Job summary
Railway Medical Group has an exciting opportunity to join our highly regarded Northumberland-based training practice as a salaried GP. 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.

We are offering 1-2 sessions per week over 2 days which will be a Monday & Friday Evening 5pm - 8pm.

The Benefits

• A salary starting of £12,880.00 per year x 1 session £25,760.00 per year x 2 sessions.
• 6 weeks annual leave plus 1 week study leave
• NHS pension
• Recognition of previous NHS years of service as continuous, for the purposes of maternity and sick pay entitlement

Main duties of the job

• Your clinics will have 14 appointment's 12 of which will be face-to-face patient contacts plus 2 telephone patient contacts.
• Reduced admin so you can concentrate on clinical responsibilities. Letters are pre-screened and coded, blood test results are pre-screened and filtered
• Our medicines management team and strong reception and admin teams to support you
• Our full support to specialise in a subject of interest to you

About us
Railway Medical Group is a large, busy teaching practice with a patient list of 27,100. We have built a multi-disciplinary team of GP Partners & Salaried GPs, Paramedics, ANPs, CPNs, Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Social Prescribers. Our patient-facing teams are fully supported by our administrative and management teams. Operating across four sites, our main site is purpose-built and houses all our GPs and admin support staff.

We are an innovative practice; investing in and improving our Patient Navigation systems, offering e-Consults and appointments with ANPs, Pharmacists and Social Prescribers where appropriate, reducing the pressure on our GP team wherever possible. Our in-house acute service picks up same day cases, further reducing the stresses of normal GP life.

Our Practice Special Interests include research, minor surgery, womens health, dermatology, joint injections, teaching, LMC, PCN and ICB active membership.

Working and living in Northumberland
Blyth is a large coastal town with an economically diverse population, making our practice a busy and at times challenging place to work. Blyth offers affordable housing with significant investment in improving transport links to Newcastle and beyond.

Wider Northumberland is famous for beautiful beaches, impressive castles and sprawling countryside. Nearby Newcastle offers fantastic shopping and entertainment to suit all tastes.

Job responsibilities
Job Title: Salaried General Practitioner - Hybrid Remote
Reports to: The GP Partners (Clinically) & The Managing Partner (Administratively)
Hours: 6-8 Sessions, including a combination of on-site and remote working

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.

The post will include a combination of on-site and remote working.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, e-consultations, actioning and filing chronic disease blood tests, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Actioning blood test results ordered by other clinicians where required for example to cover absences
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Maintaining daily log of work carried out including numbers of results filed etc.
• Weekly review with mentor to ensure targets are being met
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal 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
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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 & safety:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimen's process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage, and transport arrangements
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff, and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g., pandemic, or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Directly managing all incidents of accidental exposure
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness, and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed, and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples 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:

• 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:

• 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 teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.

Communication:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:

• Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Fully Qualified GP eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS
• Full GMC Registration
• On Performers List or eligible to apply
• Clear DBS report

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP Practice

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).