An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Folly Lane Medical Centre working as a salaried GP

Sessions

• Thursday - Evening (18:30 - 20:00)

This is a permanent salaried position. There is also the opportunity (desirable, not essential) for the successful candidate to have flexibility to cover an additional locum day per week as required.

Main duties of the job

Folly Lane is a stable, friendly, forward thinking practice with a full complement of supportive staff including a Practice Manager, Operations Manager, Medical Secretaries, Administrators.

• Practice list 10,000
• System One practice with an organised workflow system to minimise GP admin.
• 100% QOF achievement
• CQC inspection - Good
• Challenging and rewarding patient demographic.

We are passionate about training, lifelong learning and career development, with interests across minor surgery, joint injections, contraception, training and commissioning.

• The post holder will carry out all the duties reasonably expected of an NHS general practitioner using the standards expected by the GMC and RCGP in line with appropriate national and/or local guidelines. As a salaried GP, you will support the 5 GP partners to manage a busy clinical caseload ensuring the highest standard of care for all patients.

About us

Current practice team:-

• 5 Partners
• Management Team
• Registrars
• Nursing Team
• Reception/Administration Team
• With additional ARRS staff including Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, FCP, SPLW, GPA, Nurse Associate.
• As a long established training practice we are keen for all Partners and staff to continue with lifelong training and to develop their roles. We currently have special interests in minor surgery, joint injections,contraceptive procedures, training and commissioning
• We have good relationships with other practices and play an active role in the CCG, with one of our partners being the clinical director for our PCN.

Job responsibilities

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety ofduties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations andqueries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation topresenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiatedand undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs ofillness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients andin line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload andreferring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreedstandards
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (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 thenormal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working withinprimary care.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practicepolicies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection,health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensureevidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard settingwithin the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-codingpatient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or otheragencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, orallow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health andother matters. They do so inconfidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect theirprivacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description,the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating topatients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcareworkers. They may also have accessto information relating to the practice as a business organisation.All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictlyconfidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, otherhealthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged toauthorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and proceduresrelating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitivedata.

Health & safety:

The post-holderwill implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of theirown and others health and safety and infection control as defined in thepractice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual,and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This willinclude (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according topractice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control andcleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, andgood practice guidelines
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of thespecimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use ofcorrect and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) andensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriatecircumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures inboth routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individualinfectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinicallybased patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols acrossthe practice
• Active observation of current working practices across thepractice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and relatedactivities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/trainingneeds are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsibleperson
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertakingsuch activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical andpatient process
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills,and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range ofinfection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation toinfection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansingfacilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a goodclinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated asappropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own cleanworking environment
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining workareas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards.Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation toresponsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safetyhazards 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 workareas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenanceof general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation(where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twiceannually)
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling,segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding andpromoting 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 andpolicies, 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 prioritiesand rights.

In addition to maintaining continued educationthrough attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure thatprofessional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder willparticipate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part ofthis employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review,including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personaland/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning andperformance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who areundertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain qualitywithin 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 ownand team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhancethe teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meetpatients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effectivecommunication 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 communicationand respond accordingly.

Contribution tothe implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standardsand guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• -Current GMC certificate
• -Inclusion on performers list
• -Interpersonal skills
• -Time Management

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.