ARRS Salaried GP Runcorn

PAR Health Primary Care Network (PCN) is seeking enthusiastic, compassionate and forward-thinking GPs to join our supportive and innovative team. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a collaborative environment where you will receive mentorship, protected learning opportunities and the support needed to thrive. This opportunity is ideal for a GP seeking additional sessions and an opportunity to develop a portfolio career. The role offers excellent flexibility, with a reduced administrative workload and fewer non-clinical responsibilities, enabling you to focus on patient care and achieve a better work-life balance.

R Health PCN is a progressive and collaborative network of six practices serving a population of over 67,000 patients across Runcorn. Successful applicants will receive ongoing mentorship and development within your host practice, alongside additional support from GP Health Connect Ltd (GPHC), your employing organisation. Applicants must meet the current NHS England Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) eligibility requirements. In line with the Network Contract DES, applicants must not have been substantively employed as a General Medical Practitioner in a Core Network Practice within R Health Primary Care Network at any time during the previous 12 months.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality, patient-centred care within the aligned practices.
• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, pharmacists, mental health practitioners, first contact physiotherapists and social prescribers, to ensure integrated patient care.
• Conduct consultations, assessments, and follow-ups with patients.
• Contribute to the management of chronic disease, health promotion, and disease prevention in line with best practices and PCN priorities.
• Participate in clinical audits, training, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care within the PCN.
• Support the development and implementation of new care pathways that align with ARRS objectives.

About us

R Health PCN is a progressive and collaborative Primary Care Network (PCN) dedicated to enhancing patient care and supporting healthcare professionals. Our PCN is committed to promoting health and well-being through patient-centred services and integrated care, with a focus on meeting the needs of our community. The PCN consists of 6 practices and covers a population of just over 67,000 patients.

You will be employed by the GP Federation, GP Health Connect Ltd. The Federation employs ARRS staff on behalf of the PCN and delivers services across Runcorn within the practices and community venues. Our vision is to deliver outstanding, patient-centred care through integrated working and multidisciplinary collaboration. We are committed to supporting both our patients and our workforce, creating an environment where clinicians can develop professionally while delivering high-quality care to their local community.

What We Offer

• Competitive sessional rate of £10,000 per session per annum
• Two sessions per week
• Six weeks' annual leave, plus one week's study leave (pro rata)
• Protected educational sessions and Practice Learning Time (PLT) events included within study leave
• Dedicated mentorship from experienced GP colleagues
• Opportunities for professional development and portfolio career interests
• Supportive multidisciplinary working across six established practices
• Employment by GP Health Connect Ltd, an experienced GP Federation delivering services on behalf of R Health PCN

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will provide general medical services managing 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.

Clinical Responsibilities

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, video consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, ward rounds, 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 advice 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.
• 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

• 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 patient data.
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Contributing to teaching where appropriate.
• Attending practice team meetings.

General Duties

The above responsibilities will be undertaken upholding the following:

• To be available to take over the responsibility of patient care from the Out of Hours service at 0800 or where applicable maintain responsibility till the appropriate time when the Out of Hours service takes over care in the evening.
• To continue to work until all clinical tasks have been completed. To arrange with others to cover when planning to leave before the end of the session.
• At all times to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care and the development of a team spirit. 360-degree feedback is used to assess clinicians and you will be required to participate in this.

Communication and Relationships

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers and recognize people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with all key stakeholders e.g. Practice team members, PCN colleagues, Federation, Community Nursing Teams, Community Mental Health Care Teams, Social Services, statutory and voluntary services.

Safeguarding

All members of staff have a responsibility to ensure the Safeguarding of patients. Ensure knowledge of Safeguarding policies and training is up to date. Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

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, the post-holder will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, member practices, staff, and other healthcare workers. 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 organisation may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. Keep up to date with IG And GDPR legislation.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Participate in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit and the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Follow the standards of Good Medical Practice.
• Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance, quality, and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews.
• 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.
• Participate and contribute to the practice achieving other quality standards such as ISO 9001, Investors in People, RCGP Quality Practice award.

Health & safety

The post-holder will ensure the promotion and management of their own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the organisations Health & Safety policy and the Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Ensuring adherence to individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation of these across all areas.
• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to organisation guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed.
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other managers.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually).

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 people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by GP Health Connect Limited/R Health PCN as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• To undertake any identified training and development related to the post identified in annual review.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
• Ensure own actions contribute to the maintenance of a quality service provision.
• Be responsible for the self-development of skills and competencies through participation in training and development activities and to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post.
• Undertake statutory and mandatory training as well as role specific training deemed appropriate.
• Contribution to the planning and implementation of services.
• Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance.
• Work with the colleagues to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, budgets, and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare.
• Contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by NHS/ DoH/ NHS England, Commissioning Clinical Group, new legislation etc.).

Person Specification

Experience

• Essential
• Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF).
• Desirable
• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience of supporting service change.
• Teaching of GP Reg, F2, Medical students, Nursing students.
• Accredited GP Registrar trainer or F2 Supervisor.
• Evidence of participation in QOF.
• Evidence of participation in Audit.

Skills and Abilities

• Essential
• Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Commitment to education and training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent record keeping skills.
• Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care.
• Confident in using Word and Excel.
• Confident in using Email and Internet.
• Excellent time management.
• Good analytical skills.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Excellent patient manner.
• Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
• Desirable
• Fully conversant with EMIS and/or Blinx clinical IT system.
• Able to conduct Minor Operations, Joint injection, Aspirations.
• Strong leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Essential
• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
• Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983.
• Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
• Currently on the national performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
• DBS Enhanced Disclosure.
• Have had an annual NHS appraisal.
• Desirable
• Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields.
• MRCGP.
• DCH.
• DRCOG.
• CGP Substance Misuse Certificate Level 1 or 2.
• F2 supervisor training/teaching diploma (this is essential for HDS).
• DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion.
• Evidence of CPD activities.
• Minor surgery skills.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.