Newly Qualified Salaried GP (ARRS)

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative community interest company is looking for newly qualified GPs to join their team in Hillingdon. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic primary care setting, managing a diverse caseload and ensuring the highest standards of care for patients. As part of a collaborative team, you will engage in various duties including consultations, patient assessments, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives. The organization is dedicated to supporting its staff and fostering professional growth, making it an attractive place for newly qualified professionals to thrive and make a meaningful impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified GP with no previous substantive post required.
• Experience working within the NHS and good IT skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and ensure high standards of patient care.
• Conduct consultations, assess health needs, and develop care plans.
• Record consultation notes and contribute to practice audits.

Skills

Teamwork

Time Management

IT Skills

Problem Solving

Quality Improvement

Communication

Education

GMC Registration

Postgraduate Qualifications

Tools

ESP (Electronic Prescription Service)

Job description

We are seeking newly qualified GPs who have not held substantive posts to work in PCNs across the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Main duties of the job

This is a position for newly qualified GPs (within 2 years of CCT date & not having held a substantive post before) to work in PCNs within Hillingdon. 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.

This post may require you to travel between different practices within a PCN in the borough of Hillingdon as and when required and will require you to be registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and hold a certificate of completion of training within two years. This role does NOT apply to General Medical Practitioners who are beyond the second anniversary of their certificate of completion of training.

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.

Our Values

• We work together to make a difference for patients
• We care enough to go the extra mile
• We support, trust, and empower
• We sincerely value each other
• We support primary care to own its destiny

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the PCN/Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the practice or external organisations.
• Assessing the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Contributing to QOF requirements and recording data appropriately.
• Contributing to PCN requirements and recording data appropriately.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health-related illnesses.
• Screening patients for health education.
• Admitting and discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes and contributing to the practice audit programme as required.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions using ESP (avoiding physical or hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the accepted prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Take responsibility for some aspects of the clinical work within the team, for example coordinating aspects of governance, QOF, enhanced services, CPD and keeping clinical protocols up to date.
• In general, the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, as set by Royal College of General Practitioners, General Medical council, all other Royal colleges and councils applicable to the staff within the practice, Department of Health, Clinical Commissioning Groups and all other regulatory and standard setting organisations.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within the NHS, with general public & team working
• Well developed IT skills and an enthusiasm for new applications and software
• Good time management and highly organised
• Ability to use initiative, judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge
• Interest in quality improvement work
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and informative reports
• Gain acceptance for Recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course action where there may be significant barriers.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Qualifications

Essential

• Eligible to work in UK
• Newly qualified GP (no more than 2 years qualified) with no previous substantive post
• Able to carry out duties with or without premises adaptation
• GMC registration
• Other postgraduate qualifications (Minor Surgery, Education, Family planning etc)

Other

Essential

• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence
• Immunisation status - Hep B / MMR

Employer details

Employer name

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC

Address

1A, Civic Centre, High Street

Uxbridge

Middlesex

UB8 1UW