Salaried GP

You 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

Main duties of the job

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

surgery consultations, telephone consultations, queries, home visits, repeat prescriptions, dealing with these in a timely fashion.

Assessing healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Promoting and maintaining health and safety for their own and other members of staff

Enthusiastic and committed

Caring and friendly

This list is not exhaustive.

About us

We are a very busy Practice with over 20,000 patients

Committed to offering good practice

We aim to be timely, considerate and responsive to the needs of our patients

Safeguarding our patients to ensure their needs are our top priority

Job responsibilities

Bexley Medical Group

JOBTITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTSTO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE MANAGER(Administratively)

HOURS: TBC

JobSummary:

The post-holder will manage acaseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting,ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporarypatients.

ClinicalResponsibilities:

Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will makehim/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperworkand correspondence in a timely fashion

Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation

Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems

Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health

Providingcounselling and health education

Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate

Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collectingdata for audit purposes

Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribingin accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate

Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilitieswithin the Organisation:

Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice

Contributingto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records

Contributingto the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data

Attendingtraining and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seekingtreatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They doso in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect theirprivacy 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 informationrelating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such informationfrom any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients,carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practicemay only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practicepolicies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection ofpersonal and sensitive data.

Health& Safety:

The post-holder will assist inpromoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security asdefined in the Practice 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 trainingto update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infectioncontrol procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free fromhazards

Equality and Diversity:

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

Actingin a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation

Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/ProfessionalDevelopment:

In addition tomaintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or studydays necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREPare met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implementedby the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participationin an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility formaintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive tomaintain quality within the Practice, and will:

Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk

Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision

Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

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

Communicateeffectively with other team members

Communicateeffectively with patients and carers

Recognizepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contributionto the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

ApplyPractice policies, standards and guidance

Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work

Participatein audit where appropriate

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• Any other qualifications relevant to primary care
• Qualified GP

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.