We are a 7,000-patient training practice located in Leamington Spa, known for being high QOF achievers and delivering excellent patient care. We consistently score highly in the national patient survey, reflecting our commitment to providing top-tier service. Our focus is on building a supportive team environment that allows us to offer high-quality care.
What We're Looking For
We are seeking a team player with:
* A good sense of humor
* Excellent communication skills
* Dedication to working collaboratively to maintain our high standards of patient care and service
Main Duties of the Job
Job Summary for Salaried GP
* Role : Provide 4 clinical sessions weekly, supporting 2 partners. This helps free them for administrative and teaching duties. The practice uses EMIS Web.
* Qualifications : GP Performers List, MRCGP, CPR certification, and full driving licence.
Main Responsibilities :
* Provide safe and effective care for registered patients.
* Work with the team for coordinated care, manage patient queries, handle prescriptions, and participate in the duty rota.
* Contribute to QOF, extended hours services, and administrative tasks.
Administration/Development :
* Manage records, referrals, and liaise with external healthcare providers.
* Participate in practice meetings and contribute to continuous professional development.
About Us
As a training practice, Whitnash Medical Centre hosts GP registrars, ensuring a focus on learning and development within a supportive environment. The team includes a diverse group of healthcare professionals, from GPs to nurses and healthcare assistants, all focused on delivering high-quality care. They emphasise teamwork, communication, and a positive work environment, aiming to create an atmosphere where both patients and staff thrive.
The practice offers a range of services, including joint injections, minor surgeries, diabetes management, and more, to meet the community's needs.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Role Overview : You will be working as a salaried doctor to provide 4 sessions per week clinical support to the 2 partners. Your input will allow the partners more time to undertake the necessary CCG/Federation/Network/Teaching and administrative aspects of general practice. We are an EMIS Web Practice.
Hours of Work : Your standard clinical session will be 4hrs 10 min, clinical contact being mainly consultations but may include home visits and telephone calls. Within this session there is a 1 hour 10 minute non-clinical time (NCT) that includes administrative/CPD (20 mins) time as well as 2 admin slots. When you are undertaking a duty Dr day you will be expected to be available to receive work from 8:00am until 6:30pm, including being available on your mobile as the OOH contact 8:00-8:30am & 6:00-6:30pm (calls are extremely rare in reality). There may be additional hours required to complete the duty doctor workload for the day, according to each day's need.
Working Days : You will be required to work 2 sessions daily, days to be confirmed (either Thursday & Friday or Monday & Tuesday).
Surgery Times & Duties : On non-duty days you will be working a morning surgery of 2.5 hours plus a maximum of 2 visits (more often than not there are zero visits) and an afternoon surgery of 2.5 hours. On days when you are duty you may need to extend your surgery as demand requires. The duty template will be the same for all doctors. Duty days require considerable flexibility; this may involve longer clinical sessions as the need arises each day. The duty rota will be apportioned pro-rata between all doctors.
Annual Leave : 6 weeks + Bank holidays pro rata. These must be booked with 6 weeks notice and co-ordinated with the practice plan.
Study Leave : 1 week per year pro rata for personal study (in addition to CPD time incorporated within each session in non-clinical time) that requires reasonable notice to be accommodated. Evidence of CPD activity/certificates will be required for all study leave.
Salary : £10k-£10.5k per session per year.
Sickness/Maternity : Based on Whitley council standards.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical
* To provide safe effective clinical care to patients registered with the surgery on an acute or ongoing basis as the clinical need arises.
* To work within the practice team to share knowledge and experience to facilitate joined-up, continuous health care contributing to close team working and good communication.
* To make appropriate clinical decisions with regard to involving external agencies including secondary care.
* To contribute to the practice extended hours service pro-rata, that may include Saturday morning (8am-11am) or weekday evening surgeries, whilst the surgery is signed up to offer this enhanced service.
* To contribute to the duty doctor rota on a pro-rata basis, duty days requiring availability from 8am-6:30pm with a varying clinical load and duties according to daily need. This includes surgery, telephone, scripts, visits, staff emails, processing results of those on annual leave, supporting other clinical staff etc.
* Process a share of medicines management/prescriptions.
* Process your own results/path reports.
* Process a share of the documents handling tasks/documents/requests.
* To be involved in QOF, Enhanced services and other service provision and work streams as needed by the practice.
* To participate in duty cross cover for annual leave of others by sharing out of absent doctors' duties. (Your scheduled duty days will be reciprocally covered when you are away).
Duty Days Include:
* Coordinate home visit allocation and complete the allocated visits required on the day. (where duty, you will be responsible for any visits added to the list after 1pm).
* Be first point of contact for urgent requests (Duty Dr Days) generated by patients through the admin/reception team.
* Support other clinical staff where required (GP Registrar, Nurse, HCA, Admin, Reception team) including patient reviews, tasks, prescription signing or other task assisting their clinical work.
* Managing appointment book.
* Managing your share of on-the-day medication requests and all medication requests received after 3pm.
* Signing of paper scripts.
* Process Tasks from Docman letters & the admin team (shared between all docs).
* Processing of own results as on normal days but also actioning the results of doctors that are on leave or off sick.
* Be available on own personal mobile between 8:00-8:30am & 6:00-6:30pm.
Administration / Management / Development
* To keep accurate and clear medical records including correct use of Read codes/SNOMED codes.
* Be responsible for managing your own path results and a proportion of scanned letters each day.
* Use practice IT systems to do referrals, certificates and other administrative tasks associated with clinical work in a correct and timely fashion.
* Private reports / medical insurance work will be only when clinically necessary. Time to be taken from non-clinical allowance.
* To liaise with, and communicate professionally with, external agencies to ensure appropriate health care outside the practice for our patients.
* Participate in practice weekly meetings where requested (when occur within contracted hours).
* Work within the provided clinical system and team to ensure we meet our QOF targets.
* Keep up to date with and attend mandatory training using study leave allowance or your own time where necessary. For any in-house training you are required to attend, you will be offered TOIL at the discretion of the partners.
* Be familiar with and adhere to all practice procedures and policies including but not restricted to:
o Confidentiality and data protection
o Health and safety
o Safeguarding
o Equality and diversity
o Safe prescribing
o Infection control
o GDPR
* Participating in personal continual professional development.
* Undertake required yearly NHS appraisal in accordance with GMC requirements (1 clinical session will be cancelled for this). An internal appraisal will take place annually in NCT.
* When required to work with the partners and management team to develop and deliver patient care from Whitnash Medical Centre, both in-house and within the context of local GP services/Primary Care Network.
Essential Qualities
* Be on the general practice performers list.
* Be fully trained GP with JCTGP vocational training certificate or MRCGP.
* Be up to date with CPR.
* Current and full driving license.
* Good computer literacy.
* Be an excellent communicator and have a passion to work within a small team.
* Good time management skills.
* Be willing to ask for help and know your own limitations.
* Be able to work under your own initiative and motivation.
* Be willing to share good practice and experience for the good of the team.
* To have full medical defence cover for the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Be on the general practice performers list.
* Be fully trained GP with JCTGP vocational training certificate or MRCGP.
* Be up to date with CPR.
* Current and full driving license.
* Good computer literacy.
* Be an excellent communicator and have a passion to work within a small team.
* Good time management skills.
* Be willing to ask for help and know your own limitations.
* Be able to work under your own initiative and motivation.
* Be willing to share good practice and experience for the good of the team.
* To have full medical defence cover for the role.
Desirable
* Interest in Women's Health.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details
Employer Name
Whitnash Medical Centre
Address
110 Coppice Road
Whitnash
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV31 2LT
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