Salaried GPNHS

Job summary

Cruddas Park Surgery are excited to recruit a Salaried GP for six sessions including one fellowship session (negotiable/pro-rata). The post would offer a new challenge to an established GP or the opportunity to flourish as a newly qualified GP.

Cruddas Park Surgery believe we offer a unique approach to Deep End primary care supporting the most vulnerable and invisible through our motivated and expert clinical and non-clinical staff, specialist clinics (including Health Inclusion drop ins, Learning Disability and Special Allocation Scheme), links with the VCSE and Local Authority, and innovative approaches to tackling mental illness through The Space, our multi-agency one stop mental health hub.

The fellowship session has been a successful model in the past and would include a mutually agreed period of protected non-clinical time and regular senior supervision on joining the practice. This session would then become an opportunity to develop an area of clinical or non-clinical interest which was of benefit to our patients.

Employment is subject to the terms of the BMA contract at £12,925 per session including paid CPD time and 6 weeks holiday pro rata. Current routine sessions are 11 new patient face to face appointments. A shared practice electric car is available for home visiting. We have a clear desk policy for holidays and active social calendar including a running club.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will manage an unselected caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients in line with local and national guidelines as well as practice policies. They would be expected to contribute to the pro-rata Duty and Triage rota and home visits; assist in education, supervision and training; as well as play a full role in achieving local and national targets and quality improvement targets. Please see job description for further information.

Job description

The post-holder will manage a patient based caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. As a member of the team and one of the employers they will be expected to set an example to others, assist in education and training and to play a full role in target achievement and service development.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• The GP will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required.
• 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 in line with the practice timeline guidelines.
• Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well 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.
• Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance).
• 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, Department of Health, and local CCG.
• Play a role in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key performance indicator targets.
• Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, e.g. a QOF area or an Enhanced Service.

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 targets.
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Attendance at regular in-house governance and educational meetings and training as well as events at other agencies as appropriate.
• Assist with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

The GP will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Make effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Use appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Report potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

The GP will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, 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 priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The GP will maintain continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for appraisal and revalidation are met. This may include training needed for areas of Practice Development.

Quality:

The GP will strive to maintain quality within 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 own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The GP will recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

About us

Cruddas Park and our satellite surgery Hillsview serve a diverse and growing population of nearly 12,000 patients. We are a Deep End practice, and our core values are inclusion, trauma informed care and the belief we are first and foremost family doctors. We are proud to be a Haref ally, Safe Surgery and Living Wage Employer.

Cruddas Park is an active training practice for GP Registrars and Undergraduate Medical Students. We also have active involvement in primary research. There will be opportunities for the successful applicant to be involved in both.

As a practice we have an open-door policy with supervision from our partnership team being available on every working day and the opportunity for whole team discussion and learning in our fortnightly protected clinical meetings.

We are happy to consider flexible working and would welcome applications from GPs from minoritised communities particularly practitioners who can consult in a second language or have local knowledge.

We welcome informal enquiries and look forward to hearing from you.