Salaried GP

Salaried GP at Church lane Surgery

We are a GP practice who have embraced technology, a people-centric approach, and is ably supported by efficient staff and patients. We are looking for one Salaried GP(preferably Newly qualified) to join our team working between 6 to 8 sessions per week (working across four days).

An exciting experience has arisen for a Salaried GP to join Church Lane Surgery. The candidate will work with clinical, reception and administration team in executing the clinical setup of GP practice

• Job Summary:
• The post-holder will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients presenting with a wide range of health care needs within a primary care setting. Working with clinical and operational colleagues in delivering a safe, high performing, effective, sustainable, innovative person centred medical service
• The post-holder will develop good working relationships with:
• Patients
• GP colleagues
• Nurses
• Additional Reimbursement roles
• Surgery staff
• Community healthcare staff
• Hospital staff

Clinical Responsibilities:

• To provide a comprehensive range of clinical duties at the agreed Surgeries within our Primary

Care Network, which may also include working within our Enhanced Access Service.

• To undertake surgery consultations, home visits where necessary, and telephone queries from

patients and health care professionals.

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether selfreferred

or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

• To undertake on-call duties as part of the Surgery on-call rota, where agreed. This may include

requesting that patients present at the surgery, telephone consultations, home visits and triage.

• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as

appropriate

• Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.

Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication

regimens, side-effects, and interactions

• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or

emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care

• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply

principles of self-care. Support and manage health needs of patients presenting for family planning

or sexual health consultations

• Assess, identify, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with national

and local guidelines.

• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols,

developing care plans for health

• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written

prescriptions whenever possible).

Other Responsibilities:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Surgery policies/guidelines, eg prescribing,

confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the Lead

GP.

• To attend and contribute to regular administration and clinical meetings whether formal or informal.

This may involve adjustments to workload to allow attendance.

• To keep up to date with current and forthcoming National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance

and their impact on primary care services

• To contribute to the clinical governance agenda of the Surgery and to fully participate in the

reporting of incidents as per Practice policy

• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data, contributing to

the maximum Surgery performance under QOF.

• Attending training and events organised by the Surgery or other agencies, where appropriate.

Communication

• Able to confidentially utilise a full range of communication methods to disseminate information to

large numbers of people

• Able to confidently adapt communication style and content to reflect different type of people when

making contact.

• Ability to receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and process appropriately;

and where needed translate this information into a delivery message or plan for the wider team.

• Lead in positivity and effective working relationships with commissioners, other health care

providers and other key health care providers and other key partners to support an integrated

approach to high quality patient care.

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

• Whilst performing the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to

confidential information relating to patients and their carers, surgery staff and other healthcare

workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Surgery as a business

organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

• Information relating to patients, careers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of

the Surgery may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Surgery policies

and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Job Type: Part-time

Expected hours: 24 – 32 per week

Work Location: In person