Salaried GPNHS

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic Salaried GP to join our multi-professional team for 4-6 sessions per week.

We are a friendly, forward thinking organisation with approx. 39,000 patients based across 3 practices, Greystone House Surgery in Redhill, Moat House Surgery in Merstham and Caterham Valley Medical Practice in Caterham,. This position will be ideally based at Greystone House Surgery but there may be the opportunity to also work at Moat House or Caterham Valley.

As a training practice we thrive on developing our staff in a supportive and professional environment, and as a high performing organisation we are dedicated to providing our patients with the best possible care and service.

Main duties of the job

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 patients. You will assist in education and training of clinical staff and medical students. The post-holder may also support the medical care for patients at local care homes.

Job description

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will:

Hold your own list of patients.

Make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and digital triage, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Be required to be on-call for clinically urgent and emergency problems and consequently be included in the doctors on-call- rota.

Be required to make home visits for your own patient list within the session time specified

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate

Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well as wider guidance such as that from NICE

Ensure appropriate follow up of patients

Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards

Collect data for audit purposes

Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible

Prescribing generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance, Good Prescribing Practice

Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care

Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council and Department of Health

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key Performance Indicator targets

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

Attendance at regular in-house partnership, locality, governance, educational meetings and training as well as events with other agencies as appropriate

Assistance with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate

Must act in accordance with the partnership agreement

Other duties or activities as agreed by the Partners

About us

We are a forward thinking, well organized training practice with a high reputation for quality and standards. We encourage and support the personal development of all our staff and are keen to ensure the right person joins our friendly team.

• Fourteen Partners across three sites (5 in Redhill)
• Purpose built practice
• GMS, 16,000 patients (39,000 across the three site Partnership)
• Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Pharmacists
• Training Practice for Registrars, Foundation Yr 2 GPs, Physician Associates, Medical students & Nurses
• EMIS Web
• AccuRx
• Abtrace