General Practitioner

We are looking for a GP to complement our friendly team of partners and salaried GPs providing quality care to a growing list of nearly 20,000 patients. We have an opportunity for a GP interested in a 6-session salaried role (or 6-session salaried with view to partnership) in our stable, respected, and forward-thinking training practice.

Based in an excellent location on the Hampshire/Surrey border in Farnborough, we have a fabulous purpose-designed building. We are co-located with community nursing, an integrated care team, community midwifery, a paramedic home visiting team, and the North Hants Urgent Care out of hours facility.

We have developed a model which separates out on the day from 'routine' GP care. We aim to provide good online and face-to-face access for patients with urgent problems but also provide continuity for those with more complex needs.

Main duties of the job

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.

As GPs, we work alongside a highly skilled team of Nurse Prescribers, Paramedic Practitioners, Physician Associates, Practice Nurses, a Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Pharmacist team, and Physiotherapists. A great admin team are employed to support us all.

We have strong links with an active and forward-thinking (Farnborough) Primary Care Network. The locality led home-visiting team of paramedics do >95% of our daily visits, leaving us to concentrate on end-of-life care.

About us

Although the largest practice in Farnborough, we are a friendly team and work hard to maintain our family atmosphere, with a strong ethos of teamwork and mutual support. We have a daily informal meeting and regular in-house educational meetings for continued learning.

General Practice is hard work, but we aim to provide high quality care at the same time as sustaining a healthy work/life balance. We are committed to training and career development for GPs, nurses, and our growing team of allied health care practitioners.

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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.
• 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 health care plans for health.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or 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) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In 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:

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

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of continued professional development.
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
• General understanding of the GMS contract.
• Minimum of two years as a salaried GP.
• Experience of medicines management.
• Experience of ICB initiatives.
• Full GMC registration.
• National Performers List registration.
• Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU).
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently.

Personal Qualities

• Polite and confident.
• Flexible and cooperative.
• Motivated, forward thinker.
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required.
• High levels of integrity and loyalty.
• 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.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Clear, polite telephone manner.
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook.
• Effective time management (planning and organising).
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure.
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes.
• Experience with clinical risk management.

Other Requirements

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours.
• Occupational Health clearance.
• Project lead as required with CQC, ICB and QOF.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.