Salaried GP Barnsley

We are looking to recruit a motivated and committed Salaried GP to join our practice team. The vacancy is for 6 sessions per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

GMS Practice with list size of 7500, CQC overall rating Good, Training practice, High QOF achievers, Emis Clinical System, Two site with purpose built modern premises and free parking.

We have 3 partners, 3 salaried GPs, 2 regular locums and a full complement of Nursing and Administration staff. We have an excellent support team, including Clinical Pharmacists, Health and Wellbeing Coach and Care Coordinator. We have good links with our local neighbourhood nursing team which include District Nurses and Community Matron. We are members of Barnsley Healthcare Federation and Barnsley Primary Care Network.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct face-to-face and telephone consultations.
• Assess, diagnose and treat a wide range of medical conditions.
• Manage both acute illnesses and long-term conditions.
• Prescribe medications and review treatment plans.
• Arrange, interpret and act on investigations and test results.
• Refer patients to secondary care, community services and specialist clinics when appropriate.
• Provide health promotion and disease prevention advice.
• Undertake home visits where required by the practice.
• Manage urgent and same-day appointments.

Administrative Duties

• Complete accurate clinical records and consultation notes.
• Review laboratory results, correspondence and hospital letters.
• Process prescription requests and medication reviews.
• Complete medical reports, insurance forms and other documentation.
• Follow up safeguarding concerns and significant clinical issues.

Safeguarding and Quality Responsibilities

• Identify and act on safeguarding concerns involving children and vulnerable adults.
• Follow NHS and GMC professional standards.
• Participate in clinical governance, audits and quality improvement activities.
• Report and learn from significant events and patient safety incidents.

Professional Responsibilities

• Maintain GMC registration and licence to practise.
• Participate in annual appraisal and revalidation.
• Undertake Continuing Professional Development.
• Adhere to practice policies, NHS guidance and information governance requirements.

We are a friendly, busy, patient-focused GP practice providing high-quality primary care services to our local community. As the first point of contact for healthcare, we deliver a wide range of medical services, including preventative care, management of long-term conditions, health promotion. We aim to deliver compassionate, accessible, and personalised care, supporting the health and wellbeing of patients of all ages.

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.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, taking part in the on call rota, 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.
• 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.

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

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 learning environment e.g. debriefs for GP registrars/PAs.
• Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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.