General Medical Practitioner (ARRS funded)

General Medical Practitioner (ARRS funded)

Are you looking for a new challenge with the opportunity to apply your existing knowledge and skills whilst also developing a new skillset? Do you want to be at the forefront of a new role in the PCN making a difference to patient care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our multi-disciplinary PCN Team due to the changes in the ARRS Scheme. We are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a newly qualified General Practitioner to work alongside our practices and PCN staff.

Our PCN staff currently includes Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers, Health & Wellbeing Coach, Mental Health Practitioner, Paramedics, First Contact Physiotherapist, GPAs, Pharmacist Technicians, PCN Manager/Digital & Transformation Lead, and a Care Home Team.

The successful applicants will work alongside the PCN and practice teams to support healthcare professionals, patients, and carers.

You will be based at:

1. Roslea Surgery
2. Riverside Medical Centre
3. The Ryan Medical Centre
4. New Longton Surgery
5. Lostock Hall Medical Centre
6. Other associated PCN sites (for example Care Homes and Home Visits)

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Main duties of the job

To perform as an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with other healthcare professionals to assess, diagnose, and treat the conditions of patients attending within a primary care setting. Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers, and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence. To be involved in the provision of education and training to GP Registrars and other staff.

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.

The post holder will need to be capable of independent travel across the Preston and South Ribble area. This role is a fixed term position for 12 months, 5 sessions per week to be agreed.

About us

GP practices have been working together in our area for years and formed Bridgedale Primary Care Network (PCN). Bridgedale Primary Care Network is made up of GP registered patient lists for Roslea Surgery, Riverside Medical Centre, and the Ryan Medical Centre. We serve a community of around 30,000 people. We are small enough to provide the personal care valued by our people and large enough to have impact and economies of scale through better collaboration.

As a Primary Care Network we are working hard to deliver on the national NHS England network contract that commenced in July 2019 and continues to March 2024.

This includes the following areas of focus:

1. Anticipatory care
2. Cardiovascular disease prevention and diagnosis
3. Enhancing health in care homes
4. Early diagnosis of cancer
5. Tackling neighbourhood inequalities
6. Structured medication reviews
7. Social prescribing reviews

So as a primary care network, with its member practices working ever closer together, it is important to establish shared core values which not only enable us to adapt, but to do so in the way that we all feel is right for our patients and staff. The outstanding contributions from Ryan, Roslea, and Riverside surgeries in developing Bridgedale's SHINE values is a key milestone and prepares the ground for the future.

Our Vision:

To deliver excellent patient care and support our patients and staff health and wellbeing.

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice/PCN rota, 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 and in care homes, checking and signing/authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion.

1. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation.
2. Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
3. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
4. In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
5. Providing counselling and health education.
6. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
7. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
8. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
9. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
10. The post-holder will be required to visit patients/care homes during surgery time in an emergency if clinically indicated.
11. The post-holder will undertake a fair % of on-call sessions per week as allocated on the PCN rota.
12. The post-holder will undertake a fair share of home visiting sessions per week as allocated.

Create opportunities to address patients' care needs in the most expedient way, taking into account that continuity of care and access to services are often in direct conflict.

Encourage patients to be aware of the service pressures within primary care and to manage their expectations of what we can realistically deliver in a manner that is fair and proportionate for all care priorities.

Make improved use of the telephone and other technologies. Encourage patients to rely on face-to-face consultation only where there is a clinical need to do so.

Communicate and reassure patients of the need to offer alternative care options where appropriate and safe to do so.

To immediately highlight any concerns you may have in respect of safety or quality of patient care to the Clinical Director and Practice Partners.

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/PCN policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Data Protection

As your employer, the Practices/PCN needs to keep information about you for purposes connected with your employment. The sort of information we will hold includes information for payroll purposes, references, contact names, addresses, and records relating to your career with the PCN. These uses are covered by our notification with the Information Commissioners Office under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Managing information

Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation, and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.

Review and process data using accurate coding to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Understand the responsibility of self and others to the practice and primary care trust regarding the Freedom and Information Act.

Make accurate record keeping in EMIS and make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring the consistent and accurate entering of data and use of Read/SNOMED Codes.

Facilitate the use of up-to-date information technology to collate accurate and timely information as and when required by the practice.

Work within the Caldicott and Data Protection principles.

Assist in the development of practice protocols for the practice and clinical protocols for the clinical team.

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

Information Security

Under the provisions of the Data Protection Act, it is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that all personal data relating to patients and members of staff, whether held in manual or electronic format, is always kept secure. Computer passwords must not be shared either between systems or users. The Practices/PCN may monitor email messages, any files stored on the networks or in equipment and usage of Internet, NHS.net and computer systems, irrespective of whether these relate to PCN or personal use.

Access and usage of practices/PCNs computers must be in accordance with the Practices/PCNs Policies. Safe haven procedures are to be used for all electronic transfer of personal data. This is in order to protect the practices, patients and staff, and its reputation and to ensure that it complies with the laws and other guidelines.

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), noting that confirmation on this list is adequate for DBS confirmation
• Evidence of current validation
• Evidence of last appraisal
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Newly Qualified General Practitioner (under 2 years from qualification)
• Not previously been substantively employed at a GP Practice
• Outstanding level of clinical knowledge and skills commensurate with that of an experienced GP
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• 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
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Ability to coordinate and prioritise workloads able to multi-task as well as be self-disciplined and highly motivated.
• Flexibility
• Full UK driving license and use of own car to do home visits.
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of ICB initiatives

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.

Depending on experience, competitive salary, based on experience.