PCN Salaried GP
Job Description
Job summary
This position is funded through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme ARRS a special government-funded initiative for PCNs Primary Care Networks. The role is designed exclusively for newly qualified GPs, offering a rare opportunity to ease into general practice Lakeside is offering a fixed term contract within core hours with various different pathways.
Hours: 6 sessions per week
Main duties of the job
Why This Role Is Ideal for You
As a newly qualified GP, you will have the opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment.
You will be responsible for providing comprehensive medical care to our patients including diagnosis, treatment and education of health.
You will be part of a dynamic team, in forward-thinking, collaborative practices and gain experience that will prepare you for your first substantive post.
You will have opportunity to focus on geriatric care if this is an area of interest.
You will have mentorship from experienced GPs and access to Lakesides educational opportunities
This is an easier, supportive and structured first step into general practice, ideal for building confidence, skills, and connections within a leading, innovative practice.
Here is what you can expect working at Lakeside Healthcare Four Counties PCN
Large Nursing and HCA team supporting and delivering chronic disease and treatment room services
Friendly team of Partners and Salaried GPs, meaning support is always available
Long established training practices, providing opportunities for career development
Pharmacist team supporting medication reviews, chronic disease and clinical correspondence
Large multi-disciplinary team including Social Prescriber Link Workers, Care Co-ordinators and Safeguarding specialists
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.
Lakeside Healthcare Four Counties PCN has a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, patient focussed GP to join our friendly, hardworking team. If you share our values of Caring, Teamwork, Respect and Quality we would love to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
The ARRS GP will be responsible for delivering the full range of primary care services as part of the practice ensuring the highest standards of care for the differing needs of our patient population.
The ARRS GP will work closely with the practices multi-disciplinary team of other GPs, nurses and nonclinical staff to provide a high quality and accessible service to 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, telephoneconsultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescription sand dealing with queries, paperwork, referrals 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.
In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health.
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. EPS is now implemented at the Practice.
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.
Complete care plans required for local enhanced services.
Participate in Enhanced Services work required within the practice.
Training and Education
Prepare for and complete the annual external appraisal process.
Prepare for and complete the revalidation process.
Undertake training that meets personal, mandatory and practice learning needs including recording of learning, reflection, complaints, information governance etc.
Participate in and contribute to learning activities such as significant event reviews, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations.
Contribute to delivering teaching for doctors in training in the practice and other health professionals in training.
Other responsibilities with the Practice:
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.
Contribute to evaluation audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
Contribute to the development of computer based patient records.
Contribute to the summarising of patient records and accurate Read-Coding of 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. ...
