Salaried GP

PartnersHealth; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Belvoir HealthGroup is recruiting a salaried GP to join its busy rural Rushcliffe practices, working six clinical sessions with a multidisciplinary team including Advanced Practitioners and Partners. Mentorship and Partner development opportunities are available as part of the role.

The post holder will provide safe, evidence‑based care from history taking and clinical assessment through to diagnosis and treatment, within the NHS contracts framework.

Qualifications

• GMC registered and not suspended; on NHS performers list.
• Evidence of CPD and ongoing professional development.
• Experience in or with UK general practice is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide care from history taking to treatment and evaluation.
• Manage a caseload within a primary care setting.
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes and prescriptions.

Skills

GMC Registered

CPD

Teamwork

Communication skills

Tools

Word processing

Excel

E‑mail

Job description

Belvoir HealthGroup are seeking a salaried GP for 6 sessions to work alongside its current teamof Advanced Practitioners, Partners, and salaried GPs.

Belvoir HealthGroup is made up of three busy surgeries in rural Rushcliffe serving 27,000patients and has a multi-disciplined patient facing team. We have a combined workforceof 100 employees and work actively with the PCN to ensure we provide the verybest healthcare.

Main duties of the job

The clinician willprovide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking andclinical assessment through to the diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation ofcare. They will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-makingprocess, including assessment and diagnostic skills, leading to the delivery ofsafe care for all patients.

About us

Our vacancies suitprimary care experienced clinicians keen to work in an exciting, rewarding, anddemanding environment. You will provide safe, clinical decision-making andexpert care. Though Primary care experience is desired, its not a mandatoryrequisition.

Mentorship andsupervision will be provided as well as the chance of Partner development.

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE - SALARIED GP

REPORTS TO - THE PARTNERS

HOURS OF WORK - 6 Clinical Sessions

Job Description

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a widerange of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standardsof care for all registered and temporary patients. Responsibilities willreflect requirements of the NHS GP Contracts, and as such may be subject tochange as services adapt.

Clinical responsibilities

In accordance with the practice timetable, asagreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a varietyof duties including surgery to face, telephone and online consultationsand queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries paperworkand correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions inrelation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from otherhealth care workers within the organisation

Assessing the health care needs of patientswith undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors andearly signs of illness

In consultation with patients and in linewith current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans forhealth

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and fromthe caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneousconsultation notes to agreed standards

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acuteand repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions wheneverpossible)

Prescribing in accordance with the practiceprescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected toundertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GPworking within primary care.

Completion of medical reports (including NHSand private services as required)

Awareness of and compliance with all relevantpractice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, dataprotection, health and safety

A commitment to life-long learning and audit toensure evidence-based best practice

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinicalstandard setting within the organisation

Contributing to the development ofcomputer-based patient records

Contributing to the summarising of patientrecords and read-coding patient data

Attending training and events organised by thepractice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

While seeking treatment, patients entrust uswith, or allow us to gather sensitive information in relation to their healthand other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect thatstaff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined inthis job description, the post-holder may have access to confidentialinformation relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and otherhealthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to thepractice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is tobe 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 implement and lead on a full range ofpromotion and management their own and others health and safety and infectioncontrol as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practicehealth & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy andpublished procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within theworkplace according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infectioncontrol and cleanliness and regulatory /contractual / professionalrequirements, and good practice guidelines

Providing advice on the correct and safemanagement of the specimens process including collection, labelling, handling,use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

Correct personal use of Personal ProtectiveEquipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising onappropriate circumstances for use byclinicians, staff and patients.

Management of the full range of infectioncontrol procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g.pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

Hand hygiene standards for self and others

Managing directly all incidents of accidentalexposure

Management and advice relating to infectioncontrol and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementationofthose protocols across the practice

Active observation of current working practicesacross the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and relatedactivities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / trainingneeds are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsibleperson

Identifying the risks involved in workactivities and undertaking such activities in away that manages those risksacross clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to updateknowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across thefull range of infection control and patient processes

Monitoring practice facilities and equipment inrelation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of handcleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a goodclinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriateto the responsible manager

Safe management of sharps use, storage anddisposal

Maintenance of own clean working environment

Using appropriate infection control procedures,maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free fromhazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalationto responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correctionof health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patientareas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks inrelation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibilityin the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business inconsultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training(minimum twice annually)

Correct waste and instrument managementincluding handling, segregation, and container use

Maintenance of sterile environments

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity andrights of patients, carers and

colleagues, to include

Acting in a way that recognizes the importanceof peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practiceprocedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs andbeliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to andof the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelingspriorities and rights.

In addition to maintaining continued education throughattendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure thatprofessional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder willparticipate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part ofthis employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individualperformance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record ofown personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development,learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others whoare undertaking similar work.

Quality

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

Alert other team members to issues of qualityand risk

Assess own performance and take accountabilityfor own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team byreflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improveand enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in otheragencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload andresources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance ofeffective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients andcarers

Recognize peoples needs for alternativemethods of communication and respond accordingly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GMC Registered, not subject to suspension; Qualified General Practitioner Currently on a CCG performers list Clear enhanced DBS check Evidence of CPD

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and across organisational boundaries in a UK General Practice
• Understanding of NHS systems
• Understanding of challenges and context within primary care Evidence of excellent organisational and planning skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Pro-active approach to change management
• Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS Ability to make clinical decisions based on latest evidence and local/national policies and guidelines
• Able to professionally and appropriately challenge differing opinions as a patient advocate
• Able to give appropriate telephone advice
• Basic IT skills in word processing, excel and e-mail
• Experience in using I.T. based patient documentation systems
• Able to maintain accurate records
• Understanding of Confidentiality and the Data protection Act Understanding of clinical governance and its significance and impact upon practice
• Ability to participate in audit and standard setting
• Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles
• Evidence of experience / competency in the form of a professional portfolio
• Able to work on own initiative, but knows limitations of own competencies

Circumstances

• Car owner/driver, with exclusive access to a vehicle Able to participate in on-call advice and support service Ability to autonomously in the primary care setting

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.