About this role
Job summary
Parkfield Medical Centre is a friendly and forward-thinking practice inPotters Bar, Hertfordshire.
We pride ourselves on being a high achieving and wellestablished practice with a history of excellent staff retention.
We are looking for a salaried GP who is enthusiastic, has positive energy, and a good sense of humour.
This role is offered on 3 sessions per week (all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning) on a Fixed Term basis from 01.08.26 to 31.03.27.
Reputable training and teaching practice with a strong commitment to personal
Consistently high QOF achievement
Good across all domains following CQC inspection in May 2016.
4 GP partners and 3 Salaried GPs are supported by a large multidisciplinary team.
Nurse Matron, Paramedic, Clinical Pharmacist, Practice Nurses, Nursing Associate
A strong management team and a warm reception and administrative team.
EMIS IT system
GMS list size circa 13,000.
Monthly clinical meetings for all our clinical staff.
Very active and supportive PPG
Onsite parking
No extended hours or weekend commitments
The applicant should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and provide high quality patient-centred care.
You will need to be a Registered GP with the GMC, possess the right to work in the UK, included on NHS performers list before you apply.
CV and cover letter applications should be directed to Julie [email protected]
Main duties of the job
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. Teamwork is an essential part of the role, working as part of our senior clinical team to provide quality care to our patients as well as supporting the wider practice core clinical workload.
About us
Parkfield has 14,000 patients. The practice population is relatively stable with a high percentage of middle-aged people and a high elderly population, but we have plenty of young families and children as well. We are a training practice for Registrars and Medical Students.
Training Practice
Parkfield is a training practice. Doctors who wish to pursue a career in General Practice complete their GP training programme for either a 4 month placement or a 12 month placement. We also have Cambridge medical students.
Job description Job responsibilities
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. Teamwork is an essential part of the role, working as part of our senior clinical team to provide quality care to our patients as well as supporting the wider practice core clinical workload.
Clinical Responsibilities:
In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, insurance forms and correspondence in a timely fashion.
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
In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
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, coding accurately for QOF, ECF, and IIF targets.
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.
In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
The post holder will be given dedicated QOF, ECF And IIF domains and dedicated management time in which this work should be carried out.
Progress against these targets will be monitored and discussed with the GP partners.
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:
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 specimens 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.
Manage 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.
Managing directly 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 correction of 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
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 recognizes 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:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements 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. This must include completion of all mandatory and statutory training.
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 teams performance.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
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
Qualifications Essential
We are looking for a salaried GP who is enthusiastic, has positive energy, and a good sense of humour.
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 details Employer name Parkfield Medical Centre
Address The Walk
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 1QH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.parkfieldmedicalcentre.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)