Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary: The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical Responsibilities:

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, e- consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred 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 expected 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.

Contributing to development of practice and local Primary Care Network.

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

Contributing to the teaching and training of undergraduate medical students and GP Trainees attached to the practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised medical degree & Certificate of Completion of Training for GP (CCT).
• MRCGP (if trained prior to nMRCGP).
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
• Full driving licence.
• English - ability to communicate well, both written and spoken.
• System 1 experience.
• Previous Practice experience.
• Wide range of appropriate experience for a GP.
• Computer literate: GP record systems, MS Word etc, e-mail etc.
• Consulting skills - patient centred, reflective.
• Good communication skills: inter and intra-professional, Doctor-patient.
• Good time management.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
• No criminal record.
• Motivated, interested, enthusiastic, keen to learn.
• Honest, trustworthy, reliable.
• Adaptable, flexible, open-minded.
• Co-operative.
• Self aware, insightful.
• Team player.
• Polite, professional appearance.
• Stress coping mechanisms.
• Sense of humour.

Desirable

• Other medical postgraduate qualifications.
• Other qualifications.
• Life experience outside of medicine.
• Teaching experience or interest.
• Research experience or interest.
• Other specialist skills / medical interest.
• Management skills.
• South Asian language skills incl. Urdu.
• Other language skills.
• Ability to analyse changes in primary care.
• Bradford connection - home or training.
• Activities and interests outside medicine.

Experience

Essential

• Fully compliant with GP Annual Appraisal and Revalidation.

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

HORTON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE

Address

99 Horton Park Avenue

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD7 3EG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.horton-park.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Interact with patients to provide and process information in response to enquiries, concerns and requests about NHS/practice services.
• To ensure that all patients have a positive experience.
• To work as part of the Patient Services Team in a professional manner to provide high quality service, administration and support services to all clients, visitors, GPs and Allied Health Professionals.
• To follow all standard operating procedures and policies to ensure working in an efficient and courteous manner at all times.
• To provide a professional call handling service and associated administration duties.
• To embed and sustain an ethos of care navigation throughout the team; providing advice and guidance and signposting patients to the most appropriate clinician/service.
• To record all essential information accurately.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• -GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths (or equivalent).
• -A minimum of 1 year experience with SystmOne.
• -Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• -Competent in the use of IT.
• -Ability to deal confidently and courteously with people both in person and over the telephone.
• -Ability to work flexibly as a team member.
• -Able to work on own initiative and prioritise workload.
• -Empathetic, honest & caring.
• -Able to work under pressure.

Desirable

• Experience in a patient facing/customer service role

Experience

Essential

• -1 Year minimum experience of working with SystmOne
• -1 Year minimum experience of working in a customer service role

Desirable

• -Experience of working in a GP practice

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.

Employer details

Employer name

HORTON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE

Address

99 Horton Park Avenue

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD7 3EG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.horton-park.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)