Salaried GP in Ellesmere Port

About the role

Whitby Health Partnership has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Salaried GP to join our dynamic, progressive, and supportive practice, working 5 sessions per week. The chosen candidates will assist in managing a busy and interesting clinical caseload for our patient population.

Main duties

Our goal is to provide excellent clinical care to our community. The main responsibility of the GP will be to manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for our entire patient population. We offer structured clinics, including 15‑minute appointments which are a mixture of telephone and face‑to‑face consultations. You will be supported by a knowledgeable admin team, and a highly skilled nursing team. We also have physiotherapy practitioners, first‑contact physiotherapists, mental health practitioners, social prescribers, wellbeing coordinators, and clinical pharmacists working in or associated with the practice.

About us

Whitby Health Partnership, in Ellesmere Port, is a supportive environment in which you can develop your special interests. We have around 16,000 patients and use EMIS web. We are part of the One Ellesmere Port PCN and work collaboratively with the other Ellesmere Port practices. You will enjoy working with a diverse and skilled team, who are open to new ideas. The team includes 13 GPs, ANPs, practice nurses, GP assistants, a prescribing pharmacist, physios, social prescribing link workers and a mental health OT. The practice is dedicated to providing the best possible care for patients, whilst fostering a vibrant and energetic working atmosphere.

Benefits

• Competitive package with indemnity costs reimbursed
• Supported by an experienced and highly skilled clinical team including 13 GPs, Nursing team consisting of 4 ANPs, 2 Practice Nurses, HCAs, GPA's along with Clinical Pharmacists and more.
• Experienced management and administrative team
• Structured clinics with 15‑minute appointments and protected administrative time
• Full and supportive induction
• Monthly educational sessions
• In‑house minor surgery and contraception clinics
• Supportive & proactive team
• Whole practice team building/social events

Job responsibilities

The Salaried GP will work as part of the multidisciplinary primary care team to deliver safe, effective, and patient‑centred care to the registered practice population.

Clinical responsibilities

• Provide high‑quality medical care to patients registered with the practice.
• Deliver services in accordance with the requirements of the GMS/PMS Contract, Enhanced Services and all relevant national and local standards.
• Undertake a range of clinical duties including face‑to‑face consultations, telephone consultations, home visits, management of clinical correspondence, review of test results, and prescription authorisation.
• Participate in the practice duty doctor/on‑call rota.
• Assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients presenting with a wide range of health conditions.
• Make professional and autonomous clinical decisions in relation to patient care.
• Refer patients appropriately in accordance with local and national referral pathways.
• Provide health promotion, preventative healthcare advice and support to patients.
• Effectively manage patients with long‑term conditions and complex healthcare needs.
• Prescribe safely, cost‑effectively and in accordance with local and national prescribing guidance.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and appropriately coded clinical records in line with practice policies and professional standards.
• Ensure high standards of clinical governance and patient safety are maintained at all times.
• Undertake all duties in accordance with GMC guidance and Good Medical Practice standards.

Quality, performance and service development

• Contribute to the achievement of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) and other contractual targets.
• Accept delegated responsibility for specific clinical or quality improvement areas as agreed.
• Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement activities and service evaluation programmes.
• Support the Partners and Management Team in achieving the strategic objectives of the practice.
• Identify opportunities to improve patient services, enhance efficiency and support practice sustainability.
• Review and adhere to all practice policies, protocols and procedures.

Teaching, training and professional development

• Participate fully in the annual appraisal and revalidation processes.
• Maintain continuing professional development and undertake mandatory training as required.
• Support the education and training of medical students, GP trainees and other healthcare professionals.
• Attend and actively contribute to practice meetings, educational events and multidisciplinary team discussions.

Additional responsibilities

• Provide clinical support and advice to reception, administration, secretarial and nursing teams when required.
• Maintain awareness of and compliance with all relevant legislation, professional guidance and practice policies, including confidentiality, data protection, information governance and health and safety requirements.
• Participate in practice audits and quality assurance activities as requested.
• Support business continuity by providing reasonable flexibility to working patterns, including occasional cover for annual leave or sickness absence where operationally required.

This job description is intended as a guide to the principal duties and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The role may be amended from time to time to meet the changing needs of the Practice following consultation with the post holder.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Can demonstrate a broad base of competencies and skills.
• Excellent knowledge of IT systems including Microsoft.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of the pressures faced by GPs and healthcare teams.
• Knowledge of own professional accountability and autonomous practice.
• Auditing and research.
• Knowledge of the implementation of Care Quality Commission standards.

Experience

• A good knowledge of and interest in general practice and primary care.
• Proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care case load.
• Experience of working within Primary Care.
• Ability to draft cogent, error‑free letters and reports in a timely manner.
• Experience of conducting audits including the examination of clinical notes, interpreting data and feeding back results.
• Experience working with EMIS.
• Proven ability to offer support within a clinical team and share learning points in Practice meetings.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, able to influence and persuade others articulating a balanced view and able to constructively question information.
• Able to take a consultative approach to their work, appropriately involving relevant people.
• A strong team spirit and feel comfortable in a strongly multidisciplinary team environment.
• Ability to co‑ordinate and prioritise workloads, able to multi‑task as well as be self‑disciplined and highly motivated.
• Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• High degree of personal credibility, emotional intelligence, patience, and flexibility.
• Ability to cope with unpredictable situations.

Qualifications

• A vocationally trained and accredited GP, preferably with MRCGP.
• Current and full UK driving licence.
• Current registration with the GMC and appropriate representation with a recognised medical defence organisation.

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.