General Practitioner - Hope Family Medical CentreNHS
Job summary
This role is a fixed term maternity cover position for up to 12 months. We have a large team including 4 GP Partners, 3 salaried GPs, 2 Advanced Paramedic Practitioners, Nursing team. The practice operates with the following
- 15 min appointments
- Klinik triage system
- EMIS Web
- Regular clinical meetings and lunch together
- Supportive team
- We teach medical students from Cardiff and are Research Accredited, we plan to expand these areas.
- Protected educational time and active support and development of special interests.
Main duties of the job
The workload of the Surgery is shared jointly by the clinicians available on the day. The salaried GP is expected to take part in their share of clinical duties as outlined in the job description.
Job description
Clinical Duties Appointments, visits, dealing with queries from patients or other health care professionals.
Home Visits,if appropriate and agreed: These are shared amongst the GP team or the Specialist Practitioner present on the day, if patient appropriate.
Administration/Paperwork Arising both directly from own and Practice caseload, referrals, investigations, results. The Salaried GP is responsible for their own patient associated referrals, correspondence, administration and paperwork. They will be expected to take a share of practice general incoming clinical correspondence, scanned documents, repeat prescriptions, results and patient associated tasks for their registered list.
Clinical Read coding and medication reviews Opportunistic and Ad-Hoc accurate clinical read coding, using templates where available, to assist with Practice contractual compliance and monitoring. The Salaried GP is responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the protocols and procedures surrounding the collection of data for Enhanced Services to ensure that the Practice is reimbursed accordingly. Opportunistic medication reviews and issue updates should be adjusted where possible or appropriate.
PET Meetings The Salaried GP will be expected to attend relevant Practice meetings when they occur within rostered hours, PET sessions rotate days where possible to accommodate attendance.
Audits All staff are expected to instigate and partake in the audit process including initiating and running cyclical audits to assist in providing quality of care for patients.
Personal CPD The Salaried GP is expected to keep up to date with all Practice Protocols and Policies associated with their job role. Professional CPD is expected to be maintained by the Salaried GP including safeguarding as part of the revalidation process. The Practice will support personal CPD through the Practice PET sessions, CPD allocation and study leave allowance.
Clinical Supervision & Colleague Education As a Senior Clinician, you will be expected to provide clinical supervision to non-GP HCP colleagues where appropriate. This may be in the case of individual clinical learning opportunities or in the supervision and guidance deemed appropriate while supporting patient care. As a Teaching Practice the Partnership will expect you to help supervise our F1, F2, Doctors where appropriate and to take part in mentoring Student Placements where you have been allocated to do so.
About us
We run our practice from a new Health Centre in a pleasant large village between Mold and Wrexham, 10 miles from Chester and commuting distance to Liverpool and Manchester. Our list of patients is varied, and we have a current patient list size of over 10,200.