Salaried GP - 6 sessions in Beaminster

Join a traditional rural practice where we look after our patients from cradle to grave. Where colleagues feel like family and pull together under the constant pressures in the NHS. Where the senior partner will support you, be open to ideas, be flexible and listen. One of the few practices that still offer a paid admin session. Daily coffee catch up with fellow GPs and ANPs. Regular cake and treats. We have worked hard to strengthen our clinical team and constantly support each other to develop our skills. Come and join an amazing team.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a 6 session salaried GP to join us, to replace an outgoing GP. This will be 5 clinical sessions, 1 admin session, ideally days of work to be Monday, Tuesday and Friday. We are total triage, which has improved our access. Monday to Thursday, the triage is done by our experienced ANPs and GPs have appointments. This is a mix of 10 minute telephone slots and 15 minute face to face slots, less than BMA recommended contacts on a routine day. Fridays, the triage rotates round the GPs. Full training is given, but it can be a fun day, lots of variability and complete control of the surgery contacts. We have a visiting service, first contact physio, clinical pharmacist and pharmacy techs. There will be no OOH commitment & extended hours are run by the PCN. All the benefits of wider services through the active PCN but the feel of a traditional family practice. We have an in-house dispensary. Monthly virtual wards, to discuss complex cases and monthly palliative care meetings. Newly qualified GPs are welcome and mentorship offered. Experienced GPs will thrive and remember how it feels to have the patient at the centre of it all.

About us

Our practice, and its location, lends itself to a wonderful quality of life. Easy access to the coast and beautiful surrounding villages. Strong emphasis on work life balance. We are a small friendly practice of 5100 patients, with the added benefit of being a dispensing practice. GP administration burden has been reduced through an external coding company for clinical letters. In addition, we have additional remote GP telephone appointments, as well as an in-house clinical pharmacist and first contact physio provided through the PCN. Currently one GP partner, two salaried GPs (5 clinical sessions and 1 admin session) and one regular locum (1 session) 2 Advanced nurse practitioners (4 sessions each) List size 5100 Dispensing practice Our contracts based on the BMA guidelines. Coverage of medical indemnity by the Practice. 6 Weeks holiday, 1 week study leave Experienced Practice Nurse, HCA, and GPA Consistently high QOF achievement and enhanced services Local Community Hospital (access to MIU and Xray) No Out of Hours responsibility Daily GP coffee catch ups for a chat, clinical discussions, or case sharing. Fortnightly whole staff meetings for staff morale / address any staff issues. Access to pharmacist, first contact physio and social prescribers.

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the salaried GP. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• Consultations, administration, complying with the practice's contract type (GMS)
• Education and training delivery, and private reports for patient list (indemnity provided).

Key responsibilities clinical

• Caring for patients
• Practice evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
• Conduct patient consultations during the practice's clinical appointment hours
• Triage patients on duty day (rolling rota with other GPs on a Friday)
• Conduct telephone consultations
• Check and sign repeat prescription requests.
• Check, manage and process patient test results for your patient list/requests
• Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines.
• Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate.
• Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
• Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle.
• Carry out patient testing and screening as required.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patient health needs.
• Develop and implement practice guidelines, policies, and procedures (if appropriate).

Communication with patients

• Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news.
• Establish appropriate communication methods to suit patients and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method.
• Anticipate and overcome barriers to communication and seek support from other staff members when necessary.
• Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment.

Delivering high-quality services

• Provide services to the practice's patient population, to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct.
• Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking, and evaluation.
• Lead and undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure continual improvement of service delivery (if appropriate).
• Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events and other shared learning activities within a structured framework.
• Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care.
• Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy.
• Work within the practice's legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and apply policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients.

Key responsibilities non-clinical

• Develop and nurture professional and collaborative working relationships with all staff and external stakeholders.
• Ensure the practice and all staff follow best practice, as set out in clinical guidelines, and identified through audits.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and develop new ones, both in the practice and those involving external agencies and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain systems to ensure the efficient running of the practice, such as those to manage staff training, performance, clinical governance, finance, IT, complaints, and equality and diversity.
• Action and refer concerns and issues as appropriate.

Practice-related duties

• Process medical reports, referrals, and correspondence
• Record and collect data for audit purposes.
• Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients.
• Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF.
• Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catchups and contact.
• Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings.
• Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders if appropriate.
• Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate.

Personal and professional development of self and others

• Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
• Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals.
• Prepare for and complete the revalidation process.
• Act as a mentor and positive role model to all members of staff, both clinical and non-clinical, sharing information and good practice.
• Prioritise own workload and collaborate with others to delegate and prioritise team and practice workload.
• Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints, and feedback.
• Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework.
• Lead and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time.
• Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students (if requested).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• UK recognised medical degree
• Completion of FY1/2 and GPVTS program (or equivalent)
• We would welcome a GP straight from VTS, or any level of experience

Experience

• Someone keen to be part of a team. A lot of the day we spend consulting in our rooms, but it is important to have good team relationships, where we can bounce ideas off each other and communicate well.
• Experience of working in a GP practice

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.