Salaried GP

BOURN SURGERY

Dr V. Lockyer, Dr F Frame, Dr T Sharp and Dr Basuita

25 Alms Hill, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2SH Tel. 01954 719313

Job Description / Job Plan

Job Title:      Salaried General Practitioner (Part-Time)

Employer:    Bourn Surgery, 25 Alms Hill, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2SH

Reports to:   The Partners (Clinically), The Practice Manager (Administratively)

Hours:           2 sessions per week

About Bourn surgery and team

We are a rural practice, with a patient population of circa 7,500 patients.

We are a highly focused on providing the highest standard of care and service to everyone we support. Delivering an exceptional experience is at the heart of everything we do, and our team works tirelessly to ensure patients receive the very best care.

We are proud of our supportive and collaborative culture, where clinical and administrative teams work closely together towards a shared goal. We genuinely care about one another and recognise that a positive, respectful working environment enables us to provide outstanding service.

This commitment is reflected in our recent patient survey results, with 91% positive feedback, demonstrating the dedication, teamwork, and high standards that define our surgery.

We are a supportive, family-friendly practice that values work-life balance. Flexible session times can be discussed and arranged where possible to accommodate childcare, caring responsibilities, and other personal commitments. We welcome applications from individuals seeking a working pattern that fits around their circumstances.

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.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• The delivery of highly effective medical care to the entitled population
• The provision of services commensurate with the GMS contract
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate, adhering to local and national guidance
• Effective management of long-term conditions
• Clinical duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Processing of administration in a timely manner, including referrals, repeat prescription requests and other associated administrative tasks
• Undertake duty doctor roles
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with good practice, policy and guidance
• Work collaboratively, accepting an equal share of the practice workload
• Adhere to best practice recommended through clinical guidelines and the audit process
• Contribute to the successful implementation of continuous improvement and quality initiatives within the practice
• Accept delegated responsibility for a specific area (or areas) or the QOF
• Attend and contribute effectively to practice meetings as required
• Contribute effective to the development and maintenance of the practice including clinical governance and training
• Ensure compliance with the appraisal process
• Prepare and complete the revalidation process
• Commit to self-learning and instil an ethos of continuing professional development across the practice team
• Support the training of GP trainees
• Support the partners in achieving the strategic aims of the practice
• Encourage collaborative working, liaising with all staff regularly, always promoting a culture of continuous improvement
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the usual duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• Participate in practice audits as requested by the audit lead
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. significant event analysis (SEA)

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

Health and Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Practice’s Health and Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting 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 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 Appraisal and Revalidation are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, 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 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
• Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Hours of Work:

2 sessions per week.

You are required to work 2 sessions per week with an on-call as detailed below, although additional on-call responsibilities will be required to cover colleague’s absence.  Attendance at practice meetings where these fall on your working days is expected. You are not required to attend meetings that occur outside your contracted hours.

There may be times where flexibility of working on other days is required to cover absence or other event. This would be agreed in advance when required.

Day Structure:

Start time – 08:15 for morning meeting.

Morning Surgery: 08:48 start time

14 appointments plus extras as required, with a mid-morning break

Time scheduled after surgery for admin: letters, tasks, signing prescriptions etc.

Debriefing of GP trainees where required.

Between surgeries – Home visits as needed.

Afternoon Surgery: 14:15 start time

14 appointments plus extras as required, with a mid-afternoon break

Time scheduled after surgery for admin – letters, tasks, signing prescriptions etc.

Debriefing of GP trainees where required

On-call duties:

On an on-call day in the morning you will have your own surgery to do, and will be responsible for ensuring that bloods and letters and urgent requests for any GP who is not working that day are dealt with and filed.

Afternoon on-call starts at 13:00 with the expectation that all visit requests should have come in by then and are shared out fairly. In the afternoon you are on-call for the practice, so any queries/requests will come to you first. Visit requests would go to on-call doctor after 13:00.

Holidays:

In general, we aim to only have one doctor away at a time, although this is not a rigid rule and we apply a degree of flexibility. We liaise about holidays/meeting dates etc. so that no-one is left in the lurch. Holidays are on a calendar year basis, and are only exceptionally carried over. You will get the pro-rata holidays for the incomplete first year of your contract. Holidays are six calendar weeks, plus one week’s study leave per year pro rata in the case of part-time employment.

Private Fees:

If you do an insurance report or a private medical, you keep the fee (full, not apportioned.
We often put small fees (like signed certificates) into the practice equipment fund.

Next Steps:

We welcome prospective applicants to get in touch for an informal chat about the role or to arrange a visit and see firsthand what makes our practice such a great place to work.  Please contact Samantha Sales – Practice Manager at samantha.sales1@nhs.net