PCN General Practitioner inStockton-on-tees inStockton-on-tees PUBLISHED TUE 14 JAN 2025

An exciting new opportunity has risen for a General Practitioner to join our team of forward thinking multi-disciplinary team for the PCN which includes Social Prescribing Link Workers, Care Coordnators, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Cancer Care Faciliators, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Primary Mental Health Nurses.

6-8 sessions available.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working through their own rota and will undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone and video consultations, video, queries and visiting people at home if required. They will be responsible for following up their own investigations and will benefit from regular supervision and reflection sessions with GP colleagues.

We are committed to the ongoing development of our team, which includes mandatory and developmental training for all our staff. Team members are encouraged to highlight any training they feel would benefit them in the achievement of their role.

The GP will undertake a variety of duties governed by the GMS contract and objectives of Enhanced Services including:

• Share of routine and urgent appointments both face to face and telephone.
• Prescribe as per local & national guidelines.
• Share of home visits if required.
• Time-manage completion of administration: letters, results, tasks, referrals, telephone calls, emails.
• Take responsibility for appropriate referrals (following local guidance and good medical practice) and administration pertaining to them.
• Participate in Extended Hours between 6.00pm - 8.30pm if required by the PCN.
• Work with other health and social care providers to ensure a safe and integrated service. Provide comprehensive assessment, advice, and treatment for the registered practice population.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive records of consultations using SystmOne.
• To provide clinical support to other members of staff, both clinical and administrative, in achieving the highest possible standards of care and QOF and Enhanced Services targets.
• The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

About us

CLINICAL

• Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care within the hub, surgery, patients own home.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly referring patients to other services/agencies in a timely manner using local guidelines.
• To recognise the need for and be able to perform and interpret investigatory procedures, including laboratory and radiology.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Ensure appropriate follow up of patients.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.
• Support and work with colleagues towards the delivery of anticipatory care plans.
• Recognise and work within your own competence and in accordance with professional codes of conduct, maintaining accurate and contemporaneous health records.
• Independently prescribe for patients within your scope of practice. Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
• Review medications following the appropriate policies, NICE/local clinical guidelines and local care pathways.
• To maintain an awareness of developments in clinical practice.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice/PCN policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety and QOF standards.
• Be aware of your duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to our policies and procedures on Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults.

CONFIDENTIALITY

You will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their Carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. 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.

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 AND SAFETY

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in practice's Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to PCN 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, including maintaining a tidy and safe way work area free from hazards. Effective hand hygiene.
• Provide advice on the correct and safe management of the specimen's process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct containers, storage and transport arrangements.
• Correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in both routine and extraordinary circumstances.
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure.
• Safe use of sharps, storage and disposal.
• Reporting potential risks identified.

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 recognises the importance of people's 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.