Wordsworth Health Centre has a diverse patient list of over 11,000 patients. We have 3 GP Partners, 1 Salaried GP, 1 Practice Nurse, 2 Locum Nurses, 2 HCAs, 1 Paramedic, 2 Clinical Pharmacists, 1 Pharmacy Technician, 1 Social Prescriber and 2 Physiotherapists.
We are a long established Practice, currently looking for a Salaried GP who can do 4-5 sessions during the week.
We have an onsite car park and near East Ham Underground Station.
We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact the Practice Manager, Saadet Sangha 02085485960 or [email protected]
We are a friendly, well-established practice in East London looking for a Salaried GP to join our team.
The standard clinic is 15 slots per session, with a mix of face to face and telephone calls, including time for admin work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
It is essential
to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role and has the
ability to work as an effective person within our team.
We regard
ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member of the team is important
and receives due respect regardless of position.
It is our
common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our patients
in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.
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.
The post holder
is expected to support the partners of Wordsworth Health Centre in providing
all services outlined in the PMS Core Contract and also in the aims and
objectives of the Practice.
The post holder
is 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 the practice. Your performance in each area will be monitored and
referrals may be re-routed if appropriate.
The post holder
is expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical
records at all times. Full involvement in any practice training and ongoing
requirements of our status as a paperless practice is expected.
The post holder
is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.
1. Review of
Plan
This
appointment might be extended beyond 12 months but the period beyond 12 months
would be negotiable. The 1 year Job Plan will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9
months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the
employer and employee. 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:
(a) Clinical
duties: You are contracted to provide 4-5 clinical sessions each week between
the hours of 8.30 am and 18.30 hours.
(b) Provide
face to face and telephone consultations. Be part of the on-call duty doctor
system, dealing with urgent on-day queries until 6.30pm.
(c)
Appointments are scheduled at 12 minute intervals and you will provide face to
face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, clinics will be a
mixture of telephone and face to face.
(d) You may be
required to make home visits within the session time specified.
(e) You will be
expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other
health care professionals in your administrative time.
(f) You are
expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own
allocated batch of patients and also those that you have generated yourself;
(investigations
and queries related to your consultations). In the case of sickness of another
GP, their workload will be shared amongst all GPs.
(g) Clinical
duties will include seeing people with acute conditions, ongoing chronic
conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF
3.
Administration/paperwork:
(a) The
Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time in the job plan to
complete all administrative duties related to your clinical work, recognising
the fact that all practitioners work at different rates.
(b) Referrals
should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.
(c)
Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated documentation
dealt with within appropriate timescales.
(d) Results are
normally communicated electronically, you will be expected to action these on a
daily basis for your own patients. You will also take a share in dealing with
the daily post including correspondence addressed to you and to take a share of
the workload for absent Partners.
(e) Reports:
You may be required to complete examinations and reports for the benefits
agency and those expected under the PMS 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.
(f)
Computerised records: You will be expected to use 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.
5. Practice
Meeting and Personal Development
The practice 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, in discussions on clinical practice standards,
developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual
practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with colleagues in
the ICB etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical
workload may be required.
7. You will be
expected to provide support for any students or trainees in the practice when
this has been approved by the Partners.
8. You may be
expected to become responsible for particular areas of practice development.
9. You may be
expected to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework
(QOF).
10. Your time
table is negotiable and will be agreed upon your appointment.
11. Additional
sessions: The Practice may agree with a practitioner that he or she should
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.
12. Leave
entitlements: as per contract document