Salaried General Practitioner

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Kelleythorpe; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

The Medical Centre, Driffield is seeking a salaried GP to work between 6-8 sessions per week in a busy primary care setting. The post involves managing a varied caseload and delivering high-quality care to registered and temporary patients.

The practice is a training facility with GP trainees from ST1-ST3, offering opportunities for professional development within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Full registration with UK GMC and licence to practise.
• Experience in primary care is desirable.
• Willingness to participate in GP training where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients in a primary care setting.
• Conduct surgery consultations and telephone consultations.
• Visit patients at home as needed.
• Check and sign repeat prescriptions and handle related queries.
• Prescribe in line with practice prescribing formulary or generically where appropriate.
• Record clear consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Contribute to audits and data collection for quality improvement.
• Participate in standard setting and development of computerised patient records.

Job description

The Medical Centre, Driffield, is looking for a salaried GP to work between 6-8 sessions per week. Driffield is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire surrounded by the picturesque wolds, with easy links to nearby York and Beverley and is approximately 10 miles from the beautiful Yorkshire coastline., The practice is a young, enthusiastic team which comprises of 2 partners, 5 salaried GPs, and 4 Advanced Nurse Practitioners. We are a training practice with GP trainees from ST1-ST3., 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. Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone 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 healthcare workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or 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
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

• 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 audit where appropriate.

Experience of working as a 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.

• 1. A good rating from CQC
• 2. High QOF achieving (>99%)
• 3. Above CCG and national average ratings on the GP patient survey
• 4. 3 GP registrars have all remained in the practice and we have a very low staff turnover rate
• 5. Paper light practice using Emis Web. We do participate in extended access which is shared between all GPs working out to approximately 3 weekend sessions of 4 hours totalling 12 hours per year.