Salaried GPinChristchurchinChristchurchPUBLISHED FRI 7 MAR 2025

Your new Salaried GP role:

We are offering an exciting opportunity for 6 sessions per week, Monday, Tuesday and Friday. You will be supported by our friendly team of clinicians; 6 GP partners, 5 salaried GPs and a large nursing team. Our clinical team work closely to support each other, and regular team meetings are supported by the practice where our clinicians can communicate and suggest new and improved ways of working.

Services to be provided by you:

Face to face appointments, telephone triage of patients, covering duty days, home visits when required, telephone appointments, complete all necessary documentation relating to patient care, including referral letters, medical reports, and certification of sickness.

About us

To provide NHS general medical services to registered and temporary patients on the Practice list.

In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.

To assist in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions.

Completion of clinically related administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of service.

Refer patients for further opinions and interventions according to Practice protocols.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence.

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.

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.

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.

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.

Maintaining, monitoring, and updating computer database and management of medical records and practice audits:

Ensure that practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under QOF and Enhanced Services.

Appropriate use of read codes.

Participating in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits.

Participating in the auditing of practice activity.

Practice organisation:

Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence

Attendance at in-house meetings, significant event audit meetings and others as deemed necessary

Ensure that the practice complaints system is adhered to at all times

Awareness and compliance with all relevant guidelines e.g. data protection, confidentiality and health and safety

Personal/professional development:

Maintain current CPR and anaphylaxis certification

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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

Contributing to the development, learning and performance of medical students through supervision and demonstrating skills and activities.

Contributing to the development of research studies.

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

Work effectively with health care professionals in other agencies to meet patient needs.

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:

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 correcting 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.

Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use.

Maintenance of sterile environments.

To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.

Equality and diversity:

Acting in a way that recognises 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.

Quality:

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:

Communicate effectively with other team members including those team members that work within the locality i.e Christchurch Primary Care Network.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.