Job summary
- You would require to be available to the Practice between the core hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs on the agreed working days.
- Triage home visits as required and undertake the same
- Sign all relevant prescriptions and deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
- Deal with all clinical roles within the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
- Participation in the Practice on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
- Take responsibility of acquiring the Practices QOF, Enhanced Services and any other contractual targets
- Ensure services are provided to a high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the identified needs of service users.
- Comply with all clinical governance requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and organisational performance, including appraisal.
- Continually update personal professional knowledge and competence by undergoing continuing professional development and lifelong learning.
- In collaboration with members of the team cascade acquired knowledge, learning and expertise in order to enhance skills and competencies of other clinicians.
- Identify best practice and disseminate accordingly, for exampled through benchmarking, clinical guidelines and research evidence.
- Develop new roles and responsibilities when then need arises and reflect and respond to the demands of the service.
- Liaise with relevant agencies and the local community to promote knowledge and awareness of the services provided
Main duties of the job
- You would require to be available to the Practice between the core hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs.
- Triage home visits as required and undertake the same
- Sign all relevant prescriptions and deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
- Deal with all clinical roles within the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
- Participation in the Practice on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
- Take responsibility of acquiring the Practices Enhanced Services and any other contractual targets
About us
Overview of your organisation
We are a growing practice with approximately 9000 patients registered.
We are based over 2 sites :
Stretton Medical centre and Stretton Branch surgery.
The nursing team is made up of 2 Practice Nurses currently.
We also have our GPs, Practice Manager, Admin and Reception team and care coordinators, ARRS Roles who provide first contact physios, pharmacy technicians and Mental Health nurses
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide Personal Medical Services to acceptable clinical standards to patients, both in surgery and on home visits.
- Respond to medical problems presented by patients on the medical list, including history taking, examination, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, referral where appropriate and adequate documentation with READ coding onto the GP Computer system.
- Provide appropriate health promotion and preventative health care and advice to the Practice patients attending the centre within the context of primary health care.
- Attend all team meetings and other meetings as may be necessary for PMS duties.
- Carry out clinically related administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of personal medical services.
- Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
- Provide emergency cover for absent colleagues from time to time as detailed.
- Maintain patients clinical records in line with the electronic patient record system.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to provide quality care
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Knowledge of clinical IT systems , particularly EMIS
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within a GP Practice and primary care setting
Desirable
- Experience of working in a primary care setting
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 .
Employer details
Employer name
Stretton Medical Centre
Address
5 Hatton Lane
Stretton
Warrington
Cheshire
WA4 4NE