Job summary
Doyou want a regular income with greater flexibility in hours?
Areyou looking for an opportunity to expand and utilise any additional specialist skills?
Do you want to helpdevelop new ideas of team working and efficiency?
Wemay be just what youre looking for!
Weare looking to expand our friendly and supportive clinical team at our long establishedtraining practice for Frimley VTS scheme within KSS deanery.
Wehave a diverse practice team including the additional roles of socialprescribing link workers, clinical pharmacist, care co-ordinator andparamedics. We are active members of our Primary Care Network.
We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and once we receive enough applications the advert will be closed.
1. Full-time or Part-time (from 4-6 sessions withflexiblestart and finish times within our opening hours of 8am-8pm)
2. Competitive salary
3. You will be required to work Friday. In addition, you will have the option to work Wednesday and/or Thursday.
4. Great work life balance with low to none home visits
5. Duty list capped Practice follows BMA safe working Policy
6. 1 GP session = 14 patient contacts
7. Competitive Salary with MDU /MPS reimbursed
Main duties of the job
8. 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 and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
9. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
10. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
11. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
12. Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
13. Providing counselling and health education
14. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
15. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
16. Collecting data for audit purposes
17. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
18. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
19. 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
GMS practice, listsize 11,800
2 partners & 5 salariedGPs
1 long term locumdoctor
Dynamic nursing team
1 Nurse Practitioner
1 Advanced CarePractitioner
1 ParamedicPractitioner
Home visiting team ledby community paramedic
HighQOF achievement
Purpose builtpremisesnear Town Centre
On-site Physio, Pilates and Podiatry withstaff discounts
Pain &MSKCCG service provider
Full use of electronicservices like Accurx, triage first, EMIS Ardens templates and e-consultationservice
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:
20. 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 and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
21. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
22. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
23. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
24. Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
25. Providing counselling and health education
26. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
27. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
28. Collecting data for audit purposes
29. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
30. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
31. 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:
32. Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
33. A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
34. Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
35. Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
36. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
37. Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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):
41. Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
42. Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
43. 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
44. 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.
45. Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances ( pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
46. Hand hygiene standards for self and others
47. Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
48. Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
49. 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
50. Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
51. 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
52. 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
53. Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
54. Maintenance of own clean working environment
55. 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
56. Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
57. 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
58. Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
59. Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
60. Maintenance of sterile environments
61. 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:
62. 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
63. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
64. Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
65. Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
66. Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
67. Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
68. Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
69. 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
70. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
71. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
72. Communicate effectively with other team members
73. Communicate effectively with patients and carers
74. Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
75. Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
76. Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
77. Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
78. Willingness to undertake continuing professional development.
79. Able to work in a highly confidential environment
80. Able to work as part of a team
81. Able to stay calm in a crisis
82. Able to adapt new ways of delivering primary healthcare
83. Ability to recognise the importance of peoples rights and respect their privacy, dignity, needs and belief
84. Open and reflective
85. Willingness to work on a rota, visit patients and flexible to working hours to meet the needs of the practice clinical commitment.
Qualifications
Essential
86. Medical Degree
87. GMC Fully Registered
88. Medical Indemnity
89. Currently on Performers list
90. Evidence of professional development
91. Good Communication (Oral / Written) Skills
92. Working knowledge of MS Office Applications
93. Knowledge in practice evidence based approach to medicine including patient evaluation and triage procedures.
94. Have an understanding of CCG or other stakeholders working directives.
95. Good understanding of GP practice and Quality Outcome Framework process.
96. Knowledge of clinical operations and procedures.
97. Understanding of clinical governance and quality issues
98. Good clinical skills
Desirable
99. MRCGP
100. Problems solving and a solution focused approached
101. Sensitive to patient issues
102. Working knowledge of Emis
103. Knowledge of current issues facing NHS
104. Docman experience
105. Innovative and keen to explore new ways of delivery care