Salaried GP

East of England, East of England

Permanent

£85,000.00 to £95,000.00

Other Allied

Salaried GP

Job summary

Lakeside Healthcare Stamford has a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, patient focused GP to join our friendly, hardworking team. If you share our values of Caring, Teamwork, Respect and Quality we would love to hear from you.

Salary £85,000 - £95,000 FTE, based on 9 sessions (8 clinical and 1 CPD) per week.
NHS Pension, 33 days annual leave plus 10 statutory holidays per-annum pro-rated.
Option to progress to Partnership.
Flexible working hours
Mentoring and support available for newly qualified GPs

We are a GP partnership, just at a larger scale. This scale allows us to be locally led by our local GP partners whilst providing the safety and security of central support again, led by GPs.

We are a stable partnership with a diverse clinical and administrative team delivering quality primary care services to our 28k patients. With our strong team ethos, we take a collaborative approach to service design and delivery believing that our team have the best solutions and ideas of how primary care is delivered.

Main duties of the job

The salaried GP will be responsible for delivering the full range of primary care services as part of the practice ensuring the highest standards of care for the differing needs of our patient population. The salaried GP will work closely with the practices multi-disciplinary team of other GPs, nurses and nonclinical staff to provide a high quality and accessible service to patients.

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, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.

About us

Lakeside Healthcare is a large GP partnership that provides NHS care for around 170,000 patients across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. We are made of eight GP practices across 14 sites that are part of their local communities.

We work together as practices to provide resilience, sharing learning and professional back-office support services.

Our most important asset is our people, who provide care for our patients and help run our surgeries smoothly. We employ over 500 clinical and non-clinical staff, and we invest in training and developing to ensure that we retain and attract good quality staff who want to stay with us and be part of our team.

We are proud of what we do and strive to demonstrate our values of Caring, Respect, Quality and Teamwork in everything we do.

Here is what you can expect working at Lakeside Healthcare Stamford;

Team of 16 nurses/HCAs/GPA supporting and delivering minor illness, mental health, chronic disease and treatment room services.
Friendly team of 5 Partners and65 Salaried GPs, meaning support is always available.
Long established training practice, providing opportunities for career development.
Established pharmacist team supporting medication reviews, chronic disease and clinical correspondence.
Large multi-disciplinary team including Social Prescribers Link Workers, Care Co-ordinators and Safeguarding specialists.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The salaried GP will work closely with the practices multi-disciplinary team of other GPs, nurses and nonclinical staff to provide a high quality and accessible service to 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, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.
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.

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
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 (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible. EPS is now implemented at the Practice).
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.
Complete care plans required for local enhanced services.
Participate in Enhanced Services work required within the practice.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Prepare for and complete the annual external appraisal process.
Prepare for and complete the revalidation process.
Undertake training that meets personal, mandatory and practice learning needs including recording of learning, reflection, complaints, information governance etc.
Participate in and contribute to learning activities such as significant event reviews, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations.
Contribute to delivering teaching for doctors in training in the practice and other health professionals in training.

Other responsibilities with the Practice:

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 accurate Read-Coding of patient data.
Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS.

Desirable

Experience as a GP educator.
Experience of appraisal in practice or other setting.
Additional clinical skills beyond general practice.

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.