Salaried GP, Gloucester Health Access Centre
We are looking for clinicians to join our practice in Gloucester.
G DOC LTD has an opportunity for GPs who enjoy working in a team environment to join our Gloucester Health Access Centre (GHAC) practice operating in the centre of Gloucester. We have sessions available at GHAC and also its Branch Surgery in Matson.
GHAC has a stable clinical staff structure in place but increasing patient population and demand means we are looking to augment the current GPs with an additional salaried GP(s) covering up to 6 sessions.
We offer highly flexible working that can be tailored to your needs and balanced with patient requirements. We share on-call duties across all GPs, guarantee finite patient contacts per day, and offer an excellent work-life balance.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a new or established GP seeking a salaried position.
Highly competitive pay in excess of £13,000 per 5 hour session. (Note, there is some flexibility in session lengths).
Flexible hours to accommodate a portfolio career, family responsibilities, and out of work interests.
Friendly, supportive, and expert practice teams who work alongside our GPs taking care of routine clinical administrative tasks.
Closing date: 19 February 2025
Interview date: 26 February 2025
The Care Quality Commission requires us to have a complete employment history from the age of 16, including explanations for any gaps in employment.
Main duties of the job
* Primary care clinician duties including, but not limited to - face to face consultations, video consultations, telephone consultations, e-consultations and queries. Also, home visits, duty doctor, on-call responsibilities, clinical administration, prescribing, and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. Acting as Named GP for a share of registered patients proportionate to contracted hours.
* As part of the Practice team, contributing to the delivery of QOF and enhanced services.
* Contributing to the management and development of the Primary Care Network, including the performance of work undertaken by the Practice as part of the PCN.
* Helping to ensure that the Practice remains safe and effective, including by the use of clinical audit and learning from significant events and complaints. Attending team meetings. Actively contributing to safeguarding.
* Helping to ensure that the Practice provides a supportive working environment for clinicians, trainees and other employees.
* Supporting colleagues learning and professional development, as well as your own.
* Complying with the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice and other standards for doctors.
* Helping to ensure that the Practice complies with CQC requirements for primary care, including all fundamental standards of care.
About us
G DOC LTD is owned by all the GP Practices in Gloucestershire; the Practices are our shareholders.
We operate on a not-for-profit basis: any profits are redistributed into primary care in Gloucestershire.
We are a limited company run by a Board of Directors, most of whom are experienced local GPs.
We run a number of GP practices, as well as some other services for the whole county.
In Gloucester we run 9,500 patients at Gloucester Health Access Centre/Matson Lane (9,500 patients) and Partners in Health (12,400).
In the Forest of Dean, we run two practices, both of which are dispensing: Lydney (7,500 patients), and Blakeney (3,200 patients).
Our countywide services include:
G DOC is running a Covid Medicines Service to help and support the high-risk patients in Gloucestershire.
Over 17,000 primary care appointments each year at Gloucester Health Access Centre for patients who may need to be seen the same day when their own practice is already full, or who do not have a registered GP. GHAC is open 8am-8pm, 365 days a year.
Job responsibilities
* You will be required to be immunised in compliance with Green Book and NHS recommendations for your role.
* Ensuring that you always work within your own competencies and training.
* Complying with G DOC policies.
* Observing health and safety guidelines at all times.
* Any other reasonable duties that may be required from time-to-time.
Clinical responsibilities
* In accordance with the Practice timetable, you will make yourself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations e.g. insurance companies, on behalf of the Practice, referral letters, and NHS private paperwork and correspondence.
* Acting Named GP for a share of registered patients proportionate to contracted hours.
* Undertaking a share of the clinical and administrative work of the Practice, including pooled clinical admin, QOF, audit, prescribing reviews etc.
* Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
* Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.
* Collecting data for audit purposes as per Practice protocols.
* Reviewing patients for the purposes of quality improvement and safety. i.e. MRHA safety alerts and dementia reviews.
* Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
* Cover for other doctors by reciprocal sharing of correspondence, results and prescriptions for absent doctors.
Other responsibilities with the Practice
* Contributing to the teaching and training of trainees, new employees and employees who are undertaking training.
* Awareness of and compliance with all relevant G DOC policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice.
* Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
* Attending training, Practice meetings and clinical meetings and events organised by the Practice, PCN, or other agencies such as the ICB, where appropriate.
* Contributing to audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g. Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF audit etc.)
* Treating colleagues with courtesy and respect.
* Complying with G DOC's values, and the values of your practice/team.
Confidentiality
Comply with the Confidentiality Agreement.
Health & Safety
* Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, you have a personal responsibility to have regard to your own and others safety.
* You should familiarise yourself with fire exits at all sites where you work, and the action that you should take in the event of a fire.
* Personal alarms are available from G DOC for all GPs, wherever you are working. Your site induction should cover local procedures for summoning external help. Please ensure you familiarise yourself with these local procedures.
* You must comply with site Health and Safety procedures, including those that concern clinical waste, use of hazardous substances, and the use and disposal of sharps.
* Health and safety hazards should be reported to the Practice Manager.
* You should dress appropriately and professionally. To reduce the risk of sharps injuries, shoes should be closed (not open sandals).
* You must ensure that your car is insured for commuting and home visits.
* GPs in Gloucestershire have been the victims of serious & sustained stalking and violence. You should not give anyone outside the Practice information about when and where colleagues will be working. Refer any queries about rotas etc to the Practice Manager or G DOC. Be aware that stalkers may have knowledge of the local healthcare system and sound very plausible.
Equality and Diversity
* You will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
* Acting in a way that recognises 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.
Safeguarding
* Ensure you are familiar with G DOC's safeguarding procedures.
* Report all concerns promptly, following the safeguarding procedures.
* Ensure that you maintain an appropriate level of safeguarding training for your role.
* Contribute to meetings and other safeguarding processes, as appropriate to your role.
Quality and Patient Safety
* You will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
* Comply with the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice.
* Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews.
* Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision;
* Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance;
* Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs;
* Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
* Avoid working if you are impaired from doing so safely or effectively, for example due to illness.
* Avoid working excessive hours that might impair your clinical performance, and ensure that you have sufficient rest between Clinical Sessions. You must not work a daytime clinical session for G DOC if you have worked during the previous night, unless you have had at least eight hours break between the two sessions.
* Ensure that any necessary handover and follow up arrangements for patients have been made.
* Include work for G DOC in your appraisal discussions, including any complaints or significant events in which you have been involved, and audit results where provided.
* Inform G DOC if you have concerns about a colleague that might affect patient safety.
* Inform G DOC of any complaints or significant events that have arisen from your work for G DOC, whether in services directly provided by G DOC or for a third party provider.
* Participate in investigations of any complaints or significant events that have arisen from your work for G DOC in a timely manner, if asked to do so.
* Inform G DOC within two working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if you are under investigation by the General Medical Council or NHS England (e.g. the PAG), an employer or an ICB.
* Inform G DOC within two working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if you have any restrictions or conditions imposed on your practice by the General Medical Council or NHS England (e.g. the PAG), or an ICB.
* Inform G DOC within two working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if you have been suspended or removed from the National Performers List.
* Inform G DOC within two working days or before your next Clinical Session (whichever is sooner), if you have been charged with any criminal offence.
Communication
* You should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
* Communicate effectively with other team members, including through use of email, TeamNet and other agreed communication channels;
* Communicate effectively with patients and carers;
* Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly i.e. signing and use of telephone and face-to-face translators.
You will check your NHS email and TeamNet each working day.
Contribution to the planning and implementation of services
* Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance;
* Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work;
* Participate in audit;
* Work with colleagues and the management team to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, budgets and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare.
* Contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by NHS England/ DoH/ ICB/new legislation etc.)
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GP Registration
Experience
* See Job Description
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.
Depending on experience in excess of £13,000 per 5 hour session.
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