Salaried GPNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Salaried GP to join the team at Northern Medical Centre. Applications are welcomed from GPs at all stages of their career.

This post is well-suited to a GP who values collaborative working and is interested in modern models of general practice. You will contribute to developing innovative systems that improve access, safety, and continuity, while working in an environment designed to support sustainable workloads and professional satisfaction.Working days- Wednesday and Thursdays (All day- 4 Sessions per week)

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a supportive, multidisciplinary clinical team delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to a diverse population. The role combines clinical sessions with shared responsibility for triage, continuity of care, and clinical administration, supported by robust systems and a highly effective wider team including pharmacists and administrative staff.

Job description

• A range of face to face, telephone and triage sessions for patient contact, both same day and planned care where appropriate.
• Manage pathology results for tests generated through patient contacts.
• Use and adhere to practice systems for excellent communication and handover with lead GP and other relevant MDT colleagues, including any clinicians working off-site.
• Support the triage process for all patient-led demand.
• Contribute to clinical admin including evaluating, actioning and processing hospital correspondence and results. This includes ordering appropriate tests and ensuring safety netting and follow up. You will contact the patient to complete tasks where this is required.
• Supporting other members of the MDT including pharmacists, paramedics, nurses, physician associate, healthcare assistants and administrators with clinical and process questions as needed.
• Participating in and being visible as part of the practice team, including attendance at clinical team meetings and whole team meetings.
• QI and audit projects, depending on need.
• Pay attention to appropriate coding, note keeping and flagging of any system issues as they arise.
• Act on safeguarding concerns with named leads where appropriate.
• Demonstrate your commitment to high quality, safe care that supports clinical continuity for those patients and crucial clinical circumstances where this is crucial.
• Take part in learning events, audits, and discreet pieces of work where formally agreed.
• Respect ways of working that have been agreed among the clinical team.
• Commit to understanding your role in practice systems and to flagging where there are learning events so the system can improve.
• Commit to learning new IT systems and innovations in use of IT in service of patient care.
• Commit to supporting continuity where this is clearly best for the patient.
• By taking responsibility and ensuring you follow through and complete tasks where possible (therefore avoiding unnecessary follow up or work by others).
• Discuss cases with colleagues where appropriate with a commitment to learning from experience and sharing learning.
• Respect multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Work across organisational boundaries when this is in the interests of patient care.
• Keep up to date with new guidance.
• Your work will particularly support continuity of care, safety and quality for complex or urgent cases:
• You will take responsibility for managing complexity and facilitating continuity of care where appropriate.
• Informing other GPs about complex cases known to them.
• Display your clinical reasoning clearly in the records.

About us

Islington GP Federation (IGPF) is a growing organisation representing 31 practices; we have established ourselves as a leader in new ways of working, including running Islingtons extended access primary care services (I: HUB) as well as supporting the Islington Primary Care Networks (PCNs).Our current range of services include the Extended Access Service, I: HUB, Community Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Integrated Community Gynaecology, practice-based pharmacists, and a range of practice support mechanisms.

IGPF works very closely with a range of partners including the regional commissioning group, NHS England, Healthy London Partnership, Public Health, local hospitals such as UCLH, Whittington Health and the London Borough of Islington.

IGPF is the host organisation for the Primary Care Network (PCN) workforce and the Islington Training Hub and has been working for over two years to create training and development programmes that meet the needs of staff working in primary and community care settings.IGPF runs four Islington GP practices. City Road Medical Centre is a GMS practice; two are APMS contracts and one caretaking contract.