ARRS Salaried GP for Connexus PCN

Connexus PCN is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated ARRS GP to support the 5 practices on a rotational basis, working across only 2 sites at any one time. This role is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified GP (less than 2 years qualified) to gain experience across different practices whilst having the security, support and benefits of a salaried role.

Main duties of the job

In accordance with the Practice session timetable, the successful applicant will beavailable to undertake a variety of duties including on site and telephoneconsultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports andcorrespondence in a timely fashion.

The successful candidate will also support or lead on duty sessions, assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated andundiagnosed problems, prescribe in accordance with the BNSSG and Practice prescribingformulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate, support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPsand nurses with clinical queries and participate in proportionally shared Enhanced Access (EA) hours(to be discussed) along with the other clinicians within the business.

About us

Connexus Primary Care Network brings together five GP Practices serving 50,000 patients in the Brislington, St Annes, Knowle, Totterdown and Stockwood areas of South Bristol. The PCN is located within South Bristol locality of the BNSSG Integrated Care Board and employs a small team of staff that are responsible for delivering a range of clinical services under contract with NHS England. We currently employ Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Clerks, who work closely with Practice employed Pharmacists, GP's and medicines management leads to ensure the provision of high quality clinical services. We have a prescription hub, a primary care pain clinic and many other collaborative projects working across the 5 practices.

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice session timetable, you will beavailable to undertake a variety of duties including on site and telephoneconsultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports andcorrespondence in a timely fashion.

The successful candidate will also:

-Take the lead role of responsible duty doctor as part of a rota.

-Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presentingproblems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workerswithin the organisation.

-Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated andundiagnosed problems

-Prescribe in accordance with the BNSSG and Practice prescribingformulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

-Support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPsand nurses with clinical queries

-Participate in proportionally shared Enhanced Access (EA) hours(to be discussed) along with the other clinicians within the business. Thiscould be early starts, late working or Saturday working (prorata, prebooked andfairly allocated.)

-Adhere to safeguarding requirements and deal appropriately withcomplaints, incidents and alerts using company systems and policies

-Adhere to all company clinical governance policies

-Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreedstandards.

-Collect data for audit purposes and for compliance with QOFrequirements

-Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

-Reflect and assess own and team performance.

-Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs in aperson centred way.

-Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

-Mentor and provide clinical supervision for a multi-disciplinaryteam, this may include APs, Nursing and Administrative teams

-Commit to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-basedbest practice

-Meet CPD requirements and keep personal, mandatory and/ororganisational training up to date, including any training programmeimplemented by the Practice as part of this employment

-Support the practice in achieving contractual targets

-Communicate effectively with other team members.

-Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MBBCh or similar medical qualification
• MRCGP or equivalent
• Full registration with GMC
• Inclusion on National Performers List
• MDO/Medical Indemnity
• Appropriate level of primary care experience Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
• Evidence of leadership in current role eg mentoring, leading safeguarding or prescribing domains or responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes. Evidence of involvement in clinical research in primary care. Evidence of involvement in training GP registrars and/or training and mentoring Allied health care professional staff. Evidence of working with frail or elderly patient or nursing home lead role. Evidence of work addressing health inequalities Evidence of Quality improvement work within 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.

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working