Salaried GP- 6 Sessions per week in Daventry

We are looking for someone who has excellent clinical skills to play an active role in our friendly semi-rural GP practice. The practice has an approachable dynamic Partnership and offers professionally rewarding working conditions centred on a patient holistic ethos. Supporting you in your role is an excellent clinical and administrative team and a highly effective management structure:

• Generous Annual Salary & NHS Pension Scheme
• 39 days Holiday a Year (pro rata)
• Free Car Parking
• Low visiting rate
• Personal List
• Support towards developing areas of special interests
• Partnered with Buckingham University (Medical Students)
• Focus on peer support and shared learning
• A good working environment

Also adjacent to the Practice operating independently is Head Start Day Nursery & Boots Chemist.

Main duties of the job:

• Undertake Consultations in all clinical settings as directed. These consultations will cover the breadth of the Practices GMS and Enhanced Service obligations and you will be expected to support the Partners in providing such services as outlined in the GMS Contract and any national, directed or local enhanced services.
• Maintain and keep good standards of clinical records at all times and to work within Practice policy for prescribing.
• Required to give due regard to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and Investment and Impact Fund (IIF).
• Share the daily responsibility of checking and signing prescription requests, dealing with patient queries and providing clinical supervision to the nursing team, registrars, medical students and support to the management team and administrative staff as appropriate.
• Support and input into the aims of the Practice in areas including clinical governance, best practice, clinical audits.
• Participate in immunisation and vaccination programmes for individual patients in line with local and national guidelines.
• Administer First Aid including resuscitation if required.
• Receive and refer patients when appropriate.
• Understand and adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Practice.
• Update the computerised records by coding activities appropriately.
• Join in a duty rota system within the clinical team, share visiting patients and cover for colleagues by undertaking extra shifts when required.

About us:

We are a friendly practice, offering a supportive and collaborative team environment, where we encourage learning, development and personal growth. Our practice list is about 13,000 patients so small enough for you to know our patients well. We are also part of the Daventry Primary Care Network (31,000 patients) so we can offer the best of both worlds - a small country practice, yet with the support of a large PCN network behind you so you can concentrate on patient care. The practice itself is located in close proximity to Daventry Town centre in a modern purpose-built Primary Care Facility (2006) and adjoins Danetre Community Hospital which offers a wide range of in-patient and out-patient services including x-ray. The building has provided our team with a contemporary working environment which has allowed the Practice to flourish and we envisage continued growth and development in coming years. Our transport links are great - Based in the midlands it is an easy place to commute to (easy links with the M1, M45, M6, M40, M42).

Job responsibilities:

• Provide primary healthcare services to Patients in all required environments.
• Participate in Practice activities including clinical and staff meetings, audits, and relevant CPD activities.
• Have a role in the development of the Practice.
• Contribute to the Practices activities relating to its functions of training and research.

You will be expected to:

• Undertake Consultations in all clinical settings as directed.
• Maintain and keep good standards of clinical records at all times and to work within Practice policy for prescribing.
• Work to the systems and processes developed by the Practice both clinical and non-clinical.
• Give due regard to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and Investment and Impact Fund (IIF).
• Share the daily responsibility of checking and signing prescription requests, dealing with patient queries and providing clinical supervision.
• Support and input into the aims of the Practice in areas including clinical governance, best practice, clinical audits.
• Participate in immunisation and vaccination programmes for individual patients.
• Administer First Aid including resuscitation if required.
• Receive and refer patients when appropriate.
• Understand and adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Practice.
• Update the computerised records by coding activities appropriately.
• Join in a duty rota system within the clinical team, share visiting patients and cover for colleagues by undertaking extra shifts when required.
• Any other duties that may be required of you to ensure service requirements are met.

This job description is subject to constant changing needs within the work situation and will be reviewed annually in consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification:

• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality.
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and initiative.
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own.
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team.
• Pleasant and articulate.
• Forward thinking.
• Able to work under pressure.

• Eligible to Practice independently as a GP in the UK.
• Full GMC Registration with GP Registration.
• Entry onto the Medical Performers List.
• MRCGP Qualified GP Trainer.

• Knowledge/Skills Experience of working within UK Primary Care within the last 3 years.
• General understanding of the GMS contract, and in particular the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Word processing, Spreadsheet applications, Email.

• Membership of a recognised medical indemnity organisation.
• Flexibility of working hours/able to work at the desired times.
• Willingness to attend occasional meetings away from the 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.

£10,500 to £11,000 a session depending on experience.