Salaried GP - Scarborough, United Kingdom - Haxby Group (Scarborough)

Description

Job summary

Excellent GPs wanted for hard but rewarding work.

Salary range of £10,500 £11,550 per clinical session (recently increased)

Opportunity for development in specialist areas, with a strong ethos to develop portfolio working:

Main duties of the job

You will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range ofhealth needs in a primary care setting, utilising technology, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

About us

We are well organised, innovative, and focused on highquality have a long track record of training, supporting, anddeveloping GPs from being trainees through to salaried GPs; some of whom haveprogressed on to partnership positions with us.

We are an adaptable, agile, and stable partnership, offeringjob security for any prospective employee. We are actively involved andintegrated at regional and national levels, to promote general practice andsecure its future.

Wehave positions available in both our York and Scarborough teams. If you are interested, please forward your CVand covering letter to our HR team at We would welcome conversations withinterested candidates, and the HR Team will be happy to arrange informal telephone conversations with one of our partners by request.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

You will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of healthneeds in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for allregistered and temporary patients. As a senior member of staff you will beexpected to set an example to others, assist in supervision, education andtraining and to play a full role in target achievement and service development.

You must work at all times within your own competence and useyour own judgement, knowledge and common sense in your day to day activities.

Clinical Responsibilities:

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, you willmake yourself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and if appropriate email consultations,visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion.

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation topresenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health careworkers within the organisation.

Assessing the health care needs of patients withundifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs ofillness.

Participating in health promotion activity and some specialistservices such as obesity, addictions and sexual health clinics (for whichappropriate training will be given as required).

Pro-active engagement with the practice population and widercommunity to promote healthy living, encourage uptake of services and optimisehealth-seeking behaviour. This may include visits to local schools, communitycentres and other groups as necessary.

Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery asappropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, makingreferrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate.

In consultation with patients and in line with current Practicedisease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from theNational Institute for Clinical Excellence, developing care and treatmentplans.

Providing counselling and health education.

Ensuring appropriate follow up of (both registered andtemporary) patients.

Recording clear and contemporaneous computerised consultationnotes to agreed standards.

Collecting data for audit purposes.

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).

Prescribing generically whenever appropriately and in accordancewith the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good PrescribingPractice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance).

Working with and support other members of the primary healthcare team in delivering high quality primary care.

Promoting the application of standards and codes of Practice setby the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council, Departmentof Health, and local NHS trust.

Play a leading role in the practice achieving agreed QOF andother key performance indicator targets.

Take lead responsibility for targets and services allocated,such as a QOF area of Enhanced Service.

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all thenormal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primarycare.

Other Responsibilities:

Involvement and contribution to the mentoring, supervision andtraining of the broad multi-professional clinical team.

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practicepolicies/guidelines, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, healthand safety.

Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highestpossible quality standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key PerformanceIndicator targets.

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensureevidence-based best practice.

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard settingwithin the organisation.

Attendance at regular in-house governance and educationalmeetings and training as well as events at other agencies as appropriate.

Assistance with the training of other staff members.

Contributing to the development of computer-based patientrecords.

Contributing to the summarising of patient records andRead-Coding patient data.

Business responsibilities:

Assist with the gathering of statistics and information whenrequired.

Undertake specific assigned tasks, project support ordevelopment which may arise from time to time.

Maintain accurate and complete documentation and recordsutilising as appropriate and in accordance with Haxby Group protocol.

Follow agreed protocols, referring to senior people forguidance.

Demonstrate pro-active engagement with the practice populationand wider community to promote an uptake of services.

Maintain the ethos and culture of Haxby Group.

Positively promote Haxby Group.

Ensure rationalisation of resources.

To assist in enhanced and extended services to grow theprofessional offerings of the business.

To help plan, develop and support the introduction of newworking processes to optimise quality.

Train staff to attain optimum performance.

To build and maintain relationships with other healthcareprofessionals, including GPs, GP surgery personnel, care home personnel, CCGpersonnel etc.

Behave in a professional manner at all times.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable