Newly Qualified Salaried GP (Beeston PCN ARRS)

Newly Qualified Salaried GP (Beeston PCN ARRS) Primary Care Networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to integrate with the wider health and care system more easily.

Following the release of ARRS GP funding, we are looking for newly qualified GPs (within 2 years) to join Beeston Primary Care Network on a fixed term salaried contract until 31 March 2026. We will consider applications for between 2 and 8 sessions with a start date as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job You may be required to work across 2-4 practices in Beeston, supporting our practices through the winter period. We are a highly supportive PCN, and the practices all work closely within the PCN, understanding the importance of a good work/life balance with an open-door ethos.

To undertake duties governed by the PMS & GMS contract and Objectives of Direct and Local Enhanced Services including:

1. Face to face and telephone consultations.
2. Patient Home visits and Nursing Home visits.
3. Checking and signing repeat prescriptions.
4. Administration - dealing with queries, patient test results, referral letters NHS/private, tasks, emails and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.
5. Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate.
6. Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well as wider guidance such as that from NICE.

About us Beeston PCN is a large PCN with a patient list size of circa 47,000 patients. We have a significant workforce in place which brings wonderful opportunities for in-house multi-disciplinary team working. We have a well-developed multidisciplinary team including a Pharmacy Team, Occupational Therapists, Social Prescribers, a range of nursing/HCA staff, and more which means that the majority of any patient's needs can now be provided on their own doorstep. Beeston PCN also works collaboratively with Middleton and Hunslet PCN, forming BMH (Beeston, Middleton & Hunslet PCNs), ensuring continuity of care. To note, this role is to work solely with the practices in Beeston PCN.

Job responsibilities Clinical

1. Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.
2. Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care within the surgery, patients' own home or other environments where patient care is carried out.
3. Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly referring patients to other services/agencies in a timely manner, utilising Practice, PCN and local guidelines.
4. To recognise the need for and be able to perform and interpret investigatory procedures, including laboratory and radiology.
5. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
6. Ensure appropriate follow up of patients.
7. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.
8. Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans.
9. Recognise and work within your own competence and in accordance with professional codes of conduct, maintaining accurate and contemporaneous health records.
10. Independently prescribe for patients within your scope of practice, prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
11. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
12. Review medications following the appropriate policies, NICE/local clinical guidelines and local care pathways.
13. Maintain an awareness of developments in clinical practice.
14. Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines e.g., prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety and QOF standards.
15. Be aware of your duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to our policies and procedures on Safeguarding Children and Adults.

Confidentiality

You will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their Carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. 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.

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.

Quality - the postholder will

1. Contribute to the achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as those detailed by their regulatory body and the CQC.
2. Monitor the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit, mentor feedback, case review and peer review. Implement improvements where necessary.
3. Understanding of the audit process and of clinical risk management.
4. Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance, quality and risk. Participate in Significant Event and/or near miss analysis reviews.
5. Contribute 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.
6. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
7. Work in partnership with other clinical teams, collaborating on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
8. To accept delegated responsibility for a specific area (or areas) of QOF.

Communication

1. Excellent communication skills (written and oral), when dealing with patients and other team members. The ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
2. Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients and carers are fully informed and consent to treatment.
3. Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
4. Use developed communication, negotiation and conflict management skills recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background etc.

Managing Risk

1. Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. This includes the escalation of clinical concerns or appropriate referrals where the management of a clinical situation requires it, or it falls outside of clinical competence.
2. Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards, and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
3. Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines and in accordance with the practice policy.

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Person Specification Qualifications

• Newly qualified GP (within two years and not having had a substantive post) with full GMC registration and license to practice.
• Experience of working in a GP Training Practice using SystmOne.
• Ability to effectively triage, assess and diagnose.
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly.
• Assessing and managing acute deteriorations/exacerbations of Long-Term Conditions.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice.
• Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely.
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance.
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs.
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
• Experience in Triage.
• Knowledge of Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena.

Personal qualities, attributes and abilities

• Polite and confident, flexible and cooperative.
• Motivated, forward thinker with ability to use own judgement and common sense.
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required.
• High levels of integrity.
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations.
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations.
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort.
• Observance of strict confidentiality.

Experience

• Experience of working in urgent care and/or a primary care environment.
• Experience of dealing with a range of clinical conditions.
• Experience of providing home visits.
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