GP Salaried

Job summary

Billingshurst Surgery are looking for a reliable, enthusiastic and motivated team player to come and join our friendly team. We are committed to providing our patient population with excellent healthcare. We place high value in our staff and the wellbeing of staff is important to us.

The post-holder will provide general medical services managing 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.

Informal visits are encouraged.

Responsibilities

Purpose of the role

To manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in the Quality and Outcomes Framework, treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse, patient list.

Closely supported by Billingshurst clinical and management teams the post holder will act as one of the GPs within the practice working alongside the practice. The role will be at the forefront of delivering an innovative model of primary care service provision.

Clinical responsibilities

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake clinical sessions. A clinical session is normally four hours 10 minutes in duration and will comprise of telephone and face-to-face consultations. Duty/on-call doctor days may vary in structure. Daily duties may also include home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, actioning test results and letters, medical reports and examinations (e.g. Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice. The above duties should be performed in a timely manner using Billingshurst Medical protocols.

You will be required to:

• Act upon most alerts (e.g. QOF) and reminders during a routine consultation
• Provide all GP services required as part of the GMS contract held between Billingshurst Surgery and the Integrated Care Board (ICB) including all core services such as Child Health Surveillance
• Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and referral where appropriate
• Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice
• Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff
• Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992)
• Adhere to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Record clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collect data for audit purposes
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• 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 with the Practice

• Engaging in appropriate lifelong educational and audit activity in order to maintain clinical competence and performance, including the completion of objectives agreed by yourself and the practice, in an annual personal development plan. Your personal development plan must be in line with the practice development plan. Keeping your mandatory training up to date
• Actively participating in the training and development of nurses, medical students and GP trainees in the practice
• Supporting the practice staff and responding to requests for advice and assistance from the practice reception, dispensary, secretarial and nursing staff
• Support and supervision of registrars wherever applicable
• Attend prescribing, palliative care, clinical and practice meetings
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF assessment of the Practice
• Meet all tight timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g. quarterly enhanced services returns, annual QOF audit etc.)

General duties

The above responsibilities will be undertaken upholding the following:

1. To be available to take over the responsibility of patient care from the out of hours service on a working day or where applicable maintain responsibility till the appropriate time when the out of hours service takes over care in the evening. This will involve working till 18.30 on a shared rota basis
2. To continue to work until all clinical tasks have been completed. To make arrangements with others to cover when planning to leave before the end of the session
3. To maintain the financial security of the organisation by ensuring accurate and efficient responses to income generation such as reports, dispensed prescriptions, private forms etc.
4. At all times to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care and the development of a team spirit. 360 degree feedback is used to assess clinicians and you will be required to participate in this

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 Company as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Data Protection

Billingshurst Surgery is registered under the Data Protection Act 2018. You must not at any time use the personal data held by the organisation for a purpose not described in the Register entry or disclose such data to a third party. If you are in any doubt regarding what you should or should not do in connection with the Data Protection Act then you must contact your line manager or appropriate senior lead at the time.

Flexibility

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post-holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude towards the duties outlined which may be subject to amendment at any time in consultation with the post-holder and in line with the needs of the organisation.

The post holder may be required to fulfil other duties, as agreed with the practice manager to meet the needs of the organisation.

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 & 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

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 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 at practice level and an external annual NHS GP appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of their own personal and/or professional development. Where the payment for the NHS GP appraisal is reimbursed directly to the practice by the ICB over and beyond the standard contract, this will be paid over to the post holder. Where there is no separate and distinct payment by the ICB, Billingshurst surgery is under no obligation to make a separate payment. Any time preparing for the appraisal or conducting the appraisal may be taken from the employees annual study leave entitlement, with prior agreement

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

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Participate in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit and the Quality and Outcomes Framework
• Alert other team members to issues of clinical governance issues, quality and risk; participate in significant event analysis reviews
• 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. He/she will also contribute to the overall team-working of the practice putting the needs of the practice first
• Participate and contribute to the practice achieving other quality standards such as ISO 9001, Investors in People, RCGP Quality Practice award

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

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

Requirements

• You must be a registered GP with the GMC
• You must possess the right to work in the UK and be included on the NHS Performers list

About us

Billingshurst Surgery is based in a semi-rural West Sussex commuter village and is well respected locally. We are a busy, high achieving dispensing practice with nearly 14,000 patients and offer an organised and supportive work environment.

We are a friendly organisation committed to providing an open, friendly and supportive environment where all staff are encouraged to share ideas and contribute to continuously improving the service we offer.