Job summary
Career Development Opportunities for GPs!
Are you a GP
ready to progress into the role of Salaried GP Partner?
If you are
passionate about delivering first class patient care and excited to take the
next step in your career as a Salaried GP Partner, we would love to hear from
you.
Who are STHC?
We are a
not-for-profit GP Federation and valued system partner, set up to bring
together South Tyneside General Practices to work collaboratively in delivering
services at scale across the borough of South Tyneside.
What can we
offer?
A
motivated, multi-skilled and engaged workforce with a one-team ethos and a
culture of valued and happy staff.
Family friendly policies and flexible working options to support you
in balancing your priorities.
Resource
sharing across 2 GP surgeries.
Part
of a Primary Care Network with access to a range of clinical support roles
including Pharmacists, Podiatrists, MSK professionals, Mental Health
Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Health Coaches as well as practice teams of
highly skilled Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
Generous
annual leave allowance plus one week of self-managed study leave and protected
CPD time.
Enrolment
in NHS pension scheme.
Sessions
available from our purpose-built premises in Whitburn as well as our developing
training practice in Jarrow.
Access
to a one-off Golden Hello payment of up to £10,000 pro rata depending on
circumstances.
Main duties of the job
Partner
Responsibilities:
- To act as GP lead in agreed clinical areas
and be responsible to the partnership for the Practices achievement of
national and local targets e.g. QOF, enhanced services.
- To contribute actively to the operational and
strategic management and development of the Practice. Working closely with the Managing
Director to act as GP lead in agreed areas.
-
Assist with the clinical supervision and
training of Practice staff and others as agreed.
- To take an active role in oversight and
achievement of financial balance following practice budget planning.
-
The arrangement of annual leave will be
through mutual agreement of the
- Salaried Partners,
Salaried GPs and Practice Manager. This will be conducted through a meeting
twice a year (Spring & Autumn). The service must be safely staffed at all
times, failure to ensure adequate cover is in place may lead to the requirement
for leave to be cancelled. Holiday arrangements for peak times such as school
holidays should be agreed at least 6 months in advance.
- As a Salaried Partner the post holder will
fulfil the remits of the role to ensure the requirements of the GMS contract
are met. Similarly, it would not be expected that action would be taken which
would negatively impact on the practice's reputation or payments due to the
practice (under GMS Contracts).
- Please refer to the job description for further responsibilities.
About us
South Tyneside Health
Collaboration (STHC)
STHC
is a not-for-profit GP Federation and valued system partner, set up to bring
together South Tyneside General Practices to work collaboratively in delivering
services at scale across the borough of South Tyneside, reinvesting in
primary care services and improving GP capacity.
We
employ over 80 staff of both clinical and non-clinical roles, across the
delivery of our 4 Core Functions:
We
employ over 80 staff of both clinical and non-clinical roles, across the
delivery of our 4 Core Functions:
- Clinical Service Delivery
- Practice Management
- Primary Care Network Hosting
- Business Services
STHC manages two of its own general
practices, one in the beautiful coastal village of Whitburn and another, a developing
training practice in central Jarrow, with a combined list size circa 8,500.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties of the post are to provide a
full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health
Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as
deemed appropriate. These visits must be triaged and only offered to genuine
housebound patients.
As post holder you will be expected to support STHC
in providing all services outlined in the GMS contract, including work outside
of core hours (Extended Access). You will be expected to participate in the rota
with the medical team support to cover Enhanced Access sessions (6:30pm-8pm one
weekday and/or a Saturday 9am-1pm or 1pm-5pm or 9am-5pm monthly or bi-monthly
depending on need).
You will be expected to support and
input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good
practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit,
referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by STHC clinical
lead.
You are encouraged to utilise and
develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations,
child health surveillance, family planning training or any other services STHC
wishes to sign up to. This will be
subject to presentation of the appropriate certificates and update of relevant
courses.
You will be expected to maintain and
keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMC guidance at
all times. Full involvement in any STHC training and ongoing requirements of
our status as a paperless practice is expected.
You will be expected to maintain and keep
good standards of documentation using EMIS.
You will be encouraged to contribute to
the operational and strategic leadership of the practices within STHC.
You will be expected to lead in an area(s)
of clinical performance and/or service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to undertake all
the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within
primary care, with the addition of Partner responsibilities. The following list
is not exhaustive:
Lead Responsibilities:
- To act as GP lead in agreed clinical areas and be responsible for the Practices achievement of national and local targets e.g. QOF, enhanced services.
