Job summary
Calow and Brimington Practice is at the heart of a diverse community servicing over 7,700 patients close to Chesterfield. We are looking for a salaried GP (maternity cover - fixed term), to join our friendly and supportive team, 2 days (4 sessions), per week.
Our practice is situated close to the Derbyshire Peak District and within easy reach of Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham.
Calow and Brimington Practice is a well-managed, dispensing practice, delivering excellent patient care. We are a friendly, experienced and outgoing team. Our clinical team consists of 3 GP Partners, 4 Salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 TNAs and 3 Healthcare Assistants. We value patient centred care and as a smaller GP practice, we make a big impact with the patients and families within our community.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a GP who wants to provide excellent clinical care to our patients. Someone who is conscientious, reliable and flexible, to join our strongly valued team.
About us
- Competitive salary, 6 weeks holiday (pro rata)
- Flexible working hours, which could accommodate other interests and commitments
- Low home visit rate
- Stable team with excellent staff retention
- Supportive environment with regular opportunities in the day for catching up with colleagues
- Protected learning time
- SystmOne clinical IT system
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL
PRACTITIONER (MATERNITY COVER)
REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)
THE PRACTICE MANAGER
(Administratively)
HOURS: Subject to agreement
Job summary:
The post-holder will manage a caseload 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.
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
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and
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
- 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 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 implement 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, and 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.
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Fully qualified GP, eligible to practice in the UK with GMC registration and on the Medical Performers List
- Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Enhanced DBS check
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Good time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
- Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
- Clinical Governance
- Work with the GP Partners and practice team towards the delivery of QoF targets and other practice objectives/targets
Desirable
- Experience of TPP System One
- Experience of EPS prescribing
- Experience of AccuRx
- Adaptability to change
Qualities/Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to recognise own limitations and act upon them appropriately
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
- Ability to work within the changing structures of the NHS and work to requirements of other regulatory bodies
- Caring with the ability to listen and empathise
- Ability to work with and contribute to the whole Practice Team
Desirable
- Commitment to professional development
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
Calow and Brimington Practice
Address
Foljambe Road
Brimington
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S43 1DD