Salaried GP

Millbrook Medical Centre; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

A local medical practice in Liverpool is seeking a Salaried GP to join a dynamic team. The role involves five sessions per week with competitive pay and offers a supportive environment including a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include patient care, clinical governance, and collaboration to improve healthcare quality. Interested candidates should possess current GP registration and experience in general practice. A fantastic support package is offered, including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Medicash Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Monthly supervision and support

Qualifications

• Current general practice experience with up-to-date GMC appraisal/revalidation.
• Experience of service development and quality management.
• Ability to work on own initiative and within a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care including face-to-face and remote clinics.
• Collaborate on quality improvement and risk management.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including nurses and pharmacists.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical governance

Communication

Education

Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Registered GP with GMC

Included on the GP Performer's List

Job description

MillbrookMedical Centre is a large, well-established and busy training practice in theheart of Kirkby working to challenge health inequalities and deliver a widerange of services to its patient population.

We have anexciting opportunity for a 5 session Salaried GP to join our dynamic, forward thinking and friendly team and inreturn offer a fantastic support package.

The post is for5 sessions per week and in return we offer £11,961 per session, 1 PD in every9, monthly supervision and daily Supervising GP support as well as MedicashHealth Cash Plan and free Employee Assistance Programme.

Our Salaried GP's undertake a mixture of face to face and remote clinics as well as home visits and Supervising GP duties (on a rotational basis).

Appointments are a mixture of same day and pre-bookable all of which are triaged by our trained Care Navigators with Lead GP oversight. You will also be supported by a team of Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician, Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomist as well as staff employed via the ARRS scheme.

Main duties of the job

To support the Practice to continue to embed effective risk managementprocesses and systems to enable quality improvement and ensure learning fromserious incidents and complaints.

To undertake analysis of themes and trends from incidents, complaints,audits etc.

Collaborate onimproving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policyinitiatives as appropriate.

Ensure high visibility and accessibility for staff, patients and theirfamilies to and be proactive in identifying and help to resolve specific orrecurrent concerns.

Be aware of and work in line with our Safeguarding Adults and Children'sprocedures.

To be competent in the management of under 18year olds and vulnerable adults working within Fraser Guidelines and mentalcapacity assessments and liaising with the multi-disciplinary team and CCS andlocal safeguarding teams/services as appropriate.

A full job description will be provided upon request.

About us

Millbrook Medical Centre is a large and innovative training practice with a professional and friendly atmosphere.

Our Practice is led by 3 experienced GP Partners and incorporates 51 directly employed staff including GP's, ANP's, PN's, Pharmacists, HCA's, Phlebotomist, 5 strong management team and 23 strong admin team.

Our mission is to provide outstanding healthcare to our patients by putting them at the heart of everything we do, led by a highly skilled, caring and motivated multi-disciplinary team of staff who encourage a culture of empowerment, openness and collaboration.

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities core work

Thepost holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties toprovide best patient care.

Thiswill involve a maximum of nine clinical and one professional developmentsession pro rata.

Thepost holder will undertake Supervising GP duties in accordance with therota. Details of specificresponsibilities related to this area are in the Supervising GP policy. The post holder will be required to be onsite from 8am to 6.30pm when on this duty.

Otherclinical sessions will include a mixture of face to face and telephone pre-bookableappointments, general follow up appointments and depression/mental healthfollow up slots. The post holder willfulfil these duties in accordance with relevant policies.

Thepost holder will be required to undertake Enhanced Access duties in accordancewith the rota. This will require thepost holder to be on site from 11am to 8pm when on this duty.

Thepost holder will work as part of a team at Millbrook, helping as required withadministration tasks, home visits and dealing with acute and repeatprescription requests.

Personaldevelopment and Docman sessions will take place in practice. This is so the GP s able to attend practicemeetings before or after these sessions.It is also important they are present in the rare case that they mightneed to cover clinical work (for example if a colleague is unwell).

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

Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems.

Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

Developingcare plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with currentpractice disease management protocols.

Providingcounselling and health education.

Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate.

Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collectingdata for audit purposes.

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

Prescribingin accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate.

Ingeneral, the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal dutiesand responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities within the organisation

Attendanceat Millbrook meetings within working hours.

Leadthe MDT in some clinical or contractual areas.This will be with support from a GP Partner and in a mutually agreedarea. This may involve chairing relevantmeetings, developing policies within that area, audit and otheractivities. The post holder will haveaccountability for outcomes within this area.This could involve, for example, palliative care, Doctor training,safeguarding, NICE guidance etc.

Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.gprescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

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

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

Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records.

Contributingto the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.

Attendingtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.

Confidentiality

Inthe course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and othermatters. They do so in confidence andhave the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately.

Inthe performance of their duties outlined in this job description the postholder may have access to confidential information relating to patients andtheir carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to informationrelating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to beregarded as strictly confidential.

Informationrelating to patients, carers, colleagues other healthcare workers or thebusiness of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons inaccordance with the practice policies and procedures relating toconfidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health and safety

The postholder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management oftheir own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in thepractice health and safety policy, the practice health and safety manual andthe practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limitedto):

Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to practiceguidelines.

Awarenessof national standards of infection control and cleanliness andregulatory/contractual/professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.

Providingadvice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, includingcollection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storageand transport arrangements.

Correctpersonal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use ofPPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,staff and patients.

Managementof the full range of infection control procedures in both routine andextraordinary circumstances (e.g pandemic or individual infectioncircumstances).

Handhygiene standards for self and others.

Managingdirectly all incidents of accidental exposure.

Managementand advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient careprotocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice.

Activeobservation of current working practices across the practice in relation toinfection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that proceduresare followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues asappropriate to the responsible person.

Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a waythat manages those risks cross clinical and patient process.

Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate andmanage the training of others across the full range of infection control andpatient processes.

Monitoringpractice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuringthat proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities wipes etc, and that theseare sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated asappropriate to the responsible manager.

Safemanagement of sharps use, storage and disposal.

Maintenanceof own clean working environment.

Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy,clean and sterile and safe way free from hazards. Initiation of remedial/corrective actionwhere needed or escalation to responsible management.

Activelyidentifying, reporting and correcting health and safety hazards and infectionhazards immediately when recognised.

Keepingown work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifyingissues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business,and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards ofcleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) withresponsible managers.

Undertakingperiodic infection control training (minimum twice annually).

Correctwaste and instrument management, including handling, segregation and containeruse.

Maintenanceof sterile environments.

Demonstratedue regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity

The postholder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers andcolleagues, 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.

Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental andrespects their circumstances feelings, priorities and rights.

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

Participationin an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility formaintaining a record 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Certificate of MRCGP.
• Registered GP with the GMC (included on the GP Register).
• Included on the GP Performer's List.
• Possess the right to work in the UK.
• Certificate of satisfactory immune status i.e Hep B and other relevant viruses.
• FRSH LoC SDI.

Experience

• Current general practice experience with up to date GMC appraisal/revalidation.
• Experience of service development.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of monitoring, collating and advising on all aspects of quality, patient safety and risk management.
• Ability to relate well to challenging patients, carers, relatives and staff.
• Experience of working with socially deprived, nursing home, chronic medical conditions, mental health and HIV positive patients.
• Knowledge of clinical governance, confidentiality, data protection and information governance in primary care.
• Ability to work on own initiative and within a team.
• Knowledge and adherence to the CQC Fundamental Standards.
• Experience of working in sexual health, gynaecology, or a related area of practice.

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.