Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached job description.

To work as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the provision of medical services to the practice population, delivering an excellent standard of clinical care whilst complying with the contract. Furthermore, the post holder will adhere to the GMC standards for good medical practice, contributing to the effective management of the practice, leading by example, maintaining a positive, collaborative working relationship with the multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully qualified GP with current General Medical Council (GMC) registration and license to practice
• Strong commitment to patient-centred care and clinical excellence
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with patients, colleagues and wider healthcare teams

Desirable

• Local Knowledge & Enhanced Skills
• Familiarity with local referral pathways, community services and prescribing formularies
• Experience managing digital workflows efficiently including processing pathology results, clinical correspondence and repeat prescriptions

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

The Waterloo Practice

Address

Waterloo Health Centre

Wakefield Road, Waterloo,

Huddersfield

HD5 9XP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://thewaterloopractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)

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 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 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 QoF and other purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with practice and PCO (primary care organisation) guidelines.
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care. There will be expectation for the post holder to engage with non direct clinical activities such as clinical lead in clinical domain
• Participate in clinical meetings and non-patient facing clinical management

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg 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 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, to include:

• 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.

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-judgmental 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 others who are undertaking similar work

• 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.

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.
• Participate in clinical meetings and non-patient facing clinical management

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Qualifications
• Essential
• Qualified GP
• Current GMC Registration
• .Current registration with GP performers list
• Appropriate representation with a recognised Medical Defence Organisation.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• Essential
• Qualified GP
• Current GMC Registration
• .Current registration with GP performers list
• Appropriate representation with a recognised Medical Defence Organisation.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Essential
• Qualified GP
• Current GMC Registration
• .Current registration with GP performers list
• Appropriate representation with a recognised Medical Defence Organisation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work with limited supervision.
• Willingness to contribute to and participate in a peer support group.
• Good IT skills and familiarity with primary care clinical systems.

Desirable

• Desirable
• Active or recent clinical practice to demonstrate the current challenges in primary care
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
• IT skills:
• - Understanding of EMIS system, Docman 10 etc.,
• - Effective use of information and communication technology
• Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
• Experience of managing and motivating others

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

Waterloo Health Centre

Address

114-118 Lower Marsh

London

SE1 7AE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://www.waterloohealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)