Salaried General Practitioner

Our Contract for salaried doctors includes a

defined workload with a fixed number of patient contacts, no extended hours and

minimal paperwork.

We are keen to hear from doctors who want to be

part of a happy, positive, family friendly team.

The practice welcomes both

newly qualified GPs and those looking to further their career in a

professional, supportive environment.

JOB TITLE: SALARIED

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE SENIOR

PARTNER (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE & BUSINESS MANAGER (Administratively)

HOURS: TBC

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

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

professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,

whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within

the organisation

the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed

problems

patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with

current practice disease management protocols

counselling and health education

or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other

care providers as appropriate

clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

data for audit purposes

and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding

hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)

whenever this is clinically appropriate

general, the post-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

of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.

prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best

practice

to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

to the development of computer-based patient records

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

training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where

appropriate.

Confidentiality

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

outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to

confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice

staff and other healthcare workers.

They may also have access to information relating to the practice

as a business organisation. All such information from any source is

to be regarded as strictly confidential

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.

Health & safety

The post-holder will

implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and

others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice

health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the

practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include

(but will not be limited to)

the workplace according to practice guidelines

infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /

professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling,

handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport

arrangements

Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others,

advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and

patients.

infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary

circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

others

accidental exposure

infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and

implementation of those protocols across the practice

practices across the practice in relation to infection control,

cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed

and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as

appropriate to the responsible person

activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those

risks across clinical and patient process

update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of

others across the full range of infection control and patient processes

equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is

made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are

sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of

facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

and disposal

procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe

way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where

needed or escalation to responsible management

correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately

when recognised

general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and

hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and

assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of

cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with

responsible managers

training (minimum twice annually)

including handling, segregation, and container use

and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality,

diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting

them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,

and current legislation

the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental

and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional

Development

In addition to maintaining continued

education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to

ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the

post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice

as part of this employment, with such training to include:

in an annual individual performance review, including taking

responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional

development

responsibility for own development, learning and performance and

demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar

work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain

Quality within the practice, and will

other team members to issues of quality and risk

own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly

or under supervision

to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities

and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams

performance

effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective

communication within the team and will strive to:

members

and carers

methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the

Implementation of services

The post-holder will

practice policies, standards and guidance

with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines

will affect own work

in audit where appropriate.

General

The above duties are neither exclusive nor

exhaustive and the post holder may be required to take on other duties

appropriate to the role.

The Senior Partner

reserves the right to amend this job description in consultation with the post

holder.

The practice profile is: Registered patients 7400. GP Partner, Salaried GPs, FCP, Nurse Team, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Tech , GP Assistant .

Training Practice

Park Lane Practice TIER 2 registered practice

CQC- Good Feb 2023

QOF- High Achievement

SystmOne Clinical system

For more information, or to arrange

an informal visit to the practice, please contact Dr Humaira Ramzan at parklane.manager@nhs.net

Informal enquiries and practice

visits welcome.

Experience