Gp, Healthcare

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Salaried GP to joinour CQC twice rated Outstanding practice in the beautiful Heart of England.

We can offerthe right candidate:

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• Full time or part time working
• A positive and supportive working environment
• Tier 2 Visa Sponsorship offered for eligible candidate
• 6 weeks annual leave + 1weeks study leave
• High QOF achieving
• Personalised patientlists
• Established training practice with GP registrars, medical students and nursing students
• Additional indemnity cover

Our vacancyhas been created by retirement and we are willing to wait for the right candidate if necessary.

We are a large forward thinking, innovative practice with approximately 22,500 patients, 10 Partners, 5 Salaried GPs & 1 Retained GP. We are also a training practice with 4 GP trainers, 3 GP clinical supervisors and 6 medical student supervisors.

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.

REPORTS TO:

THE PRACTICE MANAGER

Based over 2 local sites, the GPs are supported by an experienced team of Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, Mental Health Practitioners, First Contact Physiotherapist, Treatment Room Nurses, Nursing Associates, HCAs and a large administration team. We also have a multi-disciplinary team including Care Co-ordinators, a Social Prescribing Link Worker and Safeguarding Co-Ordinators. We are a long established training practice with an ethos for education.

Our vision is to provide a high quality, compassionate, confidential and patient-centered service which is appropriate, accessible, efficient and without prejudice. We do this by delivering care based on best clinical evidence; involving patients in healthcare decisions; having a team based approach; committing to continuing education and self-evaluation; supporting the aspirations of each team member and being sensitive to the local and wide health community.

Our aim is to have a population of satisfied and healthier patients, a fulfilled and developing team and a thriving Practice.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients athome, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries,paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers withinthe organisation
• Assessing thehealth care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems
• Screeningpatients 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
• Providingcounselling and health education
• Admitting ordischarging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clearand 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 thepost-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

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 tolife-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing toevaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing tothe summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• The post-holder will undertake 1 duty session per week and will participate in our Enhanced Access rota (max. 1 session per week).
• Attendingtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality (Information Governance):

• In the course ofseeking 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 theright to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, thepost-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have accessto information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
  
  All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictlyconfidential
• Informationrelating to patients,…