Gp, Doctor​/Physician

Working Pattern: 6 sessions per week, days to be negotiated.

Salary:
To be negotiated, indemnity fees paid, standard BMA contract

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, reliable and flexible GP to join a friendly, forward thinking and innovative GP Practice.

The post-holder will work in the practice clinical team delivering high-quality healthcare to registered patients within our large training practice (approx. 20,000 patients). The post-holder will manage a case load, lead on agreed clinical targets and service developments, and provide support to Partners , GPs, nurses, registrars and other clinicians within the practice.

The post-holder will manage a case load, lead on agreed clinical targets and service developments, and provide support to GPs, nurses and other clinicians within the practice.

To thrive in this role, you will enjoy the challenges that require you to use your exceptional organisational and prioritising skills, combined with top level attention to detail. Problem solving skills on a day to day basis on issues relating to your work is essential, you will also enjoy working closely as a team to achieve shared objectives and ensure daily priorities are delivered.

Patients expect a high standard of service and outstanding customer service, so working as a team to meet and manage these expectations is important. Knowledge of Systm One is essential but full training will be given.

Windsor House Group Practice is a forward thinking and high achieving, training practice located in the Leeds area (Morley, Churwell and Drighlington) within easy access off the M62. The Practice is well established and respected locally. We pride ourselves on providing high quality care and innovation in development of local services through our Primary Care Network (PCN).

The practice operates from three well-equipped premises. We provide a number of enhanced clinics, including joint injections, contraceptive implants, coils, ECGs, 24hour BPs and spirometry.

Our practice team consists of six partners, five salaried GPs, five Practice Nurses, three HCAs and an efficient reception and administration team. We are a GP Training Practice and have currently ten GP registrars.

Key Information

List size of 20,000 patients

The Practice uses Systm One, Accu Rx and Ardens

Job summary:

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:

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 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

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

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

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.

Weekly oncall duties.

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 development of computer-based patient records

Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

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…