Part Time Salaried GP

Marisco Medical Practice is located in a small seaside town with a registered patient population of 14,500. Our weighted patient count is 21,500. Our surgeries are purpose-built clinical buildings with well-equipped consulting and treatment rooms.

Our Practice ethos is to provide high-quality medical care in a professional, yet friendly, patient-centred and compassionate manner to the people of Mablethorpe and the surrounding area.

We are looking for a part-time salaried GP to join our team, who is enthusiastic and motivated in providing high-quality clinical services to a varied demographic of patients. This post is based on a session basis, in accordance with a standard BMA contract.

Main duties of the job In 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, visiting patients, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, paperwork, and participate in a duty doctor rota.

The candidate will make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems. Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary 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.

About us Marisco Medical Practice is a busy surgery. The clinical team is led by the senior GP and Clinical Lead. We have a large team of staff and each team is led by a head of department.

We aim to provide primary care services that are responsive to the changing health needs of the community as informed by direct and indirect involvement with patient groups, individuals, other caregiving organisations, and stakeholders.

At Marisco Medical Practice, we believe there is room for all to grow and excel, we are highly involved in many teaching programmes across several universities. We have 2 GP tutors and 2 Nurse assessor/mentors within our surgery, which allows us to support a wide range of students.

The significant work ethic from all members of staff is also recompensed by the benefits of a role working at Marisco. All staff members support one another and work well in conjunction with each other, in order to ensure a harmonious and effective working environment for all.

Job responsibilities Job Title: Salaried General Practitioner.

Reports to: The Partners (Clinically) - The Practice Manager (Administratively).

Hours: Hours Worked on a session's basis: i.e. 8 or 6 sessions a week.

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.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In 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, 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 healthcare 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.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• 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 (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• 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.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, 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.
• In the performance of the duties 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.
• 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.

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):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/contractual/professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage, and transport arrangements.
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff, and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances).
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others.
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure.
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice.
• Active observation of current working 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.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient processes.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes.
• Monitoring practice facilities and 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.
• Safe management of sharps use, storage, and disposal.
• Maintenance of their own clean working environment.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial/corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognized.
• Keeping their own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility for the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually).
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity:
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