LTC/Planned Care Newly Qualified Salaried General Practitioner (ARRS)

LTC/Planned Care Newly Qualified Salaried General Practitioner (ARRS)

Due to the changes in the ARRS Scheme to introduce General Practitioners, we are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a newly qualified General Practitioner (you must be within 2 years of certificate of completion of training at the start of employment) to work alongside our practices and PCN staff.

Main duties of the job

The GP will work remotely looking at our long-term conditions (LTCs) and planned care patients only. The general practitioner will work independently and with other health care professionals to manage our long-term conditions and planned care patients. They will provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence and are to be professionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct ensuring the safety of patients and quality of their care is primary.

This role is a fixed term position for a minimum of 6 months.

About us

Greenwich Health is committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and delivering services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

The post holder will be employed by Greenwich Health the GP Federation in Greenwich. Greenwich has 7 primary care networks (PCNs) with list sizes of between 30-80,000 patients. The Post holder will work for Greenwich West Primary Care Network.

Job responsibilities

Main duties will include:

1. In accordance with the practice rota, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, signing/authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion for our LTC and planned care patients.
2. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
3. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
4. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
5. In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
6. Providing counselling and health education.
7. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
8. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
9. Collecting data for audit purposes.
10. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
11. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically 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.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

1. Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
2. Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
3. Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
4. Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
• Full GMC registration
• National Performers List registration (England)
• Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU)
• Evidence of current validation
• Evidence of last appraisal
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of continued professional development
• Newly Qualified General Practitioner (with under 2 years from qualification)
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of ICB initiatives
• Outstanding level of clinical knowledge and skills commensurate with that of an experienced GP
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• General understanding of the primary care contract

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise own workload
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations

Other

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours

Skills

• Good interpersonal and customer service skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management - planning and organising
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with clinical risk management

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.