Salaried General Practitioner

Are you a dedicated GP looking for a supportive team, a manageable workload, and genuine work-life balance?

At Lister Medical Centre, we are offering an exciting opportunity for a Salaried GP to join our dynamic, friendly, and patient-centred practice. Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, you will find a welcoming environment where your wellbeing and professional development are genuinely supported.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for managing a caseload and addressing a wide range of healthcare needs within a primary care setting.
• Work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to ensure the highest standards of care for all registered patients.
• To actively contribute to practice planning and decision-making processes. This role therefore encompasses both clinical and organisational responsibilities.
• Screens patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Be available for 'on-call' duties to answer patients' telephone queries or carry out emergency home visits, or surgery consultations as appropriate.
• Carry out procedures in a safe manner by following best practice and infection control policies.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs.

About us Lister Medical Centre is based in Harlow, Essex.

We are a well-established, friendly teaching practice, and our dedicated team includes 8 GPs, 4 Emergency Care Practitioners, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 Nursing Associates, 2 Physician Associate, 4 HCAs and 17 admin/support staff. We have been providing a full range of GP services for over 30 years and have a patient list size of over 21,000 patients.

As a teaching practice, we have Foundation Doctors and Students from Cambridge University based with us.

We are situated in a purpose-built health centre close to local amenities.

Job responsibilities Lister Medical Centre

JOB DESCRIPTION

ACCOUTABLE TO:All Partners at thePractice

RESPONSIBLETO:The Partners (clinically)and the Practice Management Team

(administratively)

HOURS OFWORK: Sessionsto be confirmed

RENUMERATION: Depending on experience

LOCATION: Lister Medical Centre,Abercrombie Way, Harlow, Essex CM18 6YJ

MAINPURPOSE OF POST: Toprovide a point of contact for patients and act as a focal point ofcommunication between patients, doctors and other medical staff.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST

The Salaried GP is a key member of the clinical team,responsible for managing a caseload and addressing a wide range of healthcareneeds within a primary care setting. The post holder will work collaborativelywith clinical and non-clinical colleagues to ensure the highest standards ofcare for all registered patients.

In addition to clinical duties, the post holder willactively contribute to practice planning and decision-making processes. Thisrole therefore encompasses both clinical and organisational responsibilities.

Clinical Responsibilities

• In accordance with the Practicetimetable, as agreed, the post holder will make themselves available toundertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephoneconsultations and queries, visiting patients at home, issuing and signingrepeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence ina timely fashion.
• Makes professionally autonomousdecisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referredinternally within the Practice.
• Receives patients withundifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and makes assessment of their healthcare needs.
• Screens patients for disease riskfactors and early signs of illness.
• Develops care plans for health inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease managementprotocols.
• Provides counselling and healtheducation.
• Prescribes in accordance with the IntegratedCare Board (ICB) prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Admits or discharges patients to andfrom caseload and refers them to other care providers internally or externallyas appropriate.
• Complies with relevant Practicepolicy/guidelines, e.g. Child Protection, confidentiality issues etc.
• Is committed to lifelong learning,audit and effectiveness issues to ensure evidence based best practice.
• Maintains GMC registration.
• Ensures continuous Medical Defencecover.
• Ensures inclusion on a localPerformers list.

Other Responsibilities within the Practice

• Consults with patients in the surgeryand at home visits as agreed internally between all partners.
• Be available for on-call duties toanswer patients telephone queries or carry out emergency home visits, orsurgery consultations as appropriate.
• Contributes to the evaluation/auditand clinical standard setting with colleagues.
• Records clear and contemporaneousI.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Complies and issuescomputer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-writtenprescriptions whenever possible)
• The post holder will be expected toundertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GPworking within primary care.
• Contributes to the strategicmanagement and development of Practice e.g. in developing and contributing toPractice policies and guidelines.
• Attendance at training, Practicemeetings and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.
• Meets all tight timescales/deadlinesfor audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets qualitystandards and receives the designated funding (e.g. Quarterly Enhanced Servicesreturns, annual QOF audit etc.)
• Ensuring full accreditation whichwill include full and unrestricted registration with the GMC, membership of anappropriate defence body and delivery of annual evidence for appraisal oraccreditation purposes in keeping with National requirements at any time.
• A committed to life-long learning andaudit to ensure evidence-based best practice.

Infection Control

• The post holder will be aware of theprinciples of preventing healthcare acquired infections by their practice ofaseptic technique/clean as appropriate.
• The post holder will carry outprocedures in a safe manner by following best practice and infection controlpolicies.
• The post holder will be responsiblefor maintaining up to date knowledge of safe practice with regards to infectioncontrol.
• The post holder will follow PHEguidance on Infectious Disease notification.

Confidentiality An understanding, acceptanceand adherence to the need for strict 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 havethe right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the dutiesoutlined in this Job Description, the post holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staffand other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relatingto the practice as a business organisation. All such information from anysource is to be regarded as strictly confidential and information gained mustnot be communicated to other persons except in the recognised course of duty.Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information will result in disciplinaryaction and may lead to dismissal.

Health & Safety

The post holder must be aware of the responsibilitiesplaced on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) to ensure thatthe agreed procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment forpatients, visitors and staff.

The post holder will assist in promoting andmaintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in thePractice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systemswithin the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved inwork activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages thoserisks
• Making effective use of training toupdate knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection controlprocedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Equality and Diversity

The post holder will support the equality, diversityand rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that is welcoming toand of the individual, is non-judgmental and recognises the importance ofpeoples circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights, interpreting them in away that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity,needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education throughattendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure thatprofessional development requirements are met, the post holder will participatein any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of thisemployment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individualperformance review, annual GP Appraisal including taking responsibility formaintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for owndevelopment . click apply for full job details