Job summary
4-8 sessions
Starting salary from £10,500 per session, depending on experience/extended roles.
6 weeks annual leave & 1 week study leave.
Supportive collaborative team environment.
Indemnity paid.
NHS pension.
Support for pursuing personal and professional development.
Partnership opportunity considered at later date.
We are willing to wait for the right applicant. Informal enquiries are welcome and informal visits can be arranged.
Main duties of the job
As a Salaried GP within the Fairfield Practice you will have clinical responsibilities relating to providing high standard of care for our patients. Extended Access provision for our patients is also included within the job description.
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You will be a part of a very supportive team
About us
We are
a friendly, supportive, forward thinking team in a busy inner city practice
caring for patients with an array of interesting medical problems.
We are
looking for an enthusiastic, committed, GP with a passion for General Practice
to join our Team
About us
PMS
Training Practice
4
Partners (3.5 wte), 2 Salaried GPs, ANP, 3 PNs, 2 HCA, 3 Clinical Pharmacists (2.5 wte), 2 First Contact Physiotherapists & an Excellent Administrative Team
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Size 12,800 High QOF Achievements CQC Rated Good
EMIS
WEB Clinical System & Docman 10
Close
ties to other members of the Primary Care Team - Strong Active links with our PCN Practices
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
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed
standards
- Collecting data for audit purposes when needed
- 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 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
- 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 participate in a full range of health 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
- Following 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)
- 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
- Following advice relating to infection control and clinically
based patient care protocols.
- 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 across
the full range of infection control and patient processes
- 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
- Identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards
and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas generally clean and sterile,
- 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 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 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
- 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 when appropriate
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified GP
- MRCGP
- Vocational Training certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
- General Practitioner (Certificate of completion of training CCT)
Additional Experience
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- National Performers List Registration
- Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU)
- Eligibility to practice in the UK independently
Desirable
- Experience of medicine management
- Experience of PCN/CCG initiatives
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a primary care environment
- Experience of continued professional development
- Experience of QOF and clinical Audit
- General understanding of the PMS contract
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
The Fairfield Practice
Address
41-43 Fairfield Grove
Charlton
London
SE7 8TX