Salaried GP - General Practitioner

Salaried GP required for 6-8 sessions per week. We are looking for an enthusiastic salaried GP to work at our friendly, well organised PMS teaching and training practice.

We offer:

• Excellent support and personal development opportunities
• Opportunities to gain new skills and knowledge in a friendly learning environment
• Mentorship for newly qualified GPs and other health workers
• Good remuneration package including additional indemnity cover
• Opportunities to teach trainee GPs

GP sessions with a mix of 15 minute (face‑to‑face) and 10 minute (telephone consultation) appointments.

Main duties of the job:

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in working in an inner city environment to join our well established and growing practice. This role will give you the opportunity to work in different settings including 2 nursing homes, as well as a branch surgery, providing GP services to our diverse population. Sessions are a mixture of face‑to‑face and telephone consultations with a mixture of 15 and 10 minute appointments and the opportunity for extended appointments for care planning our more complex patients. You will be providing routine and on‑the‑day appointments as well as total triage, with a weekly duty doctor session, and extended hours evening session. You will have a caseload, and will be proactively caring for patients with multi‑morbidity, home visits, and chronic disease monitoring including working towards QOF and enhanced services. You will complete referrals and ensure letters, prescriptions and results are dealt with in a timely manner. You will have the opportunity to participate in clinical audit and other quality improvement projects. The team meets daily and has a clinical meeting once a week which gives opportunity to discuss patients, as well as undertake ongoing training and teaching. You will also be given the opportunity to help with GP trainee supervision and other teaching and training.

Job responsibilities:

Job Summary: Battersea Fields Practice values its links with the local community, and aims to work in partnership with patients and the local community to provide excellent, patient‑centred health care. The post‑holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients. The post‑holder will also work collaboratively with the other members of the practice team to maximise practice achievement in relation to external clinical and non‑clinical contracts.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post‑holder will make him/her‑self 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 practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Managing patients within the wider MDT and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• 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 practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In general the post‑holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
• Support the practice in the provision of primary care services to a local nursing home.
• The post‑holder will actively engage in maximising the QoF points for the practice at each contact with patients when appropriate.
• Be involved with any Enhanced Services that requires involvement with a clinician.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg 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 practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post‑holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

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

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.

Equality and Diversity:

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

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non‑judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post‑holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual external and/or internal individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post‑holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

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

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post‑holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.
• To cover duties of partner GPs in their absence.
• To represent the practice and partners professionally with the aim of raising the profile of the practice in a positive manner.

Person Specification:

Qualifications: MRCGP

Experience: Enjoys working in a supportive team. Previous experience working in Nursing Home.

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.