Salaried GP

The practice currently has an exciting opportunity available for a Salaried GP to complement its existing team of dedicated GPs and staff. You would join a friendly and committed practice team who were winners of the 2017 Lincolnshire GP Practice of the Year Award and are currently rated outstanding by CQC.

We have 6 clinical sessions available so are looking for 1 GP to cover these clinical sessions and we would be willing to wait for the right candidate.

Main duties of the job

• A trained General Practitioner, willing to use the online consultation software, AskMyGP on a daily basis and SystmOne.
• As we are a teaching practice, provide as part of a team training, teaching and supervision of other healthcare professionals.
• Home Visits as part of a rota.
• Ensure own clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations, arranging referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team if necessary.
• We are not looking to fulfil any areas of specialty. However, there will be opportunity in the future to develop.

About us We are a semi-rural practice situated 3 miles north of Lincoln and currently have approximately 12,600 patients. There are two sites, with Nettleham being the main site and a branch surgery at Cherry Willingham.

We have an extensive multi-disciplinary primary care team comprising of GPs, Physician Associate, Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Phlebotomists, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapist and Primary Care Chaplains.

The practice has the following values which are shared by all staff:

• Integrity
• Quality
• Compassion
• Respect

The practice prides itself in care to the highest standard (having regularly gained maximum clinical points in the Quality Outcomes Framework) and is currently rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

As part of our committed, innovative and friendly practice team you will receive a competitive salary and annual leave allowance.

The practice is part of Imp PCN which has been chosen nationally as one of 22 PCNs to be involved in a NHSE pilot.

Job responsibilities The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring high quality medical services to all patients in accordance with the practices procedures and protocols.

Will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing a full range of general medical services to patients. In addition to providing primary care services, the post-holder will be expected to be involved in liaison with other agencies.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make himself/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including face-to-face consultations, online consultations (using AskMyGP), video 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.
• Carry out home visits as required.
• 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 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 (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Provide Family Planning, contraceptive and ante/post natal care.
• Carry out virtual and face-to-face medication reviews.
• Prepare medical reports for insurance companies, employers and other statutory bodies.
• Maintain appropriate level of communication with other agencies for whom care is being given to the patients for whom the practitioner is responsible.
• 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 improving the efficiency and effectiveness of chronic disease management.
• Active participation in the management arrangements of the practice.
• 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.
• Participate in the teaching, training and supervision of other professionals, GP Registrars, undergraduate students attached to the practice both formally and informally.
• Assist the practice in maintaining GP training status.

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 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 correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognized.
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile . click apply for full job details