GP Enhanced Access

Job summary

A great long term opportunity for GP’s seeking consistent sessional work in a supportive environment.

Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity, supporting and supervising a dynamic multi-professional team, working from our newly refurbished primary care hub, providing core general practice as part of our enhanced access clinics from 16:00 20:00 on Thursdays and Fridays. We also have availability for Saturday hours, 09:00 to 13:00 and 13:00 to 17:00.

All 15 minute pre-booked appointments using EMIS, providing access to full patient record for each consultation. You will be supported by the Federation GPs (experienced GP Partners) and our operational management team.

Responsibilities

The role will help us to deliver:

Enhanced Access Clinics

• Core general practice sessions (For core general practice sessions, the salaried GP will be involved in a mixture of daily clinics including face to face, telephone, urgent and routine care. They will be provided with allocated time for home visits (low home visit rates and administration)
• Our same day urgent care service and provide clinician supervision

Requirements

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical degree
• GMC full registration
• Medical indemnity
• Active on performers list
• Evidence of professional development
• MRCGP (may not be required for qualification before 2007)
• Postgraduate certificate in medical education for healthcare professionals (role-specific requirement)

Desirable

• Active GP trainer status

Experience

Essential

• Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit

Desirable

• Experience as a GP trainer
• Experience of teaching, assessing and supporting learners in practice
• Experience of leading, motivating and developing others
• Experience of driving quality improvement

Knowledge, understanding and attributes

Essential

• Excellent understanding of role-specific responsibilities (where relevant to role)
• Good working knowledge of computer systems and applications, including MS Office, clinical results and request systems and EMIS
• Good understanding of GP practice and Quality Outcome Framework and the Network DES Impact and Investment Fund processes
• Data gathering and interpretation
• Committed to multi-professional team working
• Demonstrates a willingness to develop
• Clear understanding of Primary Care Services, operations and procedures
• Demonstrates an understanding and insight into current professional issues and developments within the NHS
• Understanding of clinical governance and quality issues
• Ability to travel – car driver with valid licence and business insurance
• Reliable and flexible; willing and able to work on a rota, visit patients and flexible to working hours to meet the needs of the practice clinical commitment
• Problems solving and a solution focused approached
• Ability to work well in stressful situations and remain calm
• Innovative and adaptable, able to embrace, champion and adapt to new ways of delivering primary healthcare
• Assertive
• Commitment to attend forums or training as learning needs are identified

About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our head office sites, and our primary care and unplanned care services. Our services include Surrey Heath Primary Care Network, PRIMACY workflow management and Upper Gordon Road Surgery.

As a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care and unplanned healthcare services in Surrey Heath, and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.