Salaried GP in Manchester

We're excited to offer a salaried GP role to join our team for up to 10 sessions per week. We may consider job share with up to 2 GPs.

Locally competitive remuneration, low home visit rate and no care home responsibilities. We operate a modern on-line Total Triage Hub model. Morning post-surgery debrief, collaborative working, and coffee. We hold the gold standard for Pride in Practice. Highly accredited training practice. Part of a growing and successful PCN. Significant capacity and enthusiasm to develop your portfolio.

Our services include Diabetes clinics, Baby clinics, Minor surgery, Family Planning clinics and in-house pharmacy reviews. The postholder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality, patient-centred general medical services to the practice population.
• Undertake a mixture of face-to-face, telephone and video consultations, supported by the practice's total triage model.
• Act as the daily Duty Doctor (Doctor On Call) on a rotational basis, overseeing the management of urgent same-day clinical demand.
• This involves clinically triaging incoming patient requests through the total triage system, determining the most appropriate outcome, including self-care advice, signposting, administrative resolution, telephone consultation, same-day assessment, routine appointment booking, or referral to other healthcare professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
• Prescribing in accordance with the accepted prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Effective management of long-term conditions.
• Review and action pathology results, correspondence, DOCMAN, prescriptions using EPS and other clinical tasks in accordance with practice protocols.
• Participate in clinical meetings, quality improvement initiatives, teaching, and service development activities.
• Contribute to the achievement of QOF, enhanced services and other contractual requirements.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and comprehensive clinical records using the practice clinical system.
• Participate in practice governance, safeguarding, significant event reviews and continuous professional development.

About us

Ladybarn Group Practice is a large training practice looking to recruit one to two salaried GPs for up to 10 sessions. Successful applicants will be joining a sociable, ambitious, and progressive GP Team of four partners, two practice managers and eight salaried GPs. Our practice list of over 12,400 South Manchester patients will provide an exciting, varied, and cosmopolitan caseload. We adhere to BMA safe working principles and are always interested in changing practice to work smarter not harder!

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the practice timetable, the post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including telephone triage, 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 or external organisations.
• Assessing the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Contributing to QOF requirements and Manchester Standards and recording data appropriately.
• In consultation with patients in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health-related illnesses.
• Screening patients for health education.
• Admitting and 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 handwritten prescriptions whenever possible).
• Take a lead role in some aspects of the clinical work within the team, for example: co-ordinating aspects of governance, QOF, enhanced services, CPD and keeping clinical protocols up-to-date.
• In general, the postholder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, as set by Royal College of General Practitioners, General Medical Council, all other Royal colleges and council applicable to the staff within the practice, Department of Health, NHS England, OCCG and all other regulatory and standard setting organisations.

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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.

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 recognizes the importance of people's 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.

SAFEGUARDING

Ladybarn Group Practice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment. Legislation places a statutory duty on all organisations and professionals to work together in the interest of protecting vulnerable children, young people and vulnerable adults. All healthcare professions, including those staff and volunteers who work within a healthcare setting have a duty to safeguard and support the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and this practice is committed to this principle. The practice will provide training and induction programmes to include safeguarding to all existing and new staff and volunteers to promote these aims and raise awareness of the duties and responsibilities it places on our staff. All health professions working directly with children, young people and vulnerable adults should ensure that safeguarding and promoting welfare forms an integral part of all stages of the care they offer. Other health professionals who come into contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, parents and carers in the course of their work also need to be aware of their safeguarding responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications REQUIRED:

• Full GMC Registration, MBChB or equivalent.
• UK permit or right to work in the United Kingdom.
• GP Vocational or additional experience in general practice.
• Commitment to professional development.
• Knowledge of the NHS.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness.
• Understanding of Clinical governance and quality issues and health and social policy.
• Ability to make good, clear, concise medical notes, both computerised and manual.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to demonstrate good written English and spoken skills.
• A solutions focused approach.
• Ability to listen and empathise.
• Potential to cope with stressful situations.
• Ability to undertake responsibility.
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Understanding of the role of teamwork in providing quality care.
• Trustworthy.
• Flexible and a good time keeper.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Understanding, acceptance and adherence for the need to keep strict confidentiality.
• Ability to use own judgement, resources and common sense.
• Able to work under pressure and within an ever-changing environment.
• Decisive, confident working style with the ability to deal with competing priorities.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Car driver with clean licence.
• Experience in use of EMISWEB.
• Experience in use of Docman.
• Experience of GP clinical systems including Accurx.
• Experience with Total Triage.

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.