the reputation, safety and sustainability of the Confederation.

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