Salaried GP
Cambridge City 4 Primary Care Network Ltd.
NQGP
Cambridge City 4 Primary Care Network Limited offers an exciting opportunity to join our established multidisciplinary team supporting our six Partner Practices in the wonderful city of Cambridge.
Our PCN and Practice teams have a positive and supportive working relationship and this role is an opportunity to enhance our PCN services further. Due to the changes in the ARRS scheme to introduce General Practitioners we are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a newly qualified GP to work alongside our PCN and Practice teams. All of our practices are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission and 5 of our Practices are training practices.
Job summary
As a newly qualified GP within 2 years of qualification, you will undertake a variety of duties governed by the GMS contract to include:
- In person consultations
- Telephone consultations
- Visiting patients at home and in nursing homes
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
- Dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required
- All aspects of clinical administration
Main duties of the job
Take accountability for the highest standards and professional decision making in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers across the practices / PCN.
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.
Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE.
Ensure appropriate follow up of patients.
Record clear and immediate consultation notes to agreed standards within clinical systems.
Actively participate in clinical audits, learning events and practice meetings, within a culture of continuous improvement.
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
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 provide support for other members of the primary health care team & Practices / PCN.
Play a lead role in the practice achieving agreed and other key performance indicator targets as shaped by the Clinical Directors.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Proven ability to observe strict confidentiality
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to actively listen and empathise
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Competent time management and self-organisational skills
- Adaptable and forward looking with a ‘solutions focused’ approach to problem solving
- A proven commitment to professional development
- Computer literate
Experience
Essential
- Newly qualified GP within 2 years of qualification
- Experience in the following:
- In person consultations
- Telephone consultations
- Visiting patients at home and in nursing homes
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
- Dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required
- All aspects of clinical administration
Qualifications
Essential
- The applicant must be a qualified GP with full GMC registration licence to practice
- The applicant must be active on a performers list and have a UK drivers licence
Desirable
- Experience of working within a GP practice using SystmOne and EMIS
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name – Cambridge City 4 PCN Limited
Contact – Jenny Wyllie, PCN Manager. Jenny.Wyllie1@nhs.net
Cambridge City 4 Primary Care Network Ltd,
Cambridge
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