General Practitioner Job at Warrington Full Time

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide Personal Medical Services
   to acceptable clinical standards to patients, both in surgery and on home
   visits.
2. Respond to medical problems
   presented by patients on the medical list, including history taking,
   examination, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, referral where
   appropriate and adequate documentation with READ coding onto the GP
   Computer system. (TPP/S1)
3. Provide appropriate health
   promotion and preventative health care and advice to the Practice patients
   attending the Practice within the context of primary health care.
4. Attend all team meetings and other
   meetings as may be necessary for PMS duties.
5. Carry out clinically related
   administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of personal
   medical services.
6. Provide free certification in line
   with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
7. Provide emergency cover for absent
   colleagues from time to time as detailed.
8. Maintain patients clinical records
   in line with the electronic patient record system.

Duties within
Practice:

1. You would be expected to perform
   two surgeries of up to 2.5-3 hours duration in a day with combination of face to face and video/telephone appointments
2. You would require to be available
   to the Practice between the core hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs.
3. Participate in the Duty Dr rota, undertaking Total Triage with the support of the full clinical team.
4. If Duty Dr, to triage home visits(usually then directed to our PCN’s Acute Visiting Service) but with some GP visits when required and
   undertake the same
5. Sign all relevant prescriptions and
   deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
6. Deal with all clinical roles within
   the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
7. Participation in the Practice
   on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
8. Take responsibility of acquiring
   the Practices QUOF, Enhanced Services and any other contractual targets
9. Participate in the Enhanced Access scheme (a requirement to undertake the Wednesday session from 630pm-8pm). Additional sessions can be available for additional remuneration

Professional Practice

1. Ensure services are provided to a
   high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the
   identified needs of service users.
2. Comply with all clinical governance
   requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and
   organisational performance, including appraisal.
3. Continually update personal
   professional knowledge and competence by undergoing continuing
   professional development and lifelong learning, and mentoring
4. In collaboration with members of
   the team cascade acquired knowledge, learning and expertise in order to
   enhance skills and competencies of other clinicians.

Professional Leadership

1. Identify best practice and
   disseminate accordingly, for exampled through benchmarking, clinical
   guidelines and research evidence.
2. Develop new roles and responsibilities
   when then need arises and reflect and respond to the demands of the
   service.
3. Liaise with relevant agencies and
   the local community to promote knowledge and awareness of the services
   provided
4. Adopt a positive approach to change
   and provide a clinical perspective on service development and
   configuration issues. In addition,
   generate proposals for the continuous development of the service.

Education Training and
Development

1. As required provide supervision and
   mentoring opportunities for staff together with the Practice Manager and
   other Clinical staff.
2. Develop new roles and
   responsibilities when the need arises which reflect and respond to the
   demands of the service.
3. Identify ways of engaging service
   users in service developments.
   Develop strategies to meet objectives as they relate to the
   services provided by the practice, together with the Principal and the
   Practice Manager.
4. Develop links with educational
   providers so as to provide a learning environment.

Service Development Linked to
Research and Evaluation

1. In collaboration with key
   stakeholders participate in evaluation of the service through a process of
   audit and research activity.
   Participate in the production of regular performance monitoring
   reports as required.
2. Develop and implement policies and
   procedures, clinical guidelines and protocols as required
3. Develop and maintain effective
   working relationships across the broad spectrum of health and social care
   providers, service users and voluntary agencies.
4. Utilising the latest evidence,
   shape and organise services to reflect the needs of service users and in
   response to local and national priorities and policy directives.

Human Resources

1. Promote equality of opportunity in
   accordance with the aims and objectives of the PMS Contractual Objectives
   and NHS policy.
2. To comply with Practice and NHS
   policies and guidelines.
3. to comply with the Practices
   computer usage policy

Health and
Safety Responsibilities

1. Provide safe and well-maintained
   equipment. This provision must also
   ensure that safe systems of work are in place.
2. Make arrangements for the safe
   handling, storage and transportation of any articles or substances that
   are being used on the premises.
3. Provide and distribute any relevant
   information to all staff on
   mattes affecting their Health and Safety, in addition, provide adequate
   supervision and training for persons employed by the Practice.
4. Maintain a safe place to work with
   the provision for safe access to and from premises at all times.

General Duty

1. No person shall intentionally or
   recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of
   health, Safety or Welfare.

This job
description is not exhaustive and will be subjective to amendments and changes
as required by the service in consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified General Practitioner
• Inclusion on NHS England’s Performers List

Desirable

• MRCGP
• Interested in GP Training

Experience

Essential

• Experience working within UK general practice
• Primary care experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Teamwork

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice

Address

Medi Centre

Tanners Lane

Warrington

WA2 7NJ

United Kingdom

Employer’s website

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