Salaried GP

Lowfield Medical Centre; Dartford; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A busy NHS Training Practice is seeking a Salaried GP to provide comprehensive medical services in Dartford. The role includes managing a diverse caseload, participating in healthcare service development, and ensuring high standards of patient care. Applicants must be registered general practitioners committed to professional development and effective teamwork. Flexible hours with a supportive environment offered.

Benefits

6 weeks annual leave

NHS Pension

MDU/MPS contributions

Study leave as per BMA contract

Qualifications

• Experience managing a caseload in a primary care setting.
• Ability to make autonomous clinical decisions.
• Proficiency in HSE and NICE guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Conducting surgery consultations and emergencies.
• Prescribing and managing patient medications.
• Completing patient records and audits on time.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Patient management

Team collaboration

Time management

Record keeping

Education

Registered General Practitioner

Job description

The post-holder will provide medical services managing a caseload and lead witha wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the higheststandards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

The Practice is looking for 6 sessions per week.

Main duties of the job

To support 3 GP partners managing a busy Practice. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part or lead in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse, patient list (practice based commissioning, patient participation and health promotion. (This is a GMS Practice).

Clinicalresponsibilities:

Inaccordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will makehim/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, visitingpatients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing withqueries, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations (e.g.Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice, referral letters NHS/private, paperworkand correspondence in a timely manner.

Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation.

Recordingclear and accurate I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collectingdata for audit purposes and contributing to the Practice audit program as required.

Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.

Prescribingin accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.

Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

We are a busy NHS Training Practice in the centre of Dartford with approxiamately 7400 patients. We have 4 General Practitioners, 2 Practice Nurses and 1 HCAs, 2 GP Assistants and 10 members of staff within the Management, Secretarial, Reception and Administrative Teams.

Job responsibilities

SALARIED GP JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to: The Partners

Hours of work: 6sessions per week

Annual leave: 6 weeksannual leave plus public/bank holidays - FTE or pro rata for Part-Time positions.

Study leave: As per BMA Contract -FTE or pro rata forPart-Time positions.

Salary: Tobe discussed at interview. Includes NHS Pension andMDU/MPS contributions

Rolesummary:The post-holder will provide medical services managing a caseload and lead witha wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the higheststandards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinicalresponsibilities:

Inaccordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will makehim/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, visitingpatients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing withqueries, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations (e.g.Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice, referral letters NHS/private, paperworkand correspondence in a timely manner.

Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation.

Recordingclear and accurate I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collectingdata for audit purposes and contributing to the Practice audit

Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible).

Prescribingin accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.

Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Quality

Thepost-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alertother team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk;participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews.

Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision.

Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.

Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.

Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources. He/she will also contribute to theoverall team-working of the Practice putting the needs of the Practice first.

Prescribe safe and effective medicines managementwhich conforms to

NICE guidance and DHdirectives, Good Prescribing Practice as defined by British National Formulary(BNF) guidance from Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on safe andsecure handling of medicine, operate safe management and regular review for allpatients receiving repeat prescriptions, Controlled Drugs legislation, Sharedprotocols agreed between the ICB and other NHS providers, locally specifiedPatient Group Directions.

Work effectively so as not to exceed the Practiceprescribing budget as

set annually by the ICB.

Comply with targets set within the PrescribingIncentive Scheme.

Contribute to the teams approach which ensuresthat referrals are made for patients to see other medical service providers,ensuring that adequate information is given to personnel to whom the patienthas been referred for proper assessment to be made.

Be supportive of any complaints policy andprocedure to ensure proper investigation and appropriate follow up action inthe event of a complaining being made about any aspect of the service providedor any personal provider of the service.

Other responsibilitieswithin the Practice:

Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOFAssessment of the Practice.

Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice.

Contributing to individual case discussions atclinical meetings and bring examples of cases for group discussion.

Contributing to the organisational development ofthe Practice by contributing to the development of ideas, strategies andpolicies which will promote efficiency and wellbeing of the practice.

Contributingto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.

Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records.

Attendingtraining, Practice & team Meetings and events organised by the practice orother agencies as may be necessary.

Meetall tight timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure thatthe Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g.Quarterly Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF audit etc.)

Confidentiality

Inthe course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respecttheir privacy and act appropriately.

Inthe performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holdermay have access to confidential information relating to patients and theircarers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have accessto information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All suchinformation 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 onlybe divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies andprocedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal andsensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting andmaintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in thepractice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.

Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a waythat manages those risks.

Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills.

Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy andsafe way and free from hazards.

Equality and Diversity

Thepost-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carersand colleagues, to include:

Actingin a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation.

Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and ofthe individual, is

non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

Inaddition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any coursesand/or study days necessary to ensure that professional developmentrequirements are met, the post-holder will participate in any trainingprogramme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such trainingto include:

Participationin an annual individual performance review, annual GP Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining arecord of own personal and/or professional development.

Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Communication

The post-holdershould recognise the importance of effective communication within the team andwill strive to:

Communicateeffectively with other team members.

Communicateeffectively with patients and carers.

Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.

Contribution to the planning and implementationof services

The post holder will:

Applypractice policies, standards and guidance;

Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work.

Participatein audit where appropriate.

Workwith the Partners and Management Team to achieve standards of quality,performance standards, budgets and targets without compromising levels ofpatient healthcare.

Contributetowards the development and implementation of new standards, policies andprocedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (asdirected by NHS/ DoH/ICB, new legislation etc.)

The main duties and responsibilities shown above are not exhaustive butshould merely be regarded as a guide. The post-holder will be expected toconduct any reasonable activities according to the business needs at that time.These will be subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet thechallenging needs of the practice. The post-holder will be expected toparticipate in this process and the practice would aim to reach agreement tochanges.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Practitioner

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.