Salaried GP (12 Month Maternity Cover)

NHS Jobs; Chorley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Library House Surgery in Chorley is seeking a General Practitioner to manage a busy clinical caseload in a primary care setting, providing high-quality GP services to registered and temporary patients.

The post holder will work under GP Partners and the Practice Manager, with responsibilities including patient assessments, prescribing, referrals, home visits, and participation in quality and governance activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide GP services as part of the GMS contract for Library House Surgery.
• Manage a busy clinical caseload while maintaining high standards of care.
• Record clear IT-based consultation notes and maintain patient records.
• Attend weekly clinical meetings and participate in personal development.
• Ensure confidentiality and data protection in all patient interactions.

Job description

Reporting to: GP Partners and the Practice Manager on organisational and administrative issues. Accountable to: GP Partners. Role summary: The post-holder will provide general medical services managing a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. Location: Library House Surgery. Main purpose of the role: to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload.

Key Working Relationships

• Primary Health Care Teams including ANPs, Practices Nurses, HCAs, Community Nursing Teams, Community Mental Health Care Teams, Social Services, statutory and voluntary services.
• Local GP colleagues and Chorley & South Ribble CCG GP Partners, Management Team.

Clinical responsibilities

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake clinical sessions. A clinical session is normally composed of 12 face to face appointments, followed by a variety of duties including queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, actioning test results, medical reports and examinations (e.g. insurance companies) on behalf of the practice. The above duties should be performed in a timely manner. Appointments will be 15 minutes duration. A student or learner may be attached to you for this session.

• Act upon most alerts (e.g. QOF) and reminders during a routine consultation (15 minutes).
• Provide all GP services required as part of the GMS contract held between Library House Surgery and the commissioning CCG, including all core services.
• Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and referral where appropriate.
• Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice.
• Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff.
• Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
• Adhere to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Record clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities with the practice

• Engaging in appropriate lifelong educational and audit activity in order to maintain clinical competency and performance, including the completion of objectives agreed by yourself and the practice, in an annual Personal Development Plan.
• Your Personal Development Plan must be in line with the Practice Development Plan.
• Actively participating in the training and development of nurses, medical students and GP trainees in the practice.
• Supporting the practice staff and responding to requests for advice and assistance from the practice reception, secretarial and nursing staff.
• Attend prescribing, palliative care, clinical and practice meetings.
• You will be expected to take part in clinical meetings on a weekly basis.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice.

General Duties

1. To be available to take over the responsibility of patient care from the Out of Hours service at 0800 on a working day or where applicable maintain responsibility till the appropriate time when the Out of Hours service takes over care in the evening.
2. To continue to work until all clinical tasks have been completed. To make arrangements with others to cover when planning to leave before the end of the session.
3. To maintain the financial security of the organisation by ensuring accurate and efficient responses to income generation such as reports, dispensed prescriptions, private forms etc.
4. At all times to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care and the development of a team spirit.

Confidentiality

In the course of 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 Company as a business organisation. All such information from any source is regarded as strictly confidential.

Data Protection

Library House Surgery is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. You must not at any time use the personal data held by the organisation for a purpose not described in the Register entry or disclose such data to a third party. If you are in any doubt regarding what you should or should not do in connection with the Data Protection Act, then you must contact your line manager or appropriate senior lead at the time.

Flexibility

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post-holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude towards the duties outlined which may be subject to amendment at any time in consultation with the post-holder and in line with the needs of the organisation. The post holder may be required to fulfil other duties, as agreed with the practice manager to meet the needs of the organisation.

Health & Safety

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Reporting potential risks identified.

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 peoples 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.

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 are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review at practice level and an external annual NHS GP Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of their own personal and/or professional development. Any time preparing for the appraisal or conducting the appraisal may be taken from the employees annual study leave entitlement. Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

• Participating in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit and the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk.
• Participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews.
• 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 teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise 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 peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.