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Salaried GP Leeds

4 days ago

Morley

South Queen Street Medical Centre in Morley, Leeds have an exciting opportunity for a GP to join our friendly and supportive practice team, working 2-4 sessions per week on a fixed term basis. We are a practice based in Morley with excellent transport links into Leeds and further af via the nearby M62. We are a PMS practice of 5000 patients. We are looking for a confident and independent GP who is committed, enthusiastic and passionate about making a difference in primary care. The post-holder will provide personal medical services, managing a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. We have a varied and passionate clinical team consisting of , 3 salaried GP's , 1 senior Partner , 1 ANP , 1 Practice Pharmacist , 1 Practice nurse and 2 HCA's who work alongside our excellent administration team. We are part of the Morley & District Primary Care Network and are also a training practice for Foundation Doctors. • In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion, • 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, • Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, • 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 electronic & computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, • Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate, • The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care., • Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies, • A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice, • Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation, • Read-coding patient data, • Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, • 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. 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. 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, • Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, • Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal, • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management, • Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately, • Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers, • Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually), • Correct waste and instrument management, • Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include: • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation, • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues, • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights., • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will: • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk, • Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision, • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs, • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication team and will strive to: • Communicate effectively with patients, carers and team members Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly. • Medical practitioner whose name is included in the General MC Register, • Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983, • Qualified GP with Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), • Currently on National Performers List, • Has DBS clearance Has had an annual NHS appraisal where applicable, • Has been revalidated as required, • Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields, • MRCGP, • DCHDRCOG, • RCGP, • Evidence of CPD activities, • Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK, • Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment, • Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), • Evidence of independent working in General Practice, • Experience of supporting service change, • Evidence of participation in QOF, • Evidence in participation in Audit, • Understand the health and social needs of the local patient population, • Commitment to personal and professional development, • Commitment to education and training, • Excellent verbal and written communication, • Excellent record keeping skills, • Understanding the current issues and challenges facing primary care, • Confident in using IT (word/excel/outlook) & clinical systems, • Excellent time management, • Good analytical skills, • National NHS guidance and structure, • Familiar with the clinical system , SystmOne 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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