Salaried General Practitioner Opportunity

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Salaried General Practitioner to join our dynamic and supportive team at Great North Medical Group (GNMG). As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will provide high-quality primary care services to our diverse patient population, working collaboratively to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct a wide range of consultations, including face-to-face, telephone, and video appointments, in line with the practice schedule.
• Provide high-quality medical care to the patient population in accordance with the GMS contract, ensuring effective treatment and patient satisfaction.
• Make professional, independent decisions regarding patient care, whether patients are self-referred or referred by other healthcare professionals within the organization.
• Adhere to local and national prescribing guidelines, ensuring that all prescriptions are issued in line with best practices and practice protocols.
• Proactively manage patients with long-term conditions, working with patients to create and monitor care plans that focus on prevention and health maintenance.
• Treat acute illnesses, assess, diagnose patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, ensuring thorough evaluation of their healthcare needs and offering timely and effective interventions for both minor and serious conditions.
• Engage in proactive health promotion and disease prevention activities, including screening activities for disease risk factors and early signs of illness, vaccinations, and patient education contributing to proactive health management and disease prevention.
• Develop and implement individualized care plans in consultation with patients, following current practice protocols for disease management, and ensuring continuity of care.
• Provide patients with counselling and education on health promotion and disease prevention, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health and well-being.
• Admit or discharge patients from your caseload as appropriate, ensuring seamless referral to other healthcare providers when necessary, and coordinating care effectively.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records in accordance with NHS and agreed practice standards. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data. Participate in clinical audits and contribute to the quality improvement processes.
• Process administrative tasks in a timely manner, including handling referrals, repeat prescription requests, Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), reviewing patient letters and discharge summaries, and responding to queries promptly.
• Undertake appointments during extended contracted hours on a rotational basis, contributing to the practices availability and service provision.
• Participate in on-call and duty doctor roles as required, providing care and support during out-of-hours and emergency situations.
• Collect and analyse data for audit purposes, contributing to the practice's continuous quality improvement initiatives and compliance with clinical governance requirements.
• Prescribe medication as appropriate, in line with current evidence-based guidelines and patient-specific needs. Compile and issue computer-generated prescriptions for both acute and repeat medications, minimizing the use of handwritten prescriptions. Conduct regular medication reviews for patients with complex needs.
• Fulfil all standard duties associated with a GP working in primary care, including participation in multidisciplinary meetings of healthcare professionals, supporting practice objectives including nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, and administrative staff, to deliver high-quality care.
• Provide guidance and clinical leadership within the practice, supporting Registrars, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in their development.
• Attend and contribute to practice meetings effectively, sharing insights and participating in discussions to support practice goals and operations.
• Provide timely interventions for patients with urgent and emergency health issues, including making decisions on referrals to hospital services when required.
• Engage in continuous learning and professional development activities to maintain and enhance clinical knowledge, skills, and competencies in line with GMC requirements.
• Ensure compliance with the appraisal process and complete the revalidation process as required, maintaining professional standards and competence.
• Ensure that all clinical work is carried out in line with NHS contractual obligations, local and national policies, and General Medical Council (GMC) regulations.

Additional Responsibilities

• Engage in practice audits as requested by the audit lead, contributing to quality assurance and improvement efforts.
• Participate in local initiatives aimed at enhancing service delivery and patient care, supporting community health objectives.
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events, applying structured approaches such as root cause analysis (RCA) to identify and address underlying issues.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Delivering a Quality Service

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the GMC.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, practice policies and procedures
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to current guidance, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
• Actively participate in the practice significant event procedures. Ensure learning and actions from significant event reviews are implemented and reviewed.
• Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.
• Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused adults and be aware of statutory vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

Leadership, Personal and People Development

• Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice. Support and contribute to the teaching of nursing staff/ medical students/ GP registrars and administration staff as appropriate.
• Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to the area of work.
• Enlist support and influence stakeholders and decision-makers to bring about new developments in the provision of services.
• Take a lead role in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
• Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
• Be engaged with the practice in-house appraisal process and take responsibility for his/her own revalidation.
• Maintains currency with mandatory training as per Practice policy to ensure compliance with CQC standards.

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