Vacancy: Salaried General Practitioner – Maternity Cover

Responsible to: 

• Partners for clinical matters / Practice or Assistant Manager for all other matters

Accountable to:

• Practice Partnership

Hours:

• 6 sessions per week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Duration:

• Minimum 3 months, starting mid to late October 2024

Salary:

• Available upon application

Thornhills Medical Practice is seeking to recruit a Salaried GP to cover maternity leave for one of our Assistant GPs. This is a fixed term post for a minimum of three months with an anticipated start date of mid to late October 2024.

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. Duties will include but are not limited to, surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, participation in duty doctor rota.

Thornhills is a highly regarded, 7 partner training practice with a happy established workforce. We prioritise high quality patient care and teamwork, whilst ensuring manageable workloads and offering flexible working patterns, personal development and education.

Key Benefits

• We welcome an innovative approach to the working day. 
• Indemnity bolt on paid in addition to salary.
• 6 weeks annual leave pro rata and 1 week study leave pro rata
• Favourable contract in line with BMA model contract for GMS Practices
• Daily team catch-ups over coffee and end of the week social. 
• Modern purpose-built premises with free parking
• Support for opportunities regarding education, personal development, and specialist interests
• Extensive additional clinical workload support from, Paramedic Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCA’s, Clinical Administrators
• PCN workforce includes pharmacy team, physiotherapist first contact practitioners, Learning Disability Care Coordinators, Child Health and Wellbeing Navigator, Dementia Care coordinator, Health Inequalities Care Coordinator, Social Prescriber and paramedic-led clinical assessment team. 
• EMIS clinical system optimised and integrated with dictation software

Practice Information

• GMS 11 doctor training practice. ST3, ST2 and medical students.
• 14,800 patients in compact semi-rural area
• Established, stable, cohesive partnership
• Consistently praised, well-organised and effective management team
• PCN lead practice. Successful and innovative PCN, with excellent relationships between our 5 member practices
• Track record of continual innovation in service design
• Wide range of enhanced services, high QOF achievement and rated as “good” across all areas by CQC
• Well-engaged with other organisations in our healthcare landscape

For informal enquiries or to apply with your CV and covering letter please contact Julie Gorner or Karen Barker via email or 01732 849980.

Job Summary

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. Duties will include but are not limited to, surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, participation in duty doctor rota.

Clinical Responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Salaried GP.  There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• The post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required.
• Participation in duty doctor rota.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Ensure appropriate follow up of patients 
• Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards 
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible
• Providing counselling and health education
• Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance
• Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care 
• Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council, Department of Health, local governing bodies and CQC.
• Play a role in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key performance indicator targets. 
• Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, e.g. a QOF area or an Enhanced Service. 
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care. 

Other Responsibilities within the Practice

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF and other targets
• 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 Read-Coding patient data
• Attend training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Other duties or activities as agreed by the partners

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 will recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognize people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• 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

Confidentiality

The post-holder will 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.

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.

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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include: 

• Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks 
• Make effective use of training to update knowledge and skills 
• Use appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards 
• Report potential risks identified 

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 recognizes 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

The post-holder will maintain continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for appraisal and revalidation are met. This may include training needed for areas of Practice Development.

Person Specification

	Essential	Desirable
Qualifications	Qualified GP Current GMC full registration Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent Membership of recognised defence union MRCGP Currently on a performers list Never been removed from a performers list for a detrimental reason Copy of last DBS disclosure (a new DBS will be carried out if selected for recruitment) A demonstrable commitment to professional development Understands the importance of evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness Evidence of recent self-directed learning or development DRCOG DFP DCH IUD fitting Implanon fitting and removal Recognised qualifications for GP registrar training Knowledge of the current issues facing primary care and the wider NHS	Evidence of recent self-directed learning or development DRCOG DFP DCH IUD fitting Implanon fitting and removal Recognised qualifications for GP registrar training Knowledge of the current issues facing primary care and the wider NHS
Experience	Experience of Microsoft Office applications Experience of GP Clinical IT systems	EMIS experience Docman experience
Skills	Knowledge/ Skills/ Competencies Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter personal skills Ability to listen and empathise Good time management Excellent keyboard and computer skills Problem solving and a 'solutions focused' approach Understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues as well as health and social policy Sound clinical skills Ability and success in the implementation of change and/or service development within an organisation	Ability and success in the implementation of change and/or service development within an organisation
Personal Qualities	Initiative and drive Pleasant and articulate Able to work under pressure Self-motivated and positive Empathetic, honest, caring Adaptable and forward looking Enthusiastic and energetic Diplomatic and considered Hard working, willing and flexible Observance of strict confidentiality Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense.
Other requirements	Flexibility of working hours to meet the needs of the practice’s clinical commitment Car driver