General Practitioner

Main duties of the job

We are a forward thinking, well established 6 partner practice in a market town in rural North Warwickshire, within easy reach of Birmingham, Leicester and Coventry.

We are looking for a like-minded person to join us in continuing to provide high quality, patient centred care.

We offer a well managed work-load and a healthy work life balance with the support of our caring and dedicated clinical and admin team.

About us;

• GMS, CQC rated good, high QOF achiever
• List size 16,500
• Training practice
• Support to continue existing special interests or develop new interests
• Multi skilled and experienced clinical team including 3 ACPs, 4 practice nurses, 3 HCAs
• Active member of a thriving PCN and supportive Federation, with a range of ARRS roles
• Enhanced access provided by third party
• Low volume of home visits
• Dispensing practice
• Proactive IT users including Emis, accu
  
  Rx, Rapid Health and Primary Care IT

Key responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex need.

• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• Maintain effective communication within the practice environment and with external stakeholders.
• Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues.
• Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance (eg PALS) and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the professional body. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
• Use a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis) to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events.
• Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.
• Approve the performance of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.
• Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

• Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role mode.
• Support staff development in order to maximise potential.
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external…