About this role
Job summary
SystmOne, Accurx Total Triage and Ardens Template embedded practice.
- We are a 3 site GP practice with a single M-number and would expect the post-holder to work across all 3 sites.
- A team of 6 Partners and 17 Salaried GPs as well as 4 Paramedics (who cover the majority of home visits), a team of Clinical Pharmacist and a very supportive team of Nurses, HCAs and Phlebotomists
- An excellent skilled admin team and highly supportive management team working across all three sites
- Is part of a forward thinking, supportive PCN with a well established and rapidly growing clinical team
- Typical clinic includes 14 patients per clinic with a small amount of clinical admin.
- Majority of prescriptions are managed by our prescribing team along with much of our docman being managed by our workflow team.
- It is rarely required to do a home visit as these are typically undertaken by our paramedics.
- We are a clinician led total triage practice and allocate