Salaried Gp in Grantham

St Peters Hill Surgery stands by its organisational vision and values to provide the best possible care and support to our patient population. As a partnership, we are not afraid to innovate and to be the first to try out new ways of working. We are bold, adventurous, ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. As a stand-alone practice, we serve the healthcare needs of 16,500 patients across the Grantham area and, as part of our wider Grantham and Rural PCN, we support a total of around 75,000 patients through collaboration, effective data sharing and joint working arrangements. All this is supported by our excellent clinical directors, the PCNs management team and our Federation managers at K2. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a local, caring and traditional GP practice with its sights firmly set on sustainability, advancement and a team approach to patient services.

Our Values

• Caring and Respectful: Simply put, we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
• Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of health and care service provision we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• The salaried GPs are responsible for delivering the full range of primary care services as part of the practice ensuring the highest standards of care for the differing needs of our patient population.
• The salaried GPs work closely with the practices multi-disciplinary team of other GPs, nurses, ARRS roles and non-clinical staff to provide a high quality and accessible service to patients.
• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, clinical triage (AskMyGP) and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.
• 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.
• Communicating regularly and effectively with members of the practice team including the Practice Manager and the clinical team. This includes attendance at daily coffee meetings on a regular basis.

About us

St Peters Hill Surgery in Grantham has a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and patient focused GP to join our friendly, hardworking team. If you share our values of Caring, Teamwork, Respect and Quality and are a great Communicator, we would love to hear from you.

Here is what you can expect working at St Peters Hill Surgery:

• Friendly team of 3 GP partners and 2 other salaried GPs; meaning support is always available.
• Team of 3 nurses and 3 HCAs supporting and delivering chronic disease and other nursing services.
• An ANP and Paramedic dealing with minor illnesses and acute on the day triage.
• Long established training practice providing opportunities for career development.
• Established PCN pharmacy team supporting medication reviews, clinical correspondence and chronic disease.
• Multi-disciplinary PCN team including social prescribing link workers, care home co-ordinator, PCCs, OTs, FCPs and mental health practitioner.
• GP Partner-led clinical governance and leadership in place to support entire practice team.
• Free onsite secure parking.
• Opportunities to socialise outside of work hours with the practice team at our regular organised team events.
• General holiday entitlement and access to NHS Pension scheme.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The salaried GP will be responsible for delivering the full range of primary care services as part of the practice ensuring the highest standards of care for the differing needs of our patient population. The salaried GP will work closely with the practices multi-disciplinary team of other GPs, nurses, ARRS roles and non-clinical staff to provide a high quality and accessible service to 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, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.
• 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.
• 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 and recording data for audit purposes and involvement in the clinical audit programme.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible. EPS is implemented at the Practice).
• 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.
• Complete care plans required for local enhanced services.
• Participate in Enhanced Services, QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework), IIF (Investment and Impact Fund) and other PCN-led programmes of work as required within the practice.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

• Prepare for and complete the annual external appraisal process.
• Prepare for and complete the revalidation process.
• Undertake training that meets personal, mandatory and practice learning needs including recording of learning, reflection, complaints, information governance etc.
• Participate in and contribute to learning activities such as significant event reviews, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations.
• Contribute to delivering teaching for doctors in training in the practice and other health professionals in training.

Other responsibilities with the Practice:

• 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 accurate clinical coding of patient data.
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification

• Eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS.
• Able to practice with current GMS number (history/background will be checked prior to offer of post).
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Experience as a GP educator/mentor.
• Experience of appraisal in practice or other setting.
• Additional clinical skills beyond general practice.
• Experience of SystmOne and askmyGP.

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.

£11,000 a session. Pay rate is dependent upon experience.