Salaried GP

Would you like to be part of an exciting and growing Practice within Stevenage with an opportunity to design your own job specification to reflect your specialist interest?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring and experienced Salaried GP to join STANMORE MEDICAL GROUP a thriving and high achieving practice with 5 sites within Stevenage.

The successful post-holder will manage 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.

In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, all appointments are face-to-face, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Main duties of the job Clinical responsibilities

• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Develop care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• Provide counselling and health education
• Admit/discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collect data for audit purposes
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Other responsibilities within the organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines (prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety)
• A commitment to life long learning and audit to ensure evidence based best practice
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contribute to the development of computer based patient records
• Contribute to the summarising of patient records and read coding patient data
• Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies

About us We are:-

the largest GP Practice in Hertfordshire with

• 13 Partners
• 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• 24 Nurses
• 1 Nurse Associate
• 5 HCAs
• Supported by an experienced and supportive managerial and administrative team

the only Practice within the well established Stevenage North PCN supported by

• Social Prescribers
• Physiotherapists

a practice with multiple areas of specialism

• diabetes
• respiratory
• ENT
• Mental Health
• Long term conditions
• PCN Management
• Teaching

a practice with its own visiting service

a training practice for GP registrars

Job responsibilities STANMORE MEDICAL GROUP

JOB DESCRIPTION

ACCOUNTABLE TOThe Partners (Clinically)The Deputy Practice Manager(Administratively)

HOURS/SESSIONSTo be confirmed Monday to Friday (6 8 sessions per week)

LOCATIONStanmore Road Health Centre/Canterbury Way/St Nicholas Health Centre/Chells Surgery/Poplars Surgery

JOB SUMMARY

The post-holder will manage 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.

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, all appointments are face-to-face, 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
• 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
• 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.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN THE ORGANISATION

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg 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.

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 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, sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting . click apply for full job details