Salaried GP

Salary: 10,000 - 11,000 per annum per session

Location: Leighton Road Surgery, Leighton Buzzard

Sessions:flexible, full- and part-time roles considered

We are seeking to recruit a talented and committed General Practitioner who will be able to provide excellent holistic clinical care that meets the needs of patients registered at the surgery. As a senior clinician it is expected that the post holder will work with the lead GP to develop a leadership role within the practice. We will also be looking for someone who can foster excellent links across the whole ELFT organisation and every part of the local health and care system. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate personal values that will make them suited to this job, experience of managing change in challenging environments and an ability to relate to both patients and colleagues with empathy and kindness.

Applications will be via Trac Jobs

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities-

Clinical Responsibilities

• Work autonomously and be accountable for their own professional actions
• Maintain and comply with the requirements of registration with the GMC and maintain registration on a performers list in England
• Ensure they have adequate indemnity insurance in place
• Undertake clinical practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care services
• Engage in all usual administration activity associated with day to day general practice
• Make onward referrals where appropriate
• Undertake home visits as appropriate
• Undertake telephone triage, video and telephone consultations as needed

****Full duties can be found in the Job Description

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Clinical Responsibilities
Essential

• Work autonomously and be accountable for their own professional actions
• Maintain and comply with the requirements of registration with the GMC and maintain registration on a performers list in England
• Ensure they have adequate indemnity insurance in place
• Undertake clinical practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care services
• Engage in all usual administration activity associated with day to day general practice
• Make onward referrals where appropriate
• Undertake home visits as appropriate
• Undertake telephone triage, video and telephone consultations as needed
• Keep up to date with clinical developments, local and national guidance
• As a prescriber engage in all usual activity to ensure safe prescribing
• Maintain high standards of record keeping
• Engage in clinical audit, quality assurance processes and medicines management activity as necessary

Strategic Management and Planning
Essential

• Contribute to the management of transformation within the practice in line with the changing needs of the practice population
• Help the practice to align with the ELFT trust values and developing processes to allow this to happen
• Contribute to developing the role of the practice within the local PCN and also the wider STP including developing professional links with clinical colleagues across the PCN and STP

Staff Management
Essential

• Providing local support to the practice clinical team with respect to training, mentoring and strategic role development
• Linking clinical work in the practice with the wider work in ELFT
• Working as a liaison between the practice team and the primary care directorate management team

Organisational Responsibilities
Essential

• Helping the practice to adopt and maintain relevant trust wide processes such as contributing to and taking part in directorate management team (DMT) meetings, quality assurance group (QAG) meetings, CQC readiness work, health and safety meetings, equality and diversity meetings, maintaining a risk register, developing and nurturing a quality improvement culture and being a leader for change

Patient Services and People Participation
Essential

• Contribute to work that ensures care is delivered by the surgery in line with NHS contractual obligations, working with local and national guidance
• Contribute to people participation strategies to align with the trusts vision for service user and carer involvement
• Contribute to a 'working together group' with service users
• Help to foster a culture that prioritises patient and public involvement in all aspects work at the surgery
• Engage with the trusts Datix program

Information Management and Technology
Essential

• Contribute to IT development with an emphasis on delivery of clinical services
• Keep up to date with and develop skills in primary care IT

Personal Development
Essential

• Take responsibility for personal development with support from the directorate senior management team
• Engage in the annual appraisal process and maintain a personal record of CPD activity
• Adopt an approach of lifelong learning, identify personal development needs and seek out appropriate training opportunities
• Engage in reflective practice and take opportunities to learn from both successes and failures. Develop opportunities to reflect as part of a team, actively encourage and lead this work across the practice clinical team
• Seek support as needed with any problems encountered
• Actively seek out opportunities to develop skills in quality improvement in line with the trusts QI work

Communication
Essential

• Contribute to ways for the practice team to communicate effectively with one another
• Foster an open dialogue across the practice team that allows everyone to feel their voice is heard
• Strive to continuously improve the two way communication with service users and carers and actively encourage people participation regarding clinical services
• Encourage members of your team to create their own networks across the rest of the trust
• Develop strong positive communication links with the local population including voluntary organisations

Leadership
Essential

• In partnership with the lead GP contribute to the leadership of the practice team in work to develop a stable, happy, functional environment that allows the practice to move forwards
• Embody the trust values of 'we care, we respect, we are inclusive'
• Work with the lead GP to actively encourage all members of the practice team to share leadership roles so that they feel empowered and engaged
• Work with the directorate management team to agree priorities for clinical work within the practice
• Contribute to the development of excellent working relationships with organisations across the health and care system
• Share leadership of transformational work across the local primary care network
• Share leadership of work within ELFT to integrate primary care, mental health and community services

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