Salaried General Practitioner in Worcester

St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed salaried GP to join our practice team to help shape our future growth. We have strong connections to our PCN, with a great multi-generational patient population. The Practice List size is 13,800.

An innovative and supportive team, comprising of two partners, six GPs, three trainee ACPs, two practice pharmacists, three nurses, three HCAs, a practice manager, an operations manager, reception managers, receptionists, administrators and secretaries. The Practice is consistently benchmarked as high performing in ICB and PCN contracts across a range of indicators, including referrals and prescribing.

Bi-weekly MDT with social and community care. Training practice.

Main duties of the job

The Role: We are offering 6 sessions working on Monday, Thursday & Friday. Interests and personal development strongly encouraged. Support for being/becoming a trainer for interested candidates. Mentorship for portfolio roles, including future leadership roles in the wider community/health care.

The Team: Young, dynamic clinical team who work extremely well together. Excellent pharmacy team (two clinical pharmacists and two PMCs) who deal with all medical related queries and offer a duty pharmacist daily alongside pharmacist support provided by Worcester City PCN. Innovative frailty and care home services with GP leadership. Strong links with social prescribing, including mental health and well-being support. Open door/supportive team. There’s always someone to ask or just to share a problem or some humour. Daily paid coffee break and chat. Fully engaged with PCN. Opportunities for more collaborative working and new primary care roles. Emis system, alongside Docman, X-on/Surgery Connect & Accurx.

About us

The Benefits: Excellent working environment. In-house CPD in addition to study leave. Aiming for longer appointments for complex patients to improve care and reduce time pressure on clinicians. Flexibility for work/life balance, designing work around other commitments. Sociable team with coffee breaks blocked out in the morning.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities: The post-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with the standards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Any concerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon as practicable. In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescription requests, and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, (including electronic correspondence), dealing with patient test results and medical reports, referral letters, paperwork and other correspondence in a timely fashion. Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers. Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health. Provide counselling and health education. Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate. Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templates as appropriate. Collect and use data for audit purposes. Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible). Prescribe in accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or national guidelines 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 Practice: Awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but not limited to, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, QOF, CQC. Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice. Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation. Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records. Contribute to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data. Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate e.g. CPR training. This includes clinical and non-clinical training and events. Participate in practice meetings when requested. Provide information when reasonably requested by the practice manager to ensure that all personnel and other records are accurate e.g. hepatitis status. Undertake lead responsibility for one or more clinical QOF domains as agreed with the partners/practice manager. To meet all deadlines for audits and written returns so that the practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (QOF, LES, DES etc.).

Person Specification

Qualifications: GMC Registered GP, On Performers List, DBS Clearance, Member of approved medical defence organisation.

Experience: Sound knowledge of QOF requirements, NICE guidelines etc. and commitment to deliver quality service to patients. Confident in making decisions, managing own workload and delegating appropriately. Good record keeping and communication skills. Special interest in a specific area of primary care.

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.