General Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
We are looking for a General Practitioner to join our expanding team and welcome newly qualified and experienced GPs to apply. We are a single practice PCN providing care for patients in our practice area covering Ivybridge and Plympton. We have a large and resilient multidisciplinary team and are looking for the right person to join us. As a practice we have been able to utilise the PCN DES to augment patient care. We have been fortunate to recruit paramedics, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists and mental health workers to make a large impact on addressing GP Workload. We are looking for a GP to join the team at our Plympton site.We are a large partnership which enables a great deal of stability at a time of uncertainty within NHS General Practice. We are looking for the right GP for our practice and are happy to wait for the right candidate. We are open to portfolio working with many of our GPs having other interests but also welcome newly qualified GPs. We are a large training practice and support training at all levels.
Main duties of the job
As quality of life is important, we structure our workload and support each other to manage day to day demand. We have a Duty Day system led by our Allied Healthcare Professionals (Urgent Care Team) with Duty GP support but recognise the need for continuity. We operate own GP lists which are stratified to enable GPs to focus on continuity while our Urgent Care team deal with workload where acute care is favoured.
The post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care as set by the regulatory and standard setting organisations, including but not limited to the points below. In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post holder will undertake a variety of duties.
About us
Beacon Medical Group Practice is a single practice, Primary Care Network (PCN), providing care to 43,000 patients across Plympton and the South Hams. We are a team of Partners, Salaried GPs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, , Practice and specialist Nurses, HCAs, Phlebotomists, First Contact Physios, Social Prescribers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Practitioners and Administrative support staff. Our mission is to give all our patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place. We are a forward thinking partnership always looking for opportunities to improve services for our patients. We have a good reputation for delivering good healthcare, leading at scale and innovating primary care services. This is a really exciting time to be joining us as we diversify our teams, our partnership and services.
If you join our team; you will receive support, opportunities to grow in your role, training, and work with colleagues who care about you.
Job responsibilities
The duties of the post holder are to provide a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include: Face to Face appointments, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, video consultations, prescribing (including checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries), patient test results, QOF reviews, patient medical reports on behalf of the Practice as well as referral letters and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.
As a Salaried GP for Beacon, you would be expected to support the partners of Beacon Medical Group in providing all Primary Medical Services in line with contractual and regulatory frameworks. There is also an expectation that you will support the Board and Beacon Medical Groups vision encompassing the NHS Strategy for Primary Care and diversification of services outside the core business.
As a Group we want to build our reputation. As an integral part of us, it is expected that you will help support and input into the aims of the Group in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the Board.
As a member of our clinical team, it is expected that you maintain and keep good standards of clinical records on SystmOne and abide by Group policy, clinical templates, and protocols at all times. We can provide full training if you feel that you would like more support and will ensure that you are fully up to speed on our processes for record keeping.
You will also be expected to utilise and develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations, child health surveillance, family planning training etc and the group encourages active engagement in developing and delivering new services. This will be subject to presentation of the appropriatecertificates and update of relevant courses, which the Group will fully support if appropriate and in line with the groups aims.
Clinical Duties
The practice operates a total triage system for all Routine and Urgent GP appointments. GP appointment requests are made by phone and online consultation. GPs are supported by a team of allied health professions to provide same day urgent care and some routine care such as care provided by MSK First Contact Physiotherapists. A Duty GP undertakes the role of lead clinician each day and you will be expected to undertake a pro rate share of duty clinics, covering the role of duty GP during practice contracted operating hours.
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including; remote consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, video consultations, face to face appointments, prescribing (including checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries), patient test results, patient medical reports on behalf of the Practice as well as referral letters and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.
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
Clinical duties will include consulting people with acute conditions, on-going chronic conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF and you will be expected to add the relevant coding to any patient file and report any errors. The Group will provide any QOF training on request.
Your clinical duties may also include delivery of enhanced services such as minor ops, implant fitting or clinical research. These clinics will be arranged with the Operational Managers and agreed in advance. Such clinics are available to the full practice population and are not limited to one GPs registered patients.
Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards using IT systems. Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions including EPS.
Prescribe in accordance with locally agreed or nationally agreed prescribing formulary. Work in accordance with all relevant clinical guidelines, pathways, and protocols, including agreed standard data entry processes.
You will undertake home visits to support housebound patients and those who it is determine need a home visit; home visits are allocated on a fair share basis and where possible you will be allocated patients on your registered list, however allocation is not limited to one GPs registered patients.
You will be providing telephone and face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, plus you will take your share of extra consultations where demand is excessive in line with practice operational procedures.
You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your allocated clinical list of patients and also those that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries related to your consultations), in line with good practice as recommended by GMC.
The post holder may have tasks or responsibilities delegated to them, appropriate to their level of competence. They may also be expected to delegate tasks or responsibilities to other staff, as appropriate.
Undertake a rotation of duty cover, online consultation sifting cover, and extended access cover.
QOF clinics are allocated periodically throughout the year and are booked face to face clinics. Amendments to normal programmed activities are made based on the number of QOF appointments required.
Student supervising. Amendments are made to normal activities where supervision of students is required.
Patient List Allocation
The Group operates an own patient list as we strongly believe this enhances patient care. Your patient list will be allocated to you. As a guide the current list size is based on 220 per session.
The Group may seek to increase or reduce that number according to current patient numbers, however we will always use the principles of equality of list sizes and pro rata list size according to that of a current full-time ...
