PCN Salaried GP in Slough

Would you like to join our friendly and resolute team of clinicians and non-clinicians at a large NHS general practice based in Slough, Berkshire? We are looking for a motivated and hard-working newly qualified GP to join our team on a 6 month fixed contract. You will have the opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment, with a diverse committed workforce from different ethnic backgrounds ensuring the quality of our services to our patients is to a high standard.

You will be part of a team of eleven salaried GPs (FRMG & PCN SPINE), who along with eleven GP Partners, are responsible for providing the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical services to our patients across all our four sites. This will include providing consultations, diagnosis, treatment, referral as appropriate, and prescribing medication. You would be based at Farnham Road Practice but would be expected to travel to our other sites within Slough, to be involved in the wider running of the practice, such as participating in clinical meetings and contributing to the development of new services.

Main duties of the job:

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning, and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups to improve their health and facilitate further service development.
• 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 triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions.
• Checking and signing prescriptions dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to: Electronic Prescription Services (EPS).
• Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply).
• Safeguarding reports.
• Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks.
• Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g., for insurance companies).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

About us:

Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG) started as one Practice with two sites and has grown over the years into an outstanding group of three training GP practices that are approved by Health Education England. With four clinical sites based in Slough, we now have a team of over 100 people looking after 38,730 patients. The practice and PCN (SPINE) are committed to innovation in providing high-quality health care for our patients and a protected working and learning environment for our staff. Our team includes pharmacists, nurses, physician associates, paramedics, MSK practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, managers, social prescribers, and care coordinators as well as GPs and a large Patient Services team. This resolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients and, in turn, provides what we believe is a sustainable model of modern General Practice. We have expanded our expertise and have transformed how we provide medical services to try to ensure we meet the demands of Slough's diverse population.

Our vision is simple: Caring for patients, looking after our staff and providing services that tailor to their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership, mentoring, teamwork, communication, problem sharing and solving, support, integrity, fun, training, education, and continued development.

Job responsibilities:

• To provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to the patients registered to the Practices within SPINE Primary Care network, temporary residents and patients presenting for immediately necessary treatment including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.
• 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 triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing prescriptions.
• Dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to: Electronic Prescription Services (EPS).
• Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply).
• Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks.
• 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.
• To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of SPINE PCN by identifying, planning and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups in order to improve their health and facilitate further service development.
• 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 including following the practice policies for coding and recording information.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines.
• A commitment to audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Reporting on Learning events and Significant Events.
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records on EMIS Web.
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and SNOMED-coding patient data.
• Attending practice meetings and contributing as appropriate e.g. with Audit, NICE Guidance and Journal updates at least annually as scheduled.
• Attending any Protected Learning Time sessions provided by either the ICB or SPINE PCN itself.
• Attending training where appropriate.
• Strive to maintain quality within the organisation.
• 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.
• Be an ambassador for SPINE PCN, displaying commitment and loyalty to the PCN at all times and treating internal practice discussions as confidential.

Person Specification:

• Excellent clinical knowledge and an understanding of GP clinical IT systems is desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team and perform effectively under pressure.
• To be highly motivated with excellent consultation skills.
• Excellent timekeeping with a commitment to providing high-quality care.
• A newly qualified GP with experience in Primary care.

Qualifications:

• Registered and licenced to practice with GMC.
• Cited on Medical Performers List.
• 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.