Salaried GP

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, forward thinking individual to join our lovely team. The post holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting.

Our GP Day consists of an AM and PM session with a mixture of 10 and 15 minute face to face and telephone consultations for minor and emergency problems.

You will be supported by an excellent clinical team which comprises 5 GP Partners, 5 salaried GPs, a nursing team who manage chronic diseases and includes GPAs, HCAs and phlebotomists, a pharmacy team and other PCN based teams including social prescribing, physios, a mental health practitioner and frailty nurses.

Our GP Partners here aim to be as flexible as they possibly can and support you.

We are ideally seeking a GP to work regular Wednesdays, with a weekly alternating duty commitment.

Subject to changing GP patterns and mutual agreement, there is potential for the role to expand over time from 2 sessions to 46 sessions.

Main duties of the job

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 non registered patients.

About us

We are a well established and innovative training GMS practice with 2 sites on Cheltenham Road and at Highnam. We have a patient list size of 12,000. Our CQC rating is good.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• The post holder will make himself/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, 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.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate and in keeping with guidelines.
• 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 prescribing formulary and guidelines and with NHS Gloucestershire guidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Participate in the training and supervision of other clinicians (within the post holder's areas of competency).
• 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 policies/guidelines, e.g. 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 surgery or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification Experience

• Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF) and the PCN DES/IIF.
• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience of supporting service change.
• Evidence of participation in Audit.
• Evidence of participation in QOF.

Qualifications

• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
• Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983.
• Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of completion of training CCT).
• Currently on a PCT performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
• Enhanced DBS clearance.
• Have had an annual NHS appraisal.
• Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields.
• MRCGP.
• DCH.
• DRCOG.
• Evidence of CPD activities.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of how the NHS works.
• Have an understanding of the needs of the vulnerable groups of patients that are registered.
• Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary.
• Good analytical skills.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of.
• Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
• QOF.
• Practice based commissioning.
• Audit.
• Fully conversant with EMIS clinical system.
• Fully conversant with Outlook and Office.

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.