Salaried GP

Are you looking to join a practice as a salaried GP?

Crickhowell Group Practice is a 5 partner practice serving approximately 9000 patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly salaried GP to help expand our ambitious team. We would support all levels of experience, including those with special interests, as we are keen to expand the services we provide. The role would be for 4 to 6 sessions per week (ideally to include Monday and Friday). A job share arrangement would be considered.

Main duties of the job You will be dealing with a very wide variety of health needs in a primary care setting, working individually and as part of a team to ensure a very high standard of care for all our practice patients.

You will also carry out administrative and associated clinical duties in relation to the position.

We are an EMIS practice.

About us Crickhowell Group Practice is a General Practice based in Crickhowell, Powys. We are a rural practice located within the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. We are six miles from the vibrant town of Abergavenny, 13 miles from Brecon, and only 25 miles from Cardiff. We enjoy good local schools and other amenities.

We provide a service to Crickhowell, Llangatock, Llangenney, and Gilwern and its surrounding villages.

The Practice has 8 Doctors (5 GP Partners and 3 Salaried GPs) and 5 Nursing staff (FTE). We have an excellent in-house Pharmacy team and we are a dispensing practice. We are supported by District Nurses, MSK Physio, Frailty Practitioner, Health Visitors, and Community Mental Health colleagues employed by the Health Board but operating from our practice. Crickhowell Group Practice is a very high achieving practice under the Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework, QAIF, and consistently receives high Patient Satisfaction ratings from our Llais reviews. We are a very busy centre and strive to ensure that our patients are cared for to the highest standards.

Job responsibilities The post-holder will manage and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered 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, 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.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Compiling and issuing handwritten and computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Undertake any medical reports for patients that are best known to yourself.
• Maintain safeguarding standards and partake in HIW inspections.
• 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.

Ensure training is in date and records are maintained both individually and for the Practice (Safeguarding, Information Governance, Prevent, Mental Capacity, and any other mandatory or individual clinical training).

Confidentiality:

• While 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 be responsible for their own management of 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, labeling, 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 process.
• 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 own clean working environment.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, and 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 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 in 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:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity, and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs, and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities, and rights.
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