Salaried GP

Long Lane Surgery - The closing date is 11 March 2022

Job summary

Here at Long Lane Surgery, Coalville, we value innovation, team working, excellent patient care and a healthy work-life balance.

We train med students and are involved in research projects.

We also work with our community having provided allotments for the wellbeing of our patients. For us care begins in practice but extends into the community.

We value team work so no one is left on their own. Busy day, no problem your colleagues will be there to help you.

We encourage all clinicians to have a coffee break in the morning to share ideas, experiences and just have some down time.

We have 1400 patients and are active members of our PCN helping to create a great care structure for patients across the PCN.

• Able to use SystemOne.
• Experience of AccuRx.
• Experience with Engage Consult.
• Tel cons
• F2F appointments
• Providing prescriptions and prescribing within practice protocols.
• Completing your own admin tasks efficiently.
• Creating care plans.
• Comfortable and confident with telephone triage.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Commitment to education and training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team.
• Excellent keyboard and computer skills.
• Ability to adhere to policies, procedures and protocols

About us

The Long Lane team are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.

The medical team at long lane surgery are all highly experienced and are dedicated to providing all patients with the best possible care. We also have our own reception, administration and practice management teams to ensure we can provide the best service possible.

• 9 Doctors and 6 Advanced Nurse Practitioners
• 16 Reception and Administration staff
• Dedicated Business and Reception Managers

Our team offer a range of specialist services at the surgery, including Non Scalpel Vasectomies and Hand clinics.

Job description

The post-holder will manage 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.

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Mix of tele cons and F2F Clinics
• Share of on call
• Opportunity to be involved with teaching.
• Opportunity to be involved with injections and minor surgery.
• 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 computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible)
• Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care
• Understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

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
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• 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 when recognised
• 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, including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Equality and diversity: 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.
• Personal/professional development: In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
• Quality: 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
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. Communication: The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A Medical Practitioner whose name is on the General Practitioner Register. Qualified General Practitioner (Completed certificate of completion of training- CCT). Currently on a PCT performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register. DBS Clearance. Evidence of CPD activities. Have had an annual NHS appraisal. Recent experience of working in General practice in the UK. Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF). Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care. Understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality.

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