General Practitioner - Havering Health Crest PCN

Havering Liberty PCN are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a General Practitioner, to work alongside our practices and PCN staff. Our PCN staff currently includes Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Dieticians, Social Prescribers, Physiotherapists, Care Coordinators, Nursing Associates and Pharmacy Technicians.

The post-holder will provide comprehensive primary care services in accordance with the practice rota. This includes conducting face-to-face and telephone consultations, managing acute and chronic presentations, and undertaking home or nursing home visits as required. As an autonomous clinician, you will be responsible for assessing patients with undifferentiated conditions, screening for disease risk factors, and developing collaborative care plans in line with practice protocols.

Prescription Management: Authorising repeat and acute prescriptions via computer-generated systems, adhering to the practice formulary and generic prescribing guidelines.

Documentation & Results: Maintaining clear, contemporaneous medical records and processing correspondence, investigations, and pathology results in a timely manner.

Professional Referrals: Identifying when to refer patients to secondary care or allied health professionals to ensure continuity of care.

Audit & Quality: Contributing to data collection for clinical audits and providing patient-centred health education and counselling.

Havering Crest PCNis a collaboration of GP practices working together to provide integrated, high-quality healthcare to our local population. Established in 2019 as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, we aim to bridge the gap between traditional GP services and community-based care, ensuring our patients have access to the right support at the right time.

By sharing resources and expertise, our member practices are able to offer a wider range of specialist services and personalised care that wouldnt be possible for a single surgery to provide alone.

Our Mission & Values

Our vision is a community where every resident enjoys optimal health and wellbeing, empowered by inclusive and personalised care.

Compassion:

Approaching every patient with empathy and understanding.

Collaboration:

Working as a cohesive team to offer comprehensive solutions.

Excellence:

Committing to the highest quality of healthcare through continuous improvement.

Inclusion:

Ensuring our services are accessible and welcoming to all.

Havering Health GP Federation is a working collaboration of 38 General Practices with a combined patient population of over 274,901 patients, Havering Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are groups of GP practices that have come together to work more closely together to improve the quality of care for patients in Havering. There are five PCNs in Havering:
Crest PCN, North PCN, South PCN, Liberty PCN and Marshalls PCN, providing development and progression opportunities for its workforce.

Due to the changes in the ARRS Scheme to introduce General Practitioners we are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a newly qualified and experienced General Practitioner to work alongside our practices and PCN staff. Our PCN staff currently includes Clinical Pharmacists, Physicians Associates, Social Prescribers, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Care Coordinators, Nurse Associates and Pharmacist Technicians.

To perform as an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending within a primary care setting. Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence. To be involved in the provision of education and training to GP Registrars and other staff.

To be professionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct ensuring the safety of patients and quality of their care is primary.

Primary Responsibilities:

Clinical Practice:

In accordance with the practice rota, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including GP Face to Face consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting may include nursing home as well as patients home, checking and signing/authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, correspondence and investigation results 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

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

Providing counselling and health education

Referring to other care…