Salaried GP

King George Surgery; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare practice in Stevenage is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Salaried GP to join their team for four sessions per week. The practice, with a patient list of 24,000, offers a supportive environment and a commitment to providing high-quality care while maintaining a good work/life balance. Applicants should be fully qualified GPs and are encouraged to bring special interests to the role.

Qualifications

• Clinical experience in managing diverse health needs.
• Willingness to participate in training and quality improvement.
• Ability to develop care plans and provide health education.

Responsibilities

• Conduct patient consultations in various formats.
• Manage a caseload and ensure quality care.
• Participate in clinical audit and quality assurance.

Skills

Experience in working in a GP Practice

Strong communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Fully qualified GP with GMC Registration

Annual Appraisal & revalidation

Registered on the NHSE medical performers list

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within King George & Manor House Surgeries for us to recruit a new four session Salaried GP. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Salaried GP to join our practice team on a Monday & Thursday each week. We would welcome applications from established or newly qualified GPs. Our practice is currently a stable eight GP Partnership. We have a mix of full time and part time Partners. We are a hardworking, democratic and supportive Partnership and we pride ourselves on a fair approach to the clinical and administrative workload. We have a commitment to providing high quality clinical care for our patients, while maintaining a good work/life balance.

Main duties of the job

• Morning & Afternoon Sessions
• Defined workload with your sessions, including Face to Face and telephone consultations
• Pro rata share of On Call/Duty
• Allocated administration time to assist with Clinical Letters & Pathology Results
• Allocated time to assist with GP Trainee Support

About us

• Patient list size - 24,000;
• GMS, part-dispensing practice;
• Two sites in Stevenage. Old Town & Chells Manor.
• Accredited GP Training Practice
• Cambridge University Clinical Student Training Practice.
• Excellent supporting administrative and clinical teams including: Practice Nurses, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, Musculoskeletal Practitioner, Social Prescriber, Care Co-Ordinator & Pharmacists. Our administrative team provide full workflow optimisation to support the GPs with incoming correspondence.
• SystmOne computer system incorporating Ardens & ICE
• Part of Stevenage South PCN
• Positive CQC report.
• Special interest are practiced and encouraged.

Informal visits by prior agreement are welcome. Please contact our Practice Manager, Geoff Bartram.

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)

SESSIONS: 4

Job Summary:

We are looking for a quality driven and motivated GP with energy and positivity a good sense of humour to join our friendly practice team for 4 sessions a week. Our practice list size is 24,000 patients and we good support with ANP Clinical pharmacists and many more.

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wider range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standard of care for all registered.

Clinical Responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone, video consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, duty doctor, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Innovative ways of working. E-consult triage.

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.

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.

Providing counselling and health education.

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.

Collecting data for audit purposes.

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible).

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary and Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care Board (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.

To be a part of Qof, IIF, Des, Les, ECF and any other areas that our local Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care Board introduces to general practice.

To work paper light.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

A commitment to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.

Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.

Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read‑coding patient data.

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

Working closely with our PCN group to achieve good patient care.

Confidentiality:

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

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information 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 only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

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

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements.
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control 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 accidental exposure.
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice.
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed, and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes.
• Monitoring practice 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 working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager.
• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal.
• Maintenance of own clean working environment.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when 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 assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training.
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity:

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

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non‑judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

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

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

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

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in working in a GP Practice

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully qualified GP with GMC Registration
• Annual Appraisal & revalidation
• Registered on the NHSE medical performers list

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

King George Surgery

Address

135 High Street

Stevenage

Hertfordshire

SG1 3HT

Employer's website

https://kinggeorgesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)