Job description

Job responsibilities

Educational Lead GP

Clinical sessions

The Educational Lead GP role is a hybrid of Lead GP clinical sessions with protected time to oversee the management and development of the Training Hub.

Lead GPs take a key role in being a visible lead to the clinical team to enable the provision of high quality and patient-centred clinical care within the surgeries. The appointment template varies at the different surgeries, but all GPs are expected to provide care for urgent and routine consultations through a mix of face to face consultations, telephone consultations, visits and sharing in the work of the duty team. Clinical sessions should take place at the surgery unless there are exceptional circumstances. Lead GPs will be responsible for a fair share distribution of admin (be this related to their list or where it is distributed equally amongst those present) and will carry a patient list size pro rata for the number of sessions they are working.

Clinical leadership/quality improvement session

Lead GPs provide senior clinical leadership to their practice team in addition to the provision of clinical sessions. We recognise that developing expertise in clinical and non-clinical areas brings benefit to patients, the practices and NCPC as well as providing job satisfaction.

The Educational Lead GP will play a central role in delivering high-quality patient care whilst helping to train and inspire the next generation of General Practitioners as part of their leadership speciality.

We will work with you to identify realistic goals for the Training Hub, identify the resources needed and provide the support required to implement them.

Whatever the area our Lead GPs lead in, the emphasis will be on improving patient care and contributing to the development of efficient and effective teams, including our established clinical and student teams.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who shares our vision to provide excellent standards of clinical care and leadership in a way which is compassionate, empowering and effective. You will be passionate about bringing out the best in your team and enabling team members to flourish. Delivering high quality holistic patient care will be your priority. You will be excited by the prospect of contributing to the development of the future GP workforce.

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

In accordance with the agreed job plan, the Educational Lead GP will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including:

Surgery consultations, telephone consultations, telephone triage, visiting patients

Participate in the duty doctor rota

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

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

Developing care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE

Ensuring appropriate follow up of patients

Recording clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards

Prescribing generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the CCG and Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance)

Manage clinical administration in a timely fashion. This will include dealing with tasks, laboratory results, dealing with medication queries, processing clinical documentation, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Provide clinical supervision to GP Registrars/F2/Medical Students

Provide clinical supervision to other members of the clinical team eg ANPs/ACPs)/practice nurses. Comply with all the objectives of the QOF targets, CCG initiatives, nationally or locally commissioned enhanced services.

Completion of reports for solicitors, insurance companies and other third parties

Working with and supporting other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care

Take an active role in delivering clinical governance

Promote preventative health care and advice where appropriate

Training Hub Responsibilities

Support and oversee the operational and educational development of the GP Training

Support and supervise trainee doctors working within the practice environment

Manage time efficiently to provide support for all student clinical sessions

Contribute to a unique and evolving training model for the Training Hub

Work collaboratively with experienced clinicians to create an exceptional educational experience

Contribute to innovation in primary care education within West Cumbria

Other responsibilities within the Practice

Work in accordance with NCPC agreed clinical procedures and protocols.

Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards in clinical care.

Role model commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.

Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate. This includes clinical and non-clinical training and events.

Lead practice clinical meetings

Provide information when reasonably requested to ensure that all personnel and other records are accurate

Participate in the GP revalidation and appraisal scheme. Maintain portfolio of continuing professional development activities, attending training as required

Health and Safety

You will be passionate about promoting and maintaining your own and others health, safety and security:

Assist in the promoting and maintaining of their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the NCPC Health and Safety Policy

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

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

Reporting potential risks identified and significant events promptly

Confidentiality

As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. You 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.

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

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.

Equality and Diversity

At NCPC, we support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues:

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.

Personal/Professional Development

As a GP you will maintain continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for appraisal and revalidation are met. This may include training needed for areas of Practice Development

Quality

We strive to maintain the highest standards of quality.

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

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

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients need

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Additional

Should have full GMC registration, be included in GP performers list and have a license to practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Core Values:
• Strong commitment to the vision and values of NCPC
• Genuine interest in and commitment to the needs of the local community
• Commitment to the development of people and services, as required by NCPC
• Qualifications and Training:
• GMC registered with license to practice as a GP
• Evidence of CPD and revaluation
• Knowledge and Experience:
• Working within a multi disciplinary primary care team
• Experience of health promotion
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and implementing change
• Awareness of current primary care initiatives
• Experience of training GPs and medical students
• Leadership experience
• Skills and Aptitudes:
• Excellent patient manner and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good computer skills and the ability to adapt to various GP clinical systems
• Highly effective communication/presentation skills able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of audiences including patients, service users, carers and staff
• Effective report writing skills
• Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
• Effective leadership skills including engaging staff in change
• Ability to influence others
• Personal qualities:
• Passionate about contributing to the training and development of trainee GPs and medical students
• Genuine commitment to improve quality in healthcare provision
• Personal integrity and commitment
• Self-belief, self-awareness and the ability to self-manage
• Politically astute
• Flexible working attitude
• A willingness to travel between NCPC sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Fellview Healthcare - NCPC

Address

Beech House Surgery

St Bridgets Lane

Egremont

Cumbria

CA22 2BD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.fellviewhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:

- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in timely fashion

- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referral 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 counselling 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

- In general the post-holder will be expecting to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

- 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 read-coding patient data

- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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 person 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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and other health and safety and infection control 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 not be limited to)

- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/contractual, professional requirements and good practice guidelines

- Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE_ and ensuring correct use of PPE by other, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients

- Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

- Hand hygiene standards for self and others

- Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure

- Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

- Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person

- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes

- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

- Maintenance of own clean working environment

- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

- 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, sterile, identify 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 responsible managers

- Undertaking periodic infection control training 9minimum twice annually)

- Correct waste and instrument management including handing, segregation, and container use

- Maintenance of sterile environments

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 recognizes 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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

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

- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to other who are undertaking similar work

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 recognize 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 their own work

- Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration and inclusion on the NHS England Performers List; with evidence of up-to-date clinical practice and commitment to high standards of patient care.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Fellview Healthcare - NCPC

Address

Beech House Surgery

St Bridgets Lane

Egremont

Cumbria

CA22 2BD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.fellviewhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)