Newly Qualified ARRs Salaried GP (Acute Care Team)

Newly Qualified ARRs Salaried GP (Acute Care Team)

A Newly Qualified ARRs GP, you will be allocated to our Acute Care Team working alongside Allied Healthcare Professionals to help deliver acute, on the day demand, as well as harness the benefits of local team working.

Our team centred approach includes team huddles, regular clinical meetings, quarterly protected learning time meetings as well as a thriving and busy social calendar with an annual SHP Shining Stars Awards ceremony.

We recognise the transition from working as a trainee into an independent practitioner and will support you with a dedicated SHP Partner mentor and a named clinical supervisor in addition to the wider support package being offered by BSol ICB.

Main duties of the job

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 the Acute Care Team within SHP PCN.

Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.

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 the quality of their care is the focus.

About us

Solihull Healthcare Partnership (SHP) was formed in 2019 following the merger of 4 strong and successful local GP Partnerships covering the areas of Shirley and Solihull. Our mission is to be the provider of choice in delivering holistic care to our neighbourhood and in doing so to provide person-centred care at the heart of our community. We work closely with our key stakeholders and enjoy good relationships with our BSol ICS system partners to achieve these aims.

Our Values are:

• Honest - We practice and encourage open and honest communication, acting with integrity in all that we do.
• Excellence - We strive to achieve the highest standards in the care we deliver and enable our team to create an environment that encourages excellence.
• Accountable - We take personal and collective responsibility for our actions and the way we deliver care.
• Respectful - We engage with our team, our patients and our community with respect, providing kind and compassionate person-centred care.
• Transformational - We are committed to continually improving our standards, working with the community, being responsive and adapting to the changing needs of the neighbourhood.

SHP is a single GMS practice and Primary Care Network with a growing list size of 57,000 patients and over 200 staff members. All 7 sites are in proximity with our patient demographics varying from affluent working professionals in Solihull to the middle and lower socioeconomic groups based in Shirley with an elderly population.

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Triage patients presenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person.

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.

In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education.

Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards. Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.

Check, manage & process patient test results.

Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required.

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines.

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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis.

The post-holder will undertake a fair share of home visiting sessions per week as allocated.

Person Specification Other Requirements

• DBS
• Care Home Experience
• GP trainer
• Experience in understanding principles of operating an organisation/business
• Experience in understanding frameworks of quality, performance workforce, finance, operations within primary care
• Have/had leadership roles within commissioning/ICBs
• PCN Experience
• Experience and an understanding of new models of delivering primary care

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear Polite Telephone Manner
• Flexible and Cooperative
• Motivated Forward thinker
• High level of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic to distressing situations
• Ability to Work as a team player and autonomously
• Effective time management
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience to follow clinical process and procedures
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Experience with audit and quality improvement programmes

Personal Qualities

• Polite and Confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Ability to work under pressure
• Problem solver with the ability to process and interpret information
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Effectively able to understand the needs of the patient, staff and colleagues

Experience

• Experience to work in a primary care environment
• Experience of Continued Professional Development
• Experience of QOF and clinical Audit
• General Understanding of the GMS contract
• Experience of ICB initiatives
• Experience of medicines management

Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• GP CCT (Certificate of Completed Training) from October 2022 onwards
• Full GMC Registration
• National Performers List Registration
• Eligibility to Practice in the UK Independently
• Not previously been substantively employed at a GP Practice

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.