ARRS Salaried GPinRuncorninRuncornPUBLISHED FRI 10 JAN 2025

Are you a newly qualified GP (within the last two years, without a substantive post) with an interest in womens health looking for an exciting and supportive role to launch your career? R Health Primary Care Network are seeking enthusiastic, forward-thinking GPs to join our team on a fixed-term salaried contract for 12 months. Although the post is 12 months fixed term the PCN will review this when further clarity is available from NHS England on funding.

This is an exciting opportunity for a GP already qualified to fit contraceptive implants and coils to expand their interest in womens health, or if not already qualified you will be supported to undertake the necessary training and further develop your knowledge and skills, supported by experienced GPs across the network to provide LARC fitting as part of your role.

You will benefit from 6 weeks annual leave and 1 week study leave pro-rata. In practice educational sessions and PLTs are included within the 1 week study leave.

The PCN consists of 6 practices and covers a population of just over 67,000 patients. Each GP will be aligned to 2/3 practices and will be offered mentorship and development within those practices as well as the support from GPHC as the employing organisation.

You will be employed by the GP Federation, GP Health Connect Ltd. The federation employ ARRS staff on behalf of the PCN and deliver services across Runcorn within the practices and community venues.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide high-quality, patient-centred care within the aligned practices.

- Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, pharmacists, mental health practitioners, first contact physiotherapists and social prescribers, to ensure integrated patient care.

- Conduct consultations, assessments, and follow-ups with patients.

- Provide LARC (coils and implants) fitting clinics

- Contribute to the management of chronic disease, health promotion, and disease prevention in line with best practices and PCN priorities.

- Participate in clinical audits, training, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care within the PCN.

- Support the development and implementation of new care pathways that align with ARRS objectives.

About us

Role Summary

The post-holder will provide general medical services managing 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 temporary patients.

Clinical Responsibilities

The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care. The following outlines the key responsibilities but is not an exhaustive list.

• In accordance with the practice timetable (Practice timetables will vary dependent upon the practice alignment), as agreed, the post-holder will make them-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, video consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, ward rounds, 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 advice 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.

Other Responsibilities

• 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 coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Contributing to teaching where appropriate
• Attending practice team meetings

General Duties

• To be available to take over the responsibility of patient care from the Out of Hours service at on a working day or where applicable maintain responsibility till the appropriate time when the Out of Hours service takes over care in the evening. This will involve working a shift pattern.
• To continue to work until all clinical tasks have been completed. To arrange with others to cover when planning to leave before the end of the session.
• At all times to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care and the development of a team spirit. 360-degree feedback is used to assess clinicians and you will be required to participate in this.

Communication and Relationships

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers and recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships will all key stakeholders e.g. Practice team members, PCN colleagues, Federation, Community Nursing Teams, Community Mental Health Care Teams, Social Services, statutory and voluntary services.

Safeguarding

• All members of staff have a responsibility to ensure the Safeguarding of patients within the organisation.
• Ensure knowledge of Safeguarding policies and training is up to date.
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

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 will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, member practices, staff, and other healthcare workers. 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 organisation may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
• Keep up to date with IG And GDPR legislation.

Quality

Participate in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit and the Quality and Outcomes Framework

• Follow the standards of Good Medical Practice
• Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality, and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews.
• 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.
• Participate and contribute to the practice achieving other quality standards such as ISO 9001, Investors in People, RCGP Quality Practice award.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will ensure the promotion and management of their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the organisations Health & Safety policy and the Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Ensuring adherence to individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation of these across all areas.
• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to organisation guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed
• 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, 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 other managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

Equality and diversity:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.

• To undertake any identified training and development related to the post identified in annual review.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
• Ensure own actions contribute to the maintenance of a quality service provision.
• Be responsible for the self-development of skills and competencies through participation in training and development activities and to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post.
• Undertake statutory and mandatory training as well as role specific training deemed appropriate.

Contribution to the planning and implementation of services

• Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Work with the colleagues to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, budgets, and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare.
• Contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by NHS/ DoH/ NHS England, Commissioning Clinical Group, new legislation etc.)