Job summary
Northumberland Heath Medical Centre is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Salaried GP to complement our existing Clinical Team. The post holder will be committed to providing high quality general practice to our patients.
We would like the post holder to work up to 8 sessions per week - hours and days are negotiable.
There are a number of benefits of choosing to work with us:
o Administration time is incorporated into each clinical session.
o The practice holds regular clinical meetings for all clinicians.
o Home visits are required shared amongst GPs each day.
o The holiday entitlement is 6 weeks plus one study week per annum pro rata
o Inclusion in the NHS Pension.
On-site parking is available at the practice and there are easy links to both London and Kent.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage patients and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. They will work to a standard BMA contract in conjunction with the BMA Salaried GP's Handbook.
About us
Northumberland Heath is a long established and well-respected PMS practice with a practice population of 14,000 patients. We are a friendly and supportive team, lead by 3 GP Partners, and active members of the North Bexley PCN. The practice uses the EMIS web clinical system and Docman 10, and are evolving to adopt new advances in technology as part of our journey to modern general practice.
We comprise of GPs, a nurse practitioner, practice nurses, clinical pharmacists and HCAs, who work closely together with the reception, secretarial, data and management teams to best serve our patients. We are a training practice and focus on development opportunities for all staff members.
Northumberland Heath deliver a wide range of enhanced services and is sited within grounds that accommodate a phlebotomy service, X-ray unit, mental health services and an urgent care centre.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:
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
Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting
problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers
within the organisation
Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and
undiagnosed problems
Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with
current practice disease management protocols
Providing counselling and health education
Referring to other care providers as appropriate
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed
standards
Collecting data for audit purposes
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
(avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or
generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
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:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines,
e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best
practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the
organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient
data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies,
where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
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
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the postholder 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
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):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice
guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and
regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice
guidelines
- 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
- 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.
- Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine
and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious
circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based
patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the
practice
- 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
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities
in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- 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
- 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
- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- 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
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- 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
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation,
and container use
- Maintenance of sterile environments
- 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:
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
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and
colleagues
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is nonjudgmental 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:
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking
responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional
development
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:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either
directly or under supervision
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
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
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:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and
respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and
guidelines will affect own work
Participate in audit where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MRCGP Qualification
- Full registration with the General Medical Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a primary care setting.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Northumberland Heath Medical Centre
Address
Hind Crescent
Northumberland Heath
Erith
Kent
DA8 3DB