Salaried General Practitioner

South Tyneside Health Collaboration; Jarrow, Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Jarrow is seeking a qualified GP to deliver outstanding patient care with flexible working sessions. The successful candidate will collaborate within dynamic practices while supporting clinical governance and improving patient services. This opportunity includes generous leave policies and potential for career development within a supportive environment. Ideal for those aiming for a better work-life balance while making a significant impact in primary care.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Flexible working options

Access to multidisciplinary support teams

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified GP with current UK professional registration.
• Competency in clinical governance and patient care standards.
• Ability to maintain computerized clinical records.

Responsibilities

• Provide a full range of general medical services within GMS contract.
• Support clinical governance and practice audits.
• Maintain documentation and engage in team meetings.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical governance

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Qualified GP

Tools

EMIS

Job description

If you are passionate aboutbeing a GP and delivering outstanding patient care but are looking for a betterwork-life balance, South Tyneside Health Collaboration would love to talk toyou.

South Tyneside HealthCollaboration manages two general practices, one in the beautiful coastalvillage of Whitburn and another, a developing training practice in centralJarrow, with a combined list size circa 8,500.

We host 3 PCNs within SouthTyneside as well as deliver several primary care services such as mentalhealth, spirometry, Covid Vaccinations, Admiral Nursing service and Health and Wellbeingoutreach.

Due to the expansion of patientservices, we are looking for a salaried GP to work 4-8 sessions flexibly acrossthe organisation. The successful candidate will be predominantly based withinour practices, with the potential to develop their career into other areaswithin STHC. We can be flexible with number of sessions and working days forthe right candidate.

For more information about therole please contact [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities

As post holder you will beexpected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMScontract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be expected to supportand input into areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomesframework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any otherimprovement plans as determined by the STHC Clinical director.

You are encouraged to utiliseand develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as childhealth surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would berequired for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subjectto presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintainand keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMCguidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of ourstatus as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to workas duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way.It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home andpractice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by theend of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links andreferrals.

You will be expected to maintainand keep good standards of documentation using EMIS.

About us

Who are STHC?

STHC is a valued system partner, originally set up to enable South Tyneside General Practices to work collaboratively in delivering services at scale across the borough of South Tyneside.

We employ over 100 staff of both clinical and non-clinical roles, across the delivery of our 4 Core Functions:

• Clinical Service Delivery
• Practice Management
• Primary Care Network Hosting
• Business Services

What do we offer?

• A motivated, multi-skilled and engaged workforce with a one-team ethos and a culture of valued and happy staff.
• Family friendly policies and flexible working options to support you in balancing your priorities.
• Resource sharing across 2 GP surgeries.
• Part of a Primary Care Network with access to a range of clinical support roles including Pharmacists, Podiatrists, MSK professionals, Mental Health Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Health Coaches as well as practice teams of highly skilled Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
• Attractive salaried as well as GP lead roles.
• Generous annual leave allowance plus one week of self-managed study leave and protected CPD time.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

As asalaried GP you will be mainly based within our STHC practices, however, youmay be asked to do specific work for STHC as required; there will be excitingopportunities to develop and be involved with projects across South Tyneside.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties of the post are toprovide a full range of general medical services as contained within theNational Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will includedomiciliary visits as deemed appropriate. These visits must be triaged and onlyoffered to genuinely housebound patients.

As the post holder you will beexpected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMScontract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be expected to supportand input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, goodpractice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit,referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by STHC ClinicalLead.

You are encouraged to utiliseand develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as childhealth surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would berequired for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subjectto presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintainand keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMCguidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of ourstatus as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to workas duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way.It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home andpractice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by theend of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links andreferrals.

You will be encouraged tocontribute to the operational and strategic leadership of the practices withinSTHC.

You will be expected to lead inan area(s) of clinical performance and/or service delivery.

1. Review of Job Plan

Your role will be reviewed after3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively betweenthe STHC and yourself. After this time it will be subject to annual review, orwhen there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested by eitherparty.

2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:

Clinical duties:Youare contracted to provide an agreed number of sessions per week, as per yourcontract, but you will be expected to be flexible, in particular during holidayperiods. You have agreed to deliver an agreed number of sessions per week forEnhanced Hours working.

Clinical duties will includeseeing people with both acute and long term conditions, which will also includereviews based on the QOF

You will be expected to becompetent and confident to deliver face to face, telephone, video and email consultation as the practice provides allof these.

Appointments are scheduled at 10minute intervals (which can be changed to longer if appropriate) and you willprovide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, wherethis is clinically appropriate, and additional extra consultations where demandis excessive.

You will be required to makehome visits within the session time, however the actual number of house callsis very low and we have specialist care home practitioners that carry out manyvisits that would otherwise have been undertaken by a GP.

You will be expected to deal ona daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health careprofessionals in your administrative time.

You are expected to follow upresults, x-rays, correspondence related to your own patients and also thosewhich have not been generated by yourself and if necessary, the investigationsand queries related to other clinicians within the practice, however we do havea robust process for the pre-screening and resultant action of allresults/incoming documents so the GP gets very few to act upon.

Referrals should be completed ona daily basis in line with practice policy.

Investigations and referralsshould be completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriatetimescales.

Reports: You will be expected tocomplete examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expectedunder the GMS contract on patients known to you.

Additionally you may be expectedto complete reports requested by other parties such as insurance companies,OFSTED and employers.

3. Computerised records

You will be expected to use EMISbespoke software and follow appropriate processes for computerised recordkeeping, including computerised clinical templates and protocols as well asensuring that significant information as determined by the practice is recordedaccurately e.g. all QOF domains. You will take part in reconciling informationinput periodically.

4. Primary care team meetings:formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team based care are held fromtime to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship withthe primary care team on a daily basis. You will also be expected to attend anynecessary PCN meetings (PCN West) and attendance at the monthly PracticeEducational Events run by ICB are encouraged. There are quarterly staff meetingat Albert Road surgery and it is expected to attend.

5. Personal Development - STHCis committed to the highest standards of evidence based medicine and supportingcolleagues in achieving this. You will be expected to participate using yourPersonal Development Time (dependant on sessions per week) in discussions onclinical practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professionalsupport for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis,meetings with STHC clinical lead, colleagues in the locality, ICB etc. Wherethese occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may berequired.

You may be encouraged to becomeresponsible for particular areas of practice development.

You may be encouraged to beresponsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), BOS work,PCN work, IIF and other local initiatives.

6. Additional sessions: STHC mayagree with a practitioner to undertake work which is not specified in his orher Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. Theextra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis to a full-timepractitioners salary. Any such agreement shall be reviewed when required but atleast annually and will be terminable at three months notice on either side.

7. Leave entitlements: as percontract document

Person Specification

Qualifications

See attached personspecification and JD

Disclosure and Barring ServiceCheck

This post is subject to theRehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will benecessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure andBarring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminalconvictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekerswho require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcomeand will be considered alongside all other applications. For furtherinformation visit theUK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilledworker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had topresent a criminal record certificate from each country they have residedcontinuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adultdependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.Guidance can be found hereCriminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professionalregistration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (Opens in a new tab).

Employer name

Location

South Shields

Employer's website

https://www.thesthc.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified GP.

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.