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Steppingstones Medical Practice are looking for a highly motivated applicant to join our friendly team.
We are looking for a someone to who is willing to work along side us and continue to provide excellent care for our patients.
Steppingstones Medical Practice
Job Description
Job Title: Salaried GP
Accountable To: The Partnership
Sessions of Work: 4-6 sessions per week days to be discussed
JOB SUMMARY
The post-holder will support the practice to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload. They will work as one of a team of practice GPs, nurses and delivering general practice services to patients at Steppingstones Medical Practice.
Principle Responsibilities
The post-holder will undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, on-call, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with clinical queries, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations (e.g. Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice, referral letters NHS/private, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner
Making professional decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
Supervising and supporting trainee doctors.
Comply with the requirements of the practices General Medical Services (GMS) contract, Enhanced Services contracts and educational/training delivery contracts.
Clinical Responsibilities
Provide high quality medical services to patients registered with the practice
Refer patients as appropriate and in accordance with local protocols and procedures
Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards
Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Manage long-term conditions in accordance with practice, local and national clinical guidelines
Undertake duties such as prescription signing, prescribing reviews, telephone advice and queries
Extended hours if required in accordance with the rota
Participate in the Duty Doctor rota which involves dealing with urgent appointments, home visits, telephone calls and urgent results
Undertake clinics, postnatal checks, child developmental checks as agreed or required
Prescribe generically and in accordance with the practice formulary/ICB formulary
Provide appropriate health promotion advice to all patients
Undertake a share of workflow management of incoming correspondence
Provide medical reports and letters that require clinical input
Ensure good clinical governance is part of patient care and other practice activities
Adhere to practice guidelines, policies, and procedures
Practice evidence-based medicine
Take ongoing responsibility for patients with difficult and complex problems including consistent follow up
The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Non-clinical Responsibilities
Maintain clinical records (manual/electronic) in line with good practice and in accordance with practice procedures including appropriate coding as agreed in the practice
Maintain administrative records in relation to GMS contract, enhanced services contracts, and Long Term Conditions Framework and becoming LTC lead, including coding
Work as part of a team to ensure targets are met
Work in line with agreed practice procedures and protocols
Be available for informal contact with team members, especially other practice GP colleagues
Attend and participate on a regular basis on in-house clinical, and educational meetings
Contribute to the practices clinical governance and quality activities including clinical audit
Maintain regular and consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance and adherence to relevant Health and Safety guidelines
Training and Education
Prepare for and complete the annual external appraisal system, maintaining a license to practice
Prepare for and complete the revalidation process
Undertake training that meets personal, statutory and mandatory and practice learning needs including recording of learning, reflection, complaints etc.
Participate in and contribute to learning activities such as significant event reviews, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations
Contribute to delivering teaching for doctors in training in the practice.
Supporting and developing our other clinical and non-clinical colleagues
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:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
Ensuring job holders across the practice adhere to their individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management
Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation across the business
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others
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 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 senior managers
Undertaking periodic infection control training
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 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
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
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
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly Contribution to the implementation of services: The post-holder will:
Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance
Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
Steppingstones Medical Practice is an established family medical practice in the heart of Dudley. We provide care to approximately 8500 patients.
The Practice consists of an experienced and approachable team, including four GPs, Three Practice Nurses, One Health Care Assistant and a large admin team.
We are a training practice that normally support two to three Registrars at a time.