Salaried GP in Southampton

Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Hamble Valley Health. The Practice is committed to delivering high quality patient care which requires us to have a supportive and cohesive team. We currently have 6 sessions available in our salaried GP team. The location will be across Hedge End Medical Centre, Blackthorn Health Centre, and Bursledon Surgery. We offer Terms and Conditions equivalent to the BMA model contract. We are happy to consider newly qualified GPs as well as experienced GPs. If you are looking for a new GP role, we very much look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job:

• This post has a base as their main site at Blackthorn Health Centre. On a rolling basis, you will also work in our Urgent Care Centre which is at Bursledon Surgery. This is on a fair share rota.
• You will be our 'operational director' around once every 3-4 weeks, meaning you are the clinical lead for the urgent care centre in the practice. This requires a longer working day (8am to 6.30pm).
• Routine care is generally 13 appointments in the morning and 12 in the afternoon. Mornings are generally 8am-1pm, and afternoons 2pm-6pm.
• You will be responsible for the prescriptions, pathology results and incoming correspondence for your list size. On average, you will manage around 40 prescriptions a week, 20 results a week, and 5 letters a week per session.

About us:

Blackthorn Health Centre and Hedge End Medical Centre have merged and are now known as Hamble Valley Health. Our list size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly concentrated in Hamble, Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide high quality, accessible medical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a supportive and pleasant working environment for clinicians and staff. We are part of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, and offer General Medical Services to our patients. We are a training practice, and take registrar doctors and also teach medical students from Southampton School of Medicine.

The practice has seven Partners. We employ fourteen salaried GPs, five Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nursing team of fifteen, and a reception/admin team of seventy. The practice uses Emis as a clinical system. We are paper light, so scan all incoming correspondence onto patients medical records.

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.
• The post-holder will be expected to work within the primary care team to enhance the service offered to the community, and to manage their illnesses and promote their health.
• The post-holder will hold a list of patients commensurate with their sessions worked in practice.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will 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.
• 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 appropriate coding and use of electronic templates and other electronic systems as agreed.
• Collecting data for audit purposes.
• 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.

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 coding of patient data.
• Contributing to the collection of QOF data and any other targets that the Department of Health or CCG might set.
• Attending training, meetings and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with 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.

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.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will apply practice policies, standards and guidance.

This Job Description will be reviewed periodically and may be amended according to the requirement of health care policies and job requirements.