Salaried ARRS GP - Rochdale North PCN inRochdale inRochdale PUBLISHED WED 4 DEC 2024

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Supportive Transition, Newly qualified ARRs GPs benefit from structured mentorship, including a dedicated Clinical Lead mentor and a named clinical supervisor, ensuring a smooth transition to independent practice.

Team-Centered Approach, Regular clinical meetings and quarterly protected learning time promote collaboration and continuous learning within the healthcare team.

Autonomous Practice, GPs have the opportunity to make independent decisions regarding patient care, enhancing their professional development and confidence.

Diverse Responsibilities, The role includes a wide range of duties, such as surgery consultations, home visits, and managing long-term conditions, providing a varied and fulfilling work experience.

Focus on Quality Care, Adherence to GMC code of conduct emphasizes patient safety and quality of care, aligning with professional standards and ethical practice.

Data and Audit Emphasis, Opportunities to engage in data collection and Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) requirements foster a culture of accountability and improvement within the practice.

Community Impact, Working within the Rochdale North PCN allows GPs to make a meaningful difference in the local community by addressing diverse patient needs and promoting healthier lifestyles.

The role of a Salaried ARRS GP at Rochdale North PCN involves providing comprehensive healthcare services across various GP practices, focusing on acute, same-day demand. As a newly qualified GP, you will transition from training to independent practice with support from a dedicated Clinical Lead mentor and supervisor, as well as engagement in team-centered activities such as clinical meetings and protected learning sessions. Key responsibilities include assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients, developing care plans, managing long-term conditions, conducting consultations (both in-person and via telephone), processing prescriptions, and ensuring high standards of patient care in line with GMC guidelines.

The position requires making autonomous clinical decisions, documenting consultations accurately, and participating in quality control processes, including QOF compliance and data collection for audits. The GP will also be tasked with fair distribution of home visits while collaborating with other healthcare professionals within the PCN to ensure effective patient management and referrals as necessary.

A Newly Qualified ARRs GP, you will be allocated across the GP practices to help deliver acute, on the day demand, as well as harness the benefits of local team working.

Our team centred approach includes, regular clinical meetings, quarterly protected learning time meetings.

We recognise the transition from working as a trainee into an independent practitioner and will support you with a dedicated Clinical Lead mentor and a named clinical supervisor in addition to the wider support package being offered by Rochdale North PCN.

To perform as an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending the GP practices.

Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.

To be professionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct, ensuring the safety of patients and the quality of their care is the focus.

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In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports, 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.
In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education.
Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards. Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.
Check, manage & process patient test results.
Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (e.g. to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required.
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines.
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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis.

The post-holder will undertake fair share of home visiting sessions per week as allocated.

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