General Practitioner

Liverpool Practice Vacancy: Dunstan Village Group Practice. Seeking to employ a Full or Part time Salaried GP.

• List size approximately 8000
• 2.5 full time GP equivalent
• Nursing team includes ANP, Nurse Practitioner and Practice Nurses
• Highly efficient and friendly administrative staff
• Integrated PCN Clinical Pharmacists, Physician Associates, 1st Contact Physiotherapists, Mental Health Team and Social prescriber

Start date ASAP, prepared to wait for the right candidate.

Salary negotiable depending on experience and additional qualifications/interests.

Main duties of the job

Variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, queries, home visits, repeat prescriptions, paperwork and correspondence.

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

Job responsibilities

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:

• Make themselves available to undertake surgery consultations, telephone consultations, queries, and home visits as per the practice timetable.
• Check and sign repeat prescriptions and handle queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions regarding presenting problems.
• Assess health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients in line with current practice disease management protocols; manage acute and chronic disease.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate.
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand written prescriptions when possible.
• Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) when clinically appropriate.

Practice CQC regulated activities:

• Diagnostic and screening procedures for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Maternity and midwifery services.
• Treatment of disease, disorders or injury.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Commitment to lifelong 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 and summarising of patient records and read coding patient data.
• Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Health and safety responsibilities.
• Equality and diversity.
• Extended access shifts on a rota basis.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They expect staff to respect their privacy and act appropriately.

The post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients, carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers, and must regard all such information as strictly confidential.

Health & safety responsibilities

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of health and safety and infection control for themselves and others, as defined in the practice policies and published procedures. Duties include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Aware of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Advising on safe specimen handling, labelling, storage and transport.
• Correct personal use and oversight of PPE.
• Managing all incidents of accidental exposure.
• Implementing infection control protocols across the practice.
• Observing current working practices, identifying weaknesses or training needs, and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Managing risks involved in work activities and preparing mitigation plans.
• Utilising training to update knowledge and skills, and training others where required.
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment for infection control compliance.
• Ensuring proper use of hand cleansing facilities and supplies.
• Managing sharps, storage, disposal and maintaining a clean working environment.
• Demonstrating regard for safeguarding and promoting welfare of children.
• Reporting and correcting health and safety hazards promptly.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training at least twice annually.

Equality and diversity

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

• Acting in a way that recognises importance of rights, consistent with practice procedures and policies.
• Respecting privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of all individuals.
• Behaving welcomeingly and non judgmentally, respecting circumstances, feelings and priorities.

Professional development

Participation in an annual individual performance review, maintaining a record of personal and professional development, and demonstrating skills and activities to peers.

Quality assurance

The post-holder will maintain quality by:

• Alerting team members to quality and risk issues.
• Assessing own performance and taking accountability for actions.
• Contributing to team effectiveness by reflecting on activities and suggesting improvements.
• Managing own time, workload and resources effectively.
• Collaborating with individuals in other agencies to meet patient needs.

Communication

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

• Communicate effectively with team members, patients and carers.
• Adapt communication methods to meet alternative needs.

Implementation of services

The post-holder will:

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

Qualifications

• GP

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check to verify any previous criminal convictions.