Salaried GP/GP Partner

The closing date is 30 September 2022.

Job summary

The GP Partner is responsible for operational and strategic decision-making and management and providing medical care and services to the practice population, managing a clinical caseload and dealing with a diverse range of health needs.

This will include, but is not limited to, leadership and recruitment, development of services, patient consultations, administration, complying with the practice’s contracts type (PMS), education and training delivery, and private contracts.

Main duties of the job

Caring for patients
Communication with patients
Delivering high-quality services
Management and leadership
Practice-related duties
Personal and professional development
Maintaining confidentiality
Equality and diversity

About us

We are looking for an ambitious, forward-thinking GP who is looking for a new challenge in Salisbury! We have an excellent multi-disciplinary team.

You may already be an experienced GP, or new into Primary Care – either way if you are passionate about patient care, you will find yourself integrating into our Practice quickly and feeling part of our warm, and welcoming team.

We are an innovative dispensing practice based over two sites, one in the medieval cathedral city of Salisbury and the other co-located with the Ministry of Defence in Larkhill. Our list size is 10,599, and with the fantastic service we offer our patient, this number is ever increasing. We currently have three dedicated Partners made up of a GP Partner, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Partner and a Pharmacist Partner.

We believe our colleagues are the number one asset to the practice. For this reason, we support all our staff to thrive. With regular learning and development opportunities, peer to peer and group supervision sessions and regular team building activities.

We work closely with our PCN, to build and deliver innovative services close to patients’ homes. We have a dedicated home visiting team which means home visits by GPs are minimal.

We also run Intermediate Care Beds at 2 care homes in Salisbury. This service is shared across the GP’s and the Home Visiting Team.

Job description

Responsibilities

Caring for patients:

Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
Conduct patient consultations during the practice’s clinical appointment hours
Undertake duty and out-of-hours consultations as required, on a rota basis
Triage patients presenting to the practice in person and by telephone.
Conduct telephone consultations and home visits as appropriate
Check and sign repeat prescription requests
Check, manage and process patient test results
Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate
Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
Carry out patient testing and screening as required
Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients’ health needs
Develop and implement practice guidelines, policies, and procedures

Communication with patients:

Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news
Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients’ and carers’ level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method
Anticipate and overcome barriers to communication, seeking support from other staff members where necessary
Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment

Delivering high-quality services:

Provide services to the practice’s patient population to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct
Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking, and evaluation
Lead and undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
Lead and participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care
Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy
Work within the practice’s legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients

Key responsibilities – non-clinical

Management and leadership:

Manage workload, staff availability and cover, in collaboration with fellow Partners
Make, implement, and adhere to decisions, in collaboration with fellow Partners, including following agreed processes to raise concerns
Develop and nurture professional and collaborative working relationships with all staff and external stakeholders
Ensure the practice and all staff follow best practice, as set out in clinical guidelines, and identified through audits
Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and develop new ones, both in the practice and those involving external agencies and stakeholders
Lead on clinical and practice management, including delegating responsibility as appropriate
Develop and maintain systems to ensure the efficient running of the practice, such as those to manage staff training, performance, clinical governance, finance, IT, complaints and equality and diversity
Action and refer concerns and issues as appropriate

Practice-related duties:

Process medical reports, referrals, and correspondence
Record and collect data for audit purposes
Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients
Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF
Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catchups and contact
Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings
Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders
Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate

Personal and professional development:

Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
Prepare for and complete revalidation process
Act as a mentor and positive role model to all members of staff, both clinical and non-clinical sharing information and good practice
Prioritise own workload and collaborate with others to delegate and prioritise team and practice workload
Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints, and feedback
Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
Lead and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations, etc
Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students

Other important aspects of the role

Maintaining confidentiality

The GP Partner will, as an integral part of and while carrying out his/her role, have access to confidential and sometimes sensitive information relating to patients, carers, and family members, as well as similar information about colleagues. The GP Partner will also have access to confidential commercial information about the practice and its business.

All such information, in whatever format and howsoever made available, must be treated with the strictest confidence. All such information held both within and outside of the practice will be shared only as necessary, and in accordance with the practice’s confidentiality/data-sharing policies, and in line with data protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act.

Equality and diversity

The GP Partner will comply with the practice’s own equality and diversity policy, and legislation relating to equality and diversity, including (but not limited to):

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified General Practitioner
GMC registered

Desirable

Experience of System One Clinical system
Working in General Practice

To apply, please upload your CV.