Newly Qualified General Practitioner

Newly Qualified Salaried General Practitioner

Thepost holder will be employed by Greenwich Health the GP Federation in Greenwich. Greenwich has 7 primary care networks (PCNS) with list sizes ofbetween 30-80,000 patients. The Post holder will work for Riverview Health PCN,a grouping of 5 practices.

Dueto the changes in the ARRS Scheme to introduce General Practitioners, we are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a newly qualified General Practitioner (you must be within 2years of certificate of completion of training at the start of employment) towork alongside our practices and PCN staff.

The GP will perform as an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with other healthcare professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patientsattending within a primary care setting. Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence. To be professionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct ensuring thesafety of patients and quality of their care is primary.

The role may also involve the following:

• To be involved in the provision of education and training to GP Registrars and other staff.
• To work in PCN wide schemes/services including some extended hours and some potential hub working.

The post holder will need to becapable of independent travel across the Greenwich Borough and work flexibly tomeet the needs of the Business.

• The post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety ofduties including surgery and online consultations, telephone consultations and queries,visiting patients at home, checking and signing/authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors andearly 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
• Admittingor 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
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate
• Thepost-holder will be required to visit patients during surgery time in anemergency if clinically indicated.
• Thepost-holder will undertake a fair % of On Call sessions per week as allocatedon the practice rota and participate in the extended hours enhanced service.
• Thepost-holder will undertake fair share of home visiting sessions per week asallocated.

Greenwich Health is committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and delivering services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

Confidentiality

Inthe course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.

They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respecttheir privacy and act appropriately

Inthe performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holdermay 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 strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Create opportunities to address patients care needs in the most expedient way, taking into account that continuity of careand access to services are often in direct conflict.

Encouragepatients to be aware of the service pressures within primary care and to manage theirexpections of what we can realistically deliver in a manner that is fair and proportionate for all carepriorities.

Makeimproved use of the telephone and other technologies. Encourage patients torely on face to face consultation only where there is a clinical need to do so.

Communicate and reassure patients of the need to offer alternative care options where appropriate and safe to do so.

Toimmediately highlight any concerns you may have in respect of safety or qualityof patient care to the PCN Clinical Director/Practice Partners/PCNManager.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined inthe Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Usingpersonal…