GP Physician
6 hours ago
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced GP Physician to join our team at Balmore Park GP Surgery. As a GP Physician, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care, managing a personal list of patients, and dealing with a wide range of health needs in a GP primary care setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake a variety of duties including consultation, visiting patients at home, checking and signing prescriptions, and dealing with workflow, queries, paperwork, and correspondence.
- Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether patient-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organization.
- Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
- Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Develop care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
- Provide counseling and health education.
- Record clear and contemporaneous IT-based consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collect and collate data for audit purposes.
- Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
- Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary.
- Be aware of the Practice's Safeguarding Policy and willingness to refer to the Safeguarding lead where appropriate.
Other Responsibilities:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, prescribing, safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection, health, and safety.
- Willingness to share duties arising from the Practice's extended hours commitments.
- A commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organization.
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
- Contributing to the summarizing of patient records and read-coding patient data.
- Attending meetings, training, and other events organized by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality and Data Security:
- 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.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers, or the business of the practice may only be transmitted or divulged to authorized persons and organizations in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Willingness to inform the Practice's Caldicott Guardian and Practice Manager of any suspected data breach.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder may be asked to implement and lead on a range of clinical and managerial issues, including their own and others' health and safety. Issues may include infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.
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 recognizes the importance of people's 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 that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental, and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities, and rights.
Personal/Professional Development:
In addition to maintaining necessary continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning, and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk, raising issues both clinical and administrative as well as significant events.
- 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 team's performance.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs.
- Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively and respectfully with other team members.
- Communicate effectively and respectfully with patients and carers.
- Recognize people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance.
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards, and guidelines will affect own work.
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification:
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Fully trained GP with JCTGP Vocational Training Certificate.
- Current and full driving license.
- Any outstanding or pending penalties or prosecutions must be disclosed and stated on application or as they occur after start of employment.
- Higher postgraduate membership, for example, MRCGP / nMRCGP, MRCP, DRCOG, DCH.
- Current registration with the GMC and appropriate representation with a recognized medical defense organization.
- Current DBS check.
Experience:
Essential:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding of the pressures faced by GPs and healthcare teams.
- Willingness to contribute to and participate in a peer support group.
- Strong levels of IT proficiency and familiarity with primary care clinical systems (the Practice currently uses EMIS). Experience in using the Microsoft suite of programs.
- Proven ability to offer support within a clinical team and share learning points in Practice meetings.
- Ability to draft cogent, error-free letters and reports in a timely manner.
- A good understanding of PMS contracting requirements and the operation of the Quality Outcomes Framework process.
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