Salaried General Practitioner in Houghton-Le-Spring

We are looking for a part time Salaried GP, newly qualified (within 2 years), 2 or 3 sessions per week, 4 hours 10 minutes per session.

Requirements:

• Fully newly qualified GP with MBBS or equivalent
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to providing excellent patient-centered care
• Willingness to collaborate and contribute to a positive team environment
• EmisWeb / E-consult and AccuRx

Main duties of the job:

Duties of the post are to provide a full range of General Medical Services (GMS) as contained within the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include home visits as deemed appropriate. The post holder is expected to support the partners of Houghton Medical Group in providing all services outlined in the GMS Core Contract and in the aims and objectives of the Practice. The holder is expected to support input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and in any other improvement plans as determined by the practice. Your performance in each area will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if appropriate. The post holder is expected to always maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records. Full involvement in any practice training is expected. The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.

About us:

Houghton Medical Group is a well established practice based in Houghton le Spring with an increasing list size, currently just under 9000 patients. We regard ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member of the team is important and receives due respect regardless of position. It is our common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.

Job responsibilities:

The job plan is the document that translates the expectations of the employee and the employer into a working schedule. It ensures that the post delivers its aims and that requirements of the contract of employment are met. It is essential to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role and has the ability to work as an effective person within our team.

Length of session: 4 hours 10 minutes

Duties of the post are to provide a full range of General Medical Services (GMS) as contained within the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include home visits as deemed appropriate. The post holder is expected to support the partners of Houghton Medical Group in providing all services outlined in the GMS Core Contract and in the aims and objectives of the Practice. The post holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice. Your performance in each area will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if appropriate. The post holder is expected to always maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records. Full involvement in any practice training is expected. The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.

Review of Plan:

The Job Plan will be reviewed after 3 and 6 months of employment and will be developed collaboratively between the employer and employee. After this time, it will be subject to annual review, or when there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested by either party.

Scheduling in the Job Plan:

Clinical duties: 2/3 sessions each week, session times to be discussed. Increasingly the practice is called upon to provide telephone consultations and the standard is that one appointment can be converted to a telephone consultation should this be clinically appropriate and the patient's choice. Appointments are scheduled at 15-minute intervals, and you will provide 13 face to face consultations per session. You will be required to make one home visit within the session time specified if required and to be involved in the morning home visit triage rota. You will be expected to deal, on a daily basis, with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time. You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own allocated batch of patients and those that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries related to your consultations). Clinical duties will include seeing people with acute and ongoing chronic conditions. The Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time to complete all administrative duties related to your clinical work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at different rates. Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy. Investigations and referrals should be completed, and associated documents dealt with within appropriate timescales. Results are normally communicated either electronically or by letter. You will be expected to action these on a daily basis for your patients. You will also take a share in dealing with the daily post including correspondence addressed to you and a share of the workload for absent clinicians using the buddy system in place.

Reports:

You will be expected to complete examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the GMS contract on patients known to you. Additionally, you may be expected to complete reports requested by other parties such as insurance companies and employers.

Computerised records:

You will be expected to use appropriate processes for computerised record keeping including computerised clinical templates and protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as determined by the practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains.

Practice Meetings:

Primary Care Team meetings, formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team-based care are held from time to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with the primary care team on a regular basis. These meetings would include child and adult safeguarding, palliative care, clinical governance, QOF etc. The practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence-based medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will be expected to participate in discussions on clinical practice standards, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

Other Areas of responsibility:

Additional sessions: The Practice may agree with a practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified in his or her Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. The extra session(s) shall be remunerated as agreed with the partners. This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and may include any other duties in so far as they are reasonable.

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.