Job summary
A NewlyQualified ARRs GP, you will be allocatedto our Acute Care Team working alongside Allied Healthcare Professionals tohelp deliver acute, on the day demand, as well as harness the benefits of localteam working.
Ourteam centred approach includes team huddles, regular clinical meetings,quarterly protected learning time meetings as well as thriving and busy socialcalendar with an annual SHP Shining Stars Awards ceremony.
We recognise the transition from working as atrainee into an independent practitioner and will support you with a dedicatedSHP Partner mentor and a named clinical supervisor in addition to the widersupport package being offered by BSol ICB
Main duties of the job
To performas an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with otherhealth care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions ofpatients attending within the Acute Care Team within SHP PCN.
Provideexpert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure themaintenance of clinical excellence.
To beprofessionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinicalpractice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct, ensuring the safety ofpatients 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 description
Job responsibilities
Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will beavailable to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations,telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondencein a timely fashion.
Triage patientspresenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person.
Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation.
Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems.
Inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health and promoting healthy lifestylestrategies and education.
Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.
Check,manage & process patient test results.
Referpatients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally withinthe PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required.
Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and nationalguidelines.
Prescribingin accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate.
In general, thepost-holder will be expected to undertake the duties and responsibilitiesassociated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis.
Thepost-holder will undertake fair share of home visiting sessions per week asallocated.
Person Specification
Other Requirements
Essential
1. DBS
Desirable
2. DBS
3. Care Home Experience
4. GP trainer
5. Experience in understanding principles of operating an organisation/business
6. Experience in understanding frameworks of quality, performance workforce, finance, operations within primary care
7. Have/had leadership roles within commissioning/ICBs
8. PCN Experience
9. Experience and an understanding of new models of delivering primary care
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
10. Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
11. Strong IT skills
12. Clear Polite Telephone Manner
13. Flexible and Cooperative
14. Motivated Forward thinker
15. High level of integrity and loyalty
16. Sensitive and empathetic to distressing situations
17. Ability to Work as a team player and autonomously
18. Effective time management
19. Excellent interpersonal skills
20. Problem solving and analytical skills
21. Experience to follow clinical process and procedures
Desirable
22. Experience with clinical risk management
23. Experience with audit and quality improvement programmes
24. Experience with clinical risk management
Personal Qualities
Essential
25. Polite and Confident
26. Flexible and cooperative
27. Ability to work under pressure
28. Problem solver with the ability to process and interpret information
29. High levels of integrity and loyalty
30. Effectively able to understand the needs of the patient, staff and colleagues
Experience
Essential
31. Experience to work in a primary care environment
32. Experience of Continued Professional Development
33. Experience of QOF and clinical Audit
34. General Understanding of the GMS contract
Desirable
35. Experience of ICB initiatives
36. Experience of medicines management
Qualifications
Essential
37. Qualified GP
38. MRCGP
39. GP CCT (Certificate of Completed Training) from October 2022 onwards
40. Eligibility
41. Full GMC Registration
42. National Performers List Registration
43. Eligibility to Practice in the UK Independently
44. Not previously been substantively employed at a GP Practice