General Practice - Salaried GP

Eagle House Surgery, Enfield, London EN3, is seeking to employ a salaried GP to work up to eight sessions per week, or as a job share of four sessions each between two individuals.

Main duties of the job

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 temporary patients.

About us

Eagle House Surgery is based in Ponders End Enfield on the corner of Nags Head Road and Southbury Road. It has been a medical establishment for over 100 years. We have four partners and 3 salaried GPs together with 2 practice nurses and three HCAs. We are a busy, friendly practice and have approximately 12,100 patients. We have 20 Admin/Reception staff who support all of the clinical team.

Job responsibilities

• 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 temporary patients.
• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, one a week on call 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.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload 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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice 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 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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.

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-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

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 teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• GMC full registration
• Member of defence union (MPS/MDU)
• Currently on a performers list
• Full driving licence

Clinical Experience

• Have worked in general practice/community medicine.
• Experience of multidiscipline team working.

IT Experience

• Experience of GP clinical system EMIS Web.
• Experience of Microsoft office.

Communication

• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to listen and empathise.
• Team working and problem solving.
• Ability to work/lead as part of Multidisciplinary team.
• Problem solving skills and a solution focused approach.

Professional

• Evidence of self-directed learning and consolidation of professional training.
• Clear grasp of clinical governance.
• Understands importance of evidence based practice.
• Good grasp of medical ethics.

Other

• Keyboard skills & computer literacy.
• Drive & Vision.
• Initiative and drive.
• Self-motivated and positive.
• Forward looking.
• Able to work autonomously.
• Self-preservation.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Able to deal with uncertainty.
• Resourcefulness and common sense.
• Recognise own limits and act appropriately.
• Good time management skills & ability to prioritise work.
• Ability to use own judgement and make decisions.

Colleague and patient relations

• Good team player.
• Pleasant.
• Empathic, honest, caring.
• Diplomatic.
• Observance of strict confidentiality.

Other

• Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis.
• Adaptable.
• Knowledge of national and local agendas in respect to primary care.
• Prepared to make a long term commitment to the practice.
• Higher postgraduate membership (e.g. MRCP, DRCOG, DFPDCH).
• Alcohol and substance abuse training.
• Teaching - be involved in the teaching/supervising of medical students and GP registrars in the practice.
• Experience of delivering QOF e.g. A special interest, areas of further study.
• Leadership - Ability to lead in clinical areas/QOF domains within 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.