Salaried GP - Bromleag Care Practice

Provide proactive care to support and improve the health and wellbeing of residents in Care Homes and Extra Care Housing. In line with the agreed practice timetable, the post holder will undertake duties including home visits, telephone and video consultations, managing repeat prescriptions, and handling queries, paperwork, and correspondence promptly.

Deliver accessible, personalised, responsive, and flexible care. Make autonomous clinical decisions for patients, whether self-referred or referred by other healthcare professionals. Screen patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.

Provide high-quality clinical care using expert knowledge and skills to assess, implement, and monitor treatment, ensuring the highest standards are maintained. Keep accurate and up-to-date consultation records and complete clinical letters or summaries.

Apply principles of clinical governance and risk management. Comply with all relevant policies and guidelines, including KPIs, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, and health and safety.

Commit to continuous learning, audit, and evidence-based practice. Contribute to audits, clinical standards, and development of patient records, including summarising notes and coding data.Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Ensure death certificates are completed promptly and in line with Medical Examiner and Registrar requirements.

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.

Organisational Values / Objectives

The goals of Bromley GP Alliance

are to work strategically with all Bromley practices, to help secure the best

services for patients whilst working together, to support the member practices

in the challenges of a changing NHS. Bromley

GP Alliance aims to improve the morale of general practice in Bromley, by

sharing expertise, services and supporting its workforce. The Alliance will make a positive impact on

medical services in Bromley, by working closely with the CCG, local NHS trusts,

local providers and patient groups, to improve the delivery of healthcare to

the local population.

Key Relationships

Care Homes across Borough of Bromley

Patients, family members and carers

Secondary Care and Community colleagues

External Organisations

St

Christophers Hospice

Bromley

Healthcare

Orpington

Primary Care Network (PCN)

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.

Duties and Responsibilities

In accordance with the practice

timetable, as agreed, the post holder will make themselves available to

undertake a variety of duties, including visiting of homes, telephone &

Video consultations, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with

queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.

Provide proactive care, supporting and

improving the health and wellbeing of the population.

Provide accessible care: providing a

personalised, responsive, timely, flexible and accessible service.

Making professional, autonomous

decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self -referred or

referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

Screening patients for disease risk

factors and early signs of illness

Provide clinical care using expert

knowledge and developed clinical skills in assessing, implementing, and

monitoring patients to ensure that the quality of patient care is maintained at

the highest standard.

Recording clear and contemporaneous

consultation notes to agreed standards.

Undertake clinical letters / summary

dictation.

Ensure the principles of clinical

governance and risk management are applied to clinical practice.

Awareness of and compliance with all

relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. KPIs, 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.

Ensuring death certificates are

completed in a timely manner and in line with the Medical Examiner &

Registrars legal requirements.

Signing of death certificates and

cremation documentation. Should the post holder leave the employ of the

practice and a patient dies within 2 weeks of the post holders departure,

should the post holder be the last person who has seen the patient they will be

required to complete the necessary paperwork within a week of such request.

Education and Experience

Full GMC registration

MBBS or Equivalent medical degree

MRCGP

Inclusion on the performers list

Personal/Professional Development

Participate in an annual

individual performance review, including taking responsibility for

maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional

development

Participate in any training

programme implemented by the executive team

Effectively manage own time,

workload and resources.

Assess own performance and

development and take accountability for own actions, either

directly or under supervision

Communication

Demonstrate interpersonal skills

when dealing with all levels of staff across the BGPA using persuasion, tact

and reassurance where necessary.

Handle confidential patient

material in a sensitive and discrete fashion in compliance with Bromley GP Alliance

policy and procedure.

To be able to influence, motivate

and involve individuals and teams to reach necessary performance target

expectations.

Liaise with other departments and

members of the Bromley GP Alliance and other organisations to ensure the smooth

running of the office and to assisting the functioning of the team.

The post holder is required to

follow Bromley GP Alliance policies and procedures which are regularly updated

Including

Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

BGPA is a federation of all 43 Bromley practices working collaboratively to enhance the health and wellbeing of Bromley residents, covering over 350,000 patients, 100% of the Bromley population.

BGPAs goals are to work strategically with Bromley practices to help secure the best services for patients whilst working together to support member practices in the challenges of a changing NHS.

BGPA aims to improve the morale of general practice in Bromley by sharing expertise, services and supporting its workforce.

BGPA will make a positive impact on medical services in Bromley by working closely with One Bromley Partners including NHS SEL ICB, local NHS trusts, local providers and patient groups, to improve the delivery of healthcare to the local population.

Additional Criteria

Experience

Skills

Qualifications