Salaried General Practitioner

Job summary

Park Lane Practice Swindon are seeking a forward thinking
innovative GP or GPs to join our practice in an exciting time of working with
Primary Care Network within the Brunel Health Group. We are looking for at
least 6-8 sessions and would consider a combination of GPs to cover these
sessions i.e. 2 GPs undertaking 4 sessions each or any other combination would
happily be considered. This opportunity is being offered on a permanent
basis. We are a friendly, proactive & dynamic practice looking to develop
and explore new opportunities as they present themselves. Current
initiatives the practice are working with are Primary Care Network workforce
team of physiotherapists, clinical pharmacists

Main duties of the job

Our Contract for salaried doctors includes a
defined workload with a fixed number of patient contacts, no extended hours and
minimal paperwork.

We are keen to hear from doctors who want to be
part of a happy, positive, family friendly team.

The practice welcomes both
newly qualified GPs and those looking to further their career in a
professional, supportive environment.

About us

The practice profile is: Registered patients 7400. GP Partner, Salaried GPs, FCP, Nurse Team, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Tech , GP Assistant .

Training Practice

Park Lane Practice TIER 2 registered practice

CQC- Good Feb 2023

QOF- High Achievement

SystmOne Clinical system

For more information, or to arrange
an informal visit to the practice, please contact Dr Humaira Ramzan at parklane.manager@nhs.net

Informal enquiries and practice
visits welcome.

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: SALARIED
GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE SENIOR
PARTNER (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE & BUSINESS MANAGER (Administratively)

HOURS: TBC

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 themselves 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
• Developing
care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with
current practice disease management protocols
• 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
• 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
implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and
others 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 will 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 others,
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
correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately
when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and
general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying 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 (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management,
including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding
and promoting the welfare of children.

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 recognises the importance of peoples rights, …