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SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER with Great North Medical Group in Doncaster, South Yorkshire
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Salaried General Practitioner (GP) to join our dynamic and supportive team at Great North Medical Group (GNMG). The successful candidate will provide high-quality primary care services to our diverse patient population, working collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients. As a GP at GNMG, you will be responsible for the holistic management of patient care, offering consultations, assessments, and treatments in line with current best practices. You will contribute to the practice's goals by delivering outstanding medical care and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. About us JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically) THE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT TEAM (Administratively) HOURS: 6 SESSIONS OVER 3 DAYS (Mondays, Thursdays & Fridays) Interview Date: 9/12/2024 Job summary: We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Salaried General Practitioner (GP) to join our dynamic and supportive team at Great North Medical Group (GNMG). The successful candidate will provide high-quality primary care services to our diverse patient population, working collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients. As a GP at GNMG, you will be responsible for the holistic management of patient care, offering consultations, assessments, and treatments in line with current best practices. You will contribute to the practice's goals by delivering outstanding medical care and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. Key Responsibilities: The core responsibilities of the Salaried GP at GNMG include, but are not limited to, the following. Additional tasks may be required depending on workload and staffing levels: Patient Consultations: Conduct a wide range of consultations, including face-to-face, telephone, and video appointments, in line with the practice schedule. Medical Care Delivery : Provide high-quality medical care to the patient population in accordance with the GMS contract, ensuring effective treatment and patient satisfaction. Autonomous Clinical Decision-Making: Make professional, independent decisions regarding patient care, whether patients are self-referred or referred by other healthcare professionals within the organization. Prescribing: Adhere to local and national prescribing guidelines, ensuring that all prescriptions are issued in line with best practices and practice protocols. Chronic Disease Management : Proactively manage patients with long-term conditions, working with patients to create and monitor care plans that focus on prevention and health maintenance. Acute Care: 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. Preventative Care, Health Screening and Health Promotion: 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. Care Planning: Develop and implement individualized care plans in consultation with patients, following current practice protocols for disease management, and ensuring continuity of care. Counselling and Health Education: Provide patients with counselling and education on health promotion and disease prevention, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. Patient Management: Admit or discharge patients from your caseload as appropriate, ensuring seamless referral to other healthcare providers when necessary, and coordinating care effectively. Clinical Administration: 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. Administrative Duties: 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. Extended Hours: Undertake appointments during extended contracted hours on a rotational basis, contributing to the practices availability and service provision. On-Call and Duty Doctor Responsibilities: Participate in on-call and duty doctor roles as required, providing care and support during out-of-hours and emergency situations. Audit and Quality Improvement: Collect and analyse data for audit purposes, contributing to the practice's continuous quality improvement initiatives and compliance with clinical governance requirements. Medication Management: 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. Team Collaboration: 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. Clinical Leadership and Mentorship: Provide guidance and clinical leadership within the practice, supporting Registrars, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in their development. Practice Meetings: Attend and contribute to practice meetings effectively, sharing insights and participating in discussions to support practice goals and operations. Emergency Care: Provide timely interventions for patients with urgent and emergency health issues, including making decisions on referrals to hospital services when required. Continuous Professional Development: Engage in continuous learning and professional development activities to maintain and enhance clinical knowledge, skills, and competencies in line with GMC requirements. Appraisal and Revalidation : Ensure compliance with the appraisal process and complete the revalidation process as required, maintaining professional standards and competence. Contractual and Legal Compliance: 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 Audit Participation : Engage in practice audits as requested by the audit lead, contributing to quality assurance and improvement efforts. Local Initiatives: Participate in local initiatives aimed at enhancing service delivery and patient care, supporting community health objectives. Significant Events Review: 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 mode. 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.