Salaried GP inCharlbury inCharlbury PUBLISHED FRI 3 JAN 2025

We are a unique dispensing practice in a picturesque Cotswold town with excellent railway connections to both Oxford and London. Attractive Cotswold Stone single site premises with good on-site parking. Easy access to Charlbury Station, which is only a 15 minute journey from Oxford Station. We use EMIS Web, AccuRx and Docman 10 and are a dispensing practice. We are a forward thinking practice with a strong cohesive, happy team.

We are seeking a Salaried GP for 2-4 sessions per week to include a Monday.

• 25 x 15 minute appointments and 2.5 hours admin per day.
• Contract includes Indemnity Insurance.
• Minimal home visits due to the support of Early Visiting Service.
• No Nursing Home.
• This post is offered as a permanent position with 6 weeks annual leave and 1 week study leave pro rata.
• Salary dependent on experience.
• Monthly afternoon practice meetings.
• Well supported by our existing team of clinicans and administrative staff.
• We are a Research Active Practice.

Our team currently consists of GP partner, Business partner, Salaried GPs, Prescribing Paramedic, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and we also have a physiotherapist, pharmacist, social prescriber and mental health practitioner working at our practice.

We are looking to appoint a part-time salaried GP to join our team for 4 sessions per week to include all day on a Monday.

There are opportunities within the surgery to take a lead role.

About us

The post-holder will manage a 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 temporarypatients. Responsibilities will reflect requirements of the NHS GP Contracts, and as such may be subject to change as services adapt.

Clinical responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery face to face, telephone and online consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

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

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other

care providers as appropriate

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)

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and

responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Completion of medical reports (including NHS and private services as required)

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.

prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

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

Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where

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

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may

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 post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management

their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice

health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection

control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice

guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /

contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process

including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage

and transport arrangements

Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct

use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,

staff and patients.

Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and

extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

Hand hygiene standards for self and others

Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure

Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient

care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to

infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are

followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as

appropriate to the responsible person

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a

way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and

manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient

processes

Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring

that proper use is made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are

sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be

escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

Maintenance of own clean working environment

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy,

clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective

action where needed or escalation to responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and

infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,

identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the

business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of

cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible

managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually) Correct waste and instrument management including handling, segregation, and

container use

Maintenance of sterile environments

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 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:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or

study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP 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

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 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

Recognize peoples 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