Salaried GP

Victoria Cross & Eldene Surgery; Swindon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Swindon seeks a salaried GP to manage a caseload and provide high-quality care. The role entails working 4 sessions weekly on Mondays and Thursdays, conducting patient consultations and ensuring adherence to confidentiality standards. The ideal candidate should have a medical degree, GP training, and solid experience in Primary Care. This position offers a collaborative environment, minimal paperwork, and no extended hours.

Qualifications

• Robust experience in Primary Care and GP settings.
• Eligibility to work as a GP in the UK.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload in a primary care setting.
• Conduct surgery and telephone consultations.
• Ensure patient confidentiality and data protection.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Patient management

Communication skills

Infection control knowledge

Education

Medical degree

GP training

Job description

Victoria Cross Surgery is looking for a salaried GP to join our team. We are looking for someone to work 4 sessions a week on a Monday and Thursday.

Main duties of the job

Our contract for salaried doctors includes a defined workload with a fixed number of patient contacts, no extended hours and minimal paperwork.

We are keen to hear from doctors who want to be part of a happy, experienced, positive team.

About us

Victoria Cross Surgery including branch site Lakeside Practice is part of Brunel PCN5 along with Eldene Surgery and Abbey Meads Medical Practice including branch site Penhill Surgery.

Job responsibilities

REPORTS TO: Senior Partner (Clinically) & Managing Business Partner(Administratively)

HOURS: 4 Sessions Per Week - Monday & Thursday

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload anddeal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for 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, 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, 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 dutiesoutlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carers, practicestaff and other healthcare workers.They may also have access to information relating to the practiceas a business organisation. All such information from any source isto be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients,carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practicemay only 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 of 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 withinthe workplace 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 ofinfection control procedures in both routine and extraordinarycircumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self andothers
• 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 toupdate knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training ofothers across 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, storageand disposal
• 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, andcorrecting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediatelywhen recognised
• Keeping own work areas andgeneral/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues andhazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, andassuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards ofcleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) withresponsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection controltraining (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management,including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguardingand 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:

• 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 continuededucation through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary toensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, thepost-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practiceas part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participationin an annual individual performance review, including takingresponsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professionaldevelopment
• Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance anddemonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similarwork.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintainquality 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 should recognise the importance of effectivecommunication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other teammembers
• Communicate effectively with patientsand carers
• 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.

General:

The above duties are neither exclusive norexhaustive and the post holder may be required to take on other dutiesappropriate to the role.

The Senior Partnerreserves the right to amend this job description in consultation with the postholder.

Person Specification

Experience

• GP
• Experience of working in Primary Care

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.