Salaried GP

Severnbank Surgery; Lydney; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Lydney seeks a salaried GP to join a friendly team for 4 to 6 sessions a week. Responsibilities include managing a diverse caseload and conducting consultations in a fulfilling primary care setting. The ideal candidate will have experience in UK General Practice and be committed to delivering high-quality care. A competitive salary and generous leave entitlement are offered, along with a supportive work environment.

Benefits

6 weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays

Study leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a UK General Practice.
• Delivery of clinical audit.
• QOF management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs.
• Conduct surgery consultations and telephone consultations.
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undiagnosed problems.
• Develop care plans with patients.

Skills

Team Player

Calm under pressure

Friendly and inclusive

Commitment to development

Education

GMC registered, not subject to suspension

Currently on Performers List

Clear enhanced DBS check

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Severnbank Surgery is a small, friendly team consisting of 2 Partners and an experienced team of Practice Nurses, HCAs, Dispensary and admin staff. We are situated in the picturesque Forest of Dean in a modern, purpose-built premises with on-site parking and a short walk from the town of Lydney.

An opportunity has arisen for a salaried GP to join ourfriendly and supportive Team, for four to 6 sessions a week, to be worked over 2-3 days.

Annual leave entitlement is pro rata and will be 6 weeksper year plus bank holidays, with a further weeks study leave. We offer acompetitive salary based on experience.

Main duties of the job

Our Practice list size is approximately 3,800 patients. We are a dispensing practice and are rated good by CQC. We are a part of the West Forest of Dean Primary Care Network.

The main duties of this role are detailed in the Job Description.

We welcome informal visits and enquiries so please contact Dr Tristan Lench or Val Huxley, [e-mail] for any further information.

About us

We are a Systmone practice and have a great team of dedicated administrative and clinical staff and are proud to provide excellent clinical care to our patients.

We are an active GP training practice.

Further information about Severnbank Surgery can be found at: https://severnbanksurgery.co.uk

Job responsibilities

Jobsummary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range ofhealth needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of carefor all registered and temporary patients.

Clinicalresponsibilities:

• Inaccordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder willmake themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, includingsurgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visitingpatients at home (on occasions), checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealingwith queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers withinthe organisation
• 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 withcurrent practice disease management protocols
• Providingcounselling and health education
• Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to othercare providers as appropriate
• Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collectingdata for audit purposes
• Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribingin accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Ingeneral, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normalduties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primarycare.

Otherresponsibilities within the organisation:

• Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, 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, where appropriate.

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 confidenceand have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately
• Inthe performance of the duties outlined in this job description, thepost-holder may have access to confidential information relating topatients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to informationrelating to the practice as a business organisation. All suchinformation from any source is to be regarded 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 & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a fullrange of promotion and management of their own and others health and safetyand infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy,the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policyand published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to practiceguidelines
• Awarenessof national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/ contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Providingadvice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process,including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and cleancontainers, storage and transport arrangements
• Correctpersonal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correctuse of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use byclinicians, staff and patients.
• Managementof the full range of infection control procedures in both routine andextraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectiouscircumstances)
• 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 relationto infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring thatprocedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified,escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
• Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in away that manages those risks across 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 controland patient processes
• Monitoringpractice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc.,and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical workingenvironment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to theresponsible manager
• Safemanagement of sharps use, storage and disposal
• Maintenanceof own clean working environment
• Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in atidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation ofremedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsiblemanagement
• Activelyidentifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards andinfection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keepingown work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile,identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areaswithin the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance ofgeneral standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation(where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertakingperiodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
• Correctwaste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, andcontainer use
• Maintenanceof sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting thewelfare of children.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights ofpatients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Actingin a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpretingthem in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,and current legislation
• Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmentaland respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance atany courses and/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 takingresponsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/orprofessional development
• Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance anddemonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similarwork.

Quality:

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

• Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directlyor under supervision
• Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activitiesand making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teamsperformance
• Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder shouldrecognize the importance of effective communication within the team and willstrive to:

• Communicateeffectively with other team members
• Communicateeffectively with patients and carers
• Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

• Applypractice policies, standards and guidance
• Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelineswill affect own work
• Participatein audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GMC registered, not subject to suspension
• Currently on Performers List
• Clear enhanced DBS check

Experience

• Experience of working in a UK General Practice
• Delivery of clinical audit.
• QOF management
• Experience of using SystmOne

Skills/Abilities

• Team Player
• Calm under pressure
• Friendly and inclusive
• Commitment to development

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.