- To contribute actively to the operational and strategic management and development of the Practice. Working closely with the CEO to act as GP lead in agreed areas.
- Assist with the clinical supervision and training of Practice staff and others as agreed.
- To take an active role in oversight and achievement of financial balance following practice budget planning.
- The arrangement of annual leave will be through mutual agreement of the Head of Quality and Patient Services, Salaried GPs and Practice Manager. This will be conducted through a meeting twice a year (Spring & Autumn). The service must be safely staffed at all times, failure to ensure adequate cover is in place may lead to the require for leave to be cancelled. Holiday arrangements for peak times such as school holidays should be agreed at least 6 months in advance.
- As a Lead GP the post holder will fulfil the remits of the role to ensure the requirements of the GMS contract are met. Similarly it would not be expected that action would be taken which would negatively impact on the practices reputation or payments due to the practice (under GMS Contracts).
- Any Lead GP may retire/resign from the practice by giving the required notice period. During this notice period no other Lead GP is able to tender their resignation/request to retire.
- The responsibilities detailed above are key to the ongoing effective running of the practice, as a Salaried Lead GP you will not for any reason whatsoever wilfully neglect, refuse or omit to perform the duties laid out above.
- It is expected that the Salaried Lead GP would be named on the practice CQC registration.
- It is expected that Salaried Lead GPs will be named as contract holders on the GMS contract.
1. Review of Job Plan
Your role will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of
employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the STHC and yourself.
After this time it will be subject to annual review, or when there are any
significant changes to the work pattern suggested by either party.
2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:
Clinical
duties: You are contracted to provide an agreed number of sessions per week, as per your
contract, but you will be expected to be flexible, in particular during holiday
periods. You have agreed to deliver an agreed number of sessions per week for Extended Hours working.
Clinical
duties will include seeing people with both acute and long term conditions,
which will also include reviews based on the QOF
You
will be expected to be competent and confident to deliver face to face,
telephone, video and email consultation as the practice provides all of these.
Appointments
are scheduled at 10 minute intervals (which can be changed to longer when
appropriate) and you will provide face to face consultations in the morning and
in the afternoon, where this is clinically appropriate, and additional extra consultations
where demand is excessive.
You
will be required to make home visits within the session time, however the
actual number of house calls is very low and we have specialist care home
practitioners that carry out many visits that would otherwise have been
undertaken by a GP.
You
will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients
or other health care professionals in your administrative time.
You
are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own
patients and also those which have not been generated by yourself and if necessary, the investigations
and queries related to other clinicians within the practice, however we do have a robust process for the pre-screening
and resultant action of all results/incoming documents, so the GP gets very few
to act upon.
Referrals
should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.
Investigations
and referrals should be completed and associated documentation dealt with
within appropriate timescales.
Administration/paperwork:
Reports:
You will be expected to complete examinations and reports for the benefits
agency and those expected under the GMS contract on patients known to you.
Additionally,
you may be expected to complete reports requested by other parties such as
insurance companies, OFSTED and employers.
3.
Computerised records
You
will be expected to use EMIS bespoke software and follow appropriate processes
for computerised record keeping, including computerised clinical templates and
protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as determined by the
practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains. You will take part in
reconciling information input periodically.
4. Primary care team meetings:
formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team based care are held from
time to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with
the primary care team on a daily basis.
You will also be expected to attend any necessary PCN meetings (PCN South
or PCN West) and attendance at the monthly Practice Educational Events run by ICB
are encouraged.
5.
Personal Development - STHC is committed to the highest
standards of evidence based medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving
this. You will be expected to participate using your Personal Development Time
(dependant on sessions per week) in discussions on clinical practice standards,
developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners,
audit, significant event analysis, meetings with STHC clinical lead, colleagues
in the locality, ICB etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to
clinical workload may be required.
You
may be encouraged to become responsible for particular areas of practice
development.
You
may be encouraged to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes
Framework (QOF), BOS work, PCN work, IIF and other local initiatives.
6. Additional sessions: STHC may agree with a practitioner to
undertake work which is not specified in his or her Job Plan by way of
additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. The extra session(s) shall be
remunerated on a pro rata basis to a full-time practitioners salary. Any such
agreement shall be reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable
at three months notice on either side.
7. Leave entitlements: as per contract document
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
South Tyneside Health Collaboration
Address
Stanhope Parade Health Centre
Gordon Street
South Shields
NE33 4JP