Salaried GP - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Oakwood Surgery

Description

Job summary

Salaried GP required 4 sessions per week Monday & Friday.

Come & work at Oakwood Surgery, we are a friendly welcoming practice rated GOOD by CQC.

We are also a high QOF achieving practice.

Capitation: 10,500 approximately

At Oakwood Surgery our passion is to provide the best possible healthcare to our patients. We are a friendly team looking for likeminded people who can help us make a real difference to our patients lives.

The practice is well supported by experienced administration and nursing teams.

The successful candidate will work with our whole team to deliver the highest quality primary care services. More specifically, the Salaried GP will be responsible for assessing patients, working with our multidisciplinary team undertaking the clinical duties and responsibilities associated with working as a General Practitioner in line with GMC and RCGP standards.

Evidence required of GMC registration with License to practice. Registration on the NHS Performers List.

Experience in using EMIS and Docman ideal. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Flexible and good team working skills. Organised, clinically effective and efficient. Passionate about Primary Care.

Purpose built premises with car park on site.

Work Remotely

Job Type: Part-time

Benefits:

Schedule:

Work Location: In person

Main duties of the job

MainPurpose of Job:

Tosupport the GP partners in the Practice to manage a busy, interesting clinicalcaseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading onkey disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment, staff training andprescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for adiverse suburban patient list; including Directed Enhanced Servicescommissioning, patient participation and health promotion.

About us

We are a long established General Practice providing quality health care in Sparkhill. We strive to provide safe and compassionate care for all our patients in an environment that supports the whole of our team

Job responsibilities

Oakwood Surgery

Job Description

Salaried GP

JobTitle:

SalariedGP.

RoleSummary:

Thepost-holder will manage a patient caseload and deal with a wide range of healthneeds, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporarypatients.

MainPurpose of Job:

Tosupport the GP partners in the Practice to manage a busy, interesting clinicalcaseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading onkey disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment, staff training andprescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for adiverse suburban patient list; including Directed Enhanced Servicescommissioning, patient participation and health promotion.

Responsible to:

The PracticePartners.

Maintasks of job:

ClinicalResponsibilities

1)Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will makehim/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork,referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.

2)Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within the Practice.

3)Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems.

4)Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

5)Inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health.

6)Providingcounselling and health education.

7)Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate.

8)Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

9)Collectingdata for audit purposes.

10) Compiling and issuingcomputer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-writtenprescriptions whenever possible).

11) Prescribing in accordance with thePractice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinicallyappropriate.

12) Ensuring that all work carried outwhich carries a private fee is properly recouped and accounted for; Medical Reports, Insurance reports, Private letters to third Parties etc.

13) In general, the post-holder will beexpected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associatedwith a GP working within primary care.

Otherresponsibilities within the practice:

1)Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

2)Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice.

3)Contributingto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the Practice.

4)Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records.

5)Contributingto the summarising of patient records and accurate Read-Coding of patient data.

6)Attendingtraining and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.

7)Mentoradditional roles within the practice.

Confidentiality:

Dataprotection is a top priority for the Practice. The Data Protection Act placesobligations on us to ensure that data is processed lawfully and storedaccording to its strict provisions. You are required to uphold the Companysdata protection policies when dealing with information about patients, carers,colleagues, other healthcare workers. Our work is of highly confidential natureand information gained must not be communicated to other persons except in therecognised course of duty. Unauthorised disclosure of confidential informationwill result in disciplinary action and may lead to your dismissal.

Information relating to customers, colleagues, otherworkers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorisedpersons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating toconfidentiality and the protection of personal and special category data.

Health& Safety:

The post-holder will assist inpromoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security asdefined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

1)Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to Practiceguidelines.

2)Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a waythat manages those risks.

3)Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills.

4)Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy andsafe way and free from hazards.

5)Reportingpotential risks identified.

Equalityand Diversity:

The post-holder will support theequality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

1)Actingin a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation.

2)Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

3)Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/ProfessionalDevelopment:

1)Inaddition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any coursesand/or study days necessary to ensure that professional developmentrequirements are met, the post-holder will participate in any trainingprogramme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such trainingto include:

2)Participationin a Practice based annual individual performance review, including takingresponsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professionaldevelopment.

3)Maintainingskills and knowledge for CPD and accreditation via the annual GP appraisalprocess.

4)Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive tomaintain quality within the Practice, and will:

1)Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk.

2)Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision.

3)Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.

4)Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.

5)Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise theimportance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

1)Communicateeffectively with other team members.

2)Communicateeffectively with patients and carers.

3)Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.

Contributionto the planning and implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

1)ApplyPractice policies, standards and guidance.

2)Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect their own work.

3)Participatein clinical audits when requested or where appropriate.

The abovelist serves to illustrate the scope and responsibilities of the post and is notintended to be an exhaustive list of duties. You will be expected to performdifferent tasks as necessitated by the development of this role as the practicedevelops, and the overall business objectives of the practice change.

Qualifications

Essential