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St Johns House Medical Centre

Salaried General Practitioner

St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester, Massachusetts, us, 01609

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St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed salaried GP to join our practice team to help shape our future growth. We have strong connections to our PCN, with a great multi-generational patient population.

The Practice

List size of 13,800

An innovative and supportive team, comprising of two partners, six GPs, three trainee ACPs, two practice pharmacists, three nurses, three HCAs, a practice manager, an operations manager, reception managers, receptionists, administrators and secretaries.

The Practice is consistently benchmarked as high performing in ICB and PCN contracts across a range of indicators, including referrals and prescribing.

Bi-weekly MDT with social and community care.

Training practice.

Main duties of the job The Role

We are offering 6 sessions working on Monday, Thursday & Friday.

Interests and personal development strongly encouraged.

Support for being/becoming a trainer for interested candidates.

Mentorship for portfolio roles, including future leadership roles in the wider community/health care

The Team

Young, dynamic clinical team who work extremely well together.

Excellent pharmacy team (two clinical pharmacists and two PMCs) who deal with all medical related queries and offer a duty pharmacist daily alongside pharmacist support provided by Worcester City PCN.

Innovative frailty and care home services with GP leadership.

Strong links with social prescribing, including mental health and well-being support.

Open door/supportive team. There's always someone to ask or just to share a problem or some humour.

Daily paid coffee break and chat.

Fully engaged with PCN.

Opportunities for more collaborative working and new primary care roles.

Emis system, alongside Docman, X-on/Surgery Connect & Accurx.

About us The Benefits

Excellent working environment.

Inhouse CPD in addition to study leave.

Aiming for longer appointments for complex patients to improve care and reduce time pressure on clinicians.

Flexibility for work/life balance, designing work around other commitments.

Sociable team with coffee breaks blocked out in the morning.

Job responsibilities ClinicalResponsibilities:

Thepost-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with thestandards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Anyconcerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon aspracticable.

Inaccordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herselfavailable to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescriptionrequests, and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, (including electronic correspondence), dealingwith patient test results and medical reports, referral letters, paperwork and other correspondence in a timely fashion

Makeprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers

Assessthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems

Screenpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Inconsultation with patients and in line with current practice disease managementprotocols, develop care plans for health

Providecounselling and health education

Admitor discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other careproviders as appropriate

Recordclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templatesas appropriate

Collectand use data for audit purposes

Compileand issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribein accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or nationalguidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate

Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other ResponsibilitiesWithin the Practice:

Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but notlimited to, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety,QOF, CQC

Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice

Contributeto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contributeto the development of computer-based patient records

Contributeto the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data

Attendtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, whereappropriate e.g. CPR training. This includes clinical and non-clinical trainingand events.

Participatein practice meetings when requested

Provideinformation when reasonably requested by the practice manager to ensure thatall personnel and other records are accurate e.g. hepatitis status

Undertakelead responsibility for one or more clinical QOF domains as agreed with the partners/practicemanager

Tomeet all deadlines for audits and written returns so that the practice meetsquality standards and receives the designated funding (QOF, LES, DES etc.)

Person Specification Qualifications

GMC Registered GP

On Performers List

DBS Clearance

Member of approved medical defence organisation

Experience

Sound knowledge of QOF requirements, NICE guidelines etc. and commitment to deliver quality service to patients

Confident in making decisions, managing own workload and delegating appropriately

Good record keeping and communication skills

Special interest in a specific area of primary care

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.

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