Salaried GP

Castle Healthcare Practice; Nottingham; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS pension

Teaching practice

Résumé du poste

Castle Healthcare Practice in Nottingham invites applications for an ARRS Salaried GP to join our teaching team. The post offers an immediate start, subject to DBS checks and references, with Wednesday and Friday as essential days and flexibility on other sessions.

You will work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, using SystmOne, and benefit from NHS Pension, ongoing training and the opportunity to contribute to high-quality patient care in a well-established practice.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and performers list are essential.
• Annual appraisal and revalidation are required.
• Eligibility to work in the UK is mandatory.

Responsabilités

• Undertake a variety of GP duties including surgeries, telephone consultations and home visits.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions in line with practice protocols.
• Prescribe within the practice formulary and manage care plans.

Connaissances

Excellent communication skills

Team working

Clinical knowledge

Ability to work under pressure

Formation

Full GMC registration

Performers list registration

Annual appraisal and revalidation

Eligibility to work in the UK

Outils

SystmOne

Description du poste

(Wednesday & Friday are essential workingdays, but the Practice can be flexible with the other sessions)

An exciting opportunity has arisen forus to recruit an ARRS Salaried GP to join our Practice team. The position isavailable with an immediate start, pending satisfactory DBS screening andreferences.

This role is based at Castle Healthcare Practice, where all weekly sessions will be delivered. The post holder will be employed by PartnersHealth under its terms and conditions of employment.

ThePCN can offer a competitive salary, based on experience and access to the NHSpension scheme. We require thatapplicants have already completed their GP training and have the right to workin the UK., as our PCN cannot currently support visa applications.

Closing date: 7th November 2026Applications will be screened as they come into the Practice, therefore youcould be offered an interview prior to the closing date.

Main duties of the job

Clinical responsibilities:

• 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 health care 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
• 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
• 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.

About us

We are a high achieving, forwardthinking and well organised teaching Practice.The team consists of 6 partners, 9 salaried GPs, a PracticePharmacy Team, Practice Based Physiotherapists, 9 nurses and HCAs and acapable and competent administration support team.

The Practice aims to deliver high-qualitycare to over 17,800 patients, using SystmOne.We work from a purpose-built surgery, hosting an extensive range ofextended services. As a training practice, there is an active undergraduate andpost graduate teaching programme in place. We are part of the Rushcliffe PCNand are a high achieving Practice with full QoF and local enhanced serviceachievements. We recently received an OUTSTANDING CQC accreditation.

Job responsibilities

Clinicalresponsibilities:

• Inaccordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder willmake him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties includingsurgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visitingpatients at home, 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
• Inconsultation with patients and in line with current practice diseasemanagement protocols, developing care plans for health
• 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 (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• 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, whereappropriate.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment,patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information inrelation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have theright to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlinedin this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidentialinformation relating to patients and their carers, practice staff andother healthcare workers. They mayalso have access to information relating to the practice as a businessorganisation. All such information from any source is to be regardedas strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers,colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice mayonly be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practicepolicies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection ofpersonal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder willimplement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own andothers health and safety and infection control as defined in the practicehealth & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and thepractice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include(but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within theworkplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards ofinfection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /professional requirements, 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 transportarrangements
• Correct personal use of PersonalProtective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others,advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff andpatients.
• 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 ofaccidental exposure
• Management and advice relating toinfection control and clinically based patient care protocols, andimplementation of those protocols across the practice
• Active observation of current workingpractices across the practice in relation to infection control,cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followedand weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues asappropriate to the responsible person
• Identifying the risks involved in workactivities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages thoserisks across clinical and patient process
• Making effective use of training to updateknowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of othersacross the full range of infection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities andequipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use ismade of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these aresufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack offacilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use, storage anddisposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• Using appropriate infection controlprocedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safeway, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action whereneeded or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, andcorrection of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediatelywhen recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general /patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards /risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assumingresponsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanlinessacross the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsiblemanagers
• Undertaking periodic infection controltraining (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument managementincluding handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments

Equality and diversity:

• Actingin a way that recognizes 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 educationthrough attendance 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Communicate effectively with other teammembers
• Communicate effectively with patients andcarers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternativemethods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to theimplementation 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.

Qualifications

• Performers list Registration
• Full GMC registration
• Annual appraisal and revalidation
• Full clean driving licence and access to car
• Evidence of Tetanus, Polio, Diphtheria, MMR, BCG and Hep B immunity
• Satisfactory DBS check
• Satisfactory references
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Excellent level of clinical knowledge
• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services
• Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF)
• Directed Enhanced Services
• Current knowledge of Department of Health guidelines/National Services Framework/Public Health guidelines
• Clinical and Information governance awareness
• Commitment to life-long learning
• Clinical audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Maintaining patient records at an acceptable standard
• Understanding of clinical coding
• Investigation and diagnostics skills
• Ability to work as a team member and independently
• Able to work in accordance with the GMC guidelines
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Kind, calm, flexible, approachable & friendly
• Sensitive and empathetic
• Good team working skills
• The ability to work under pressure
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Confident to ask for advice and support if you are unsure about anything
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
• Experience of delivering LES in Nottinghamshire
• Knowledge of Nottinghamshire ICB initiatives, including prescribing
• General understanding of the primary care contract
• An interest in a particular disease area and willingness to take a leadership role within it
• Knowledge of SystmOne
• Experience working in a large organisation
• Previous experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Producing and using clinical reports
• Experience of medicines management

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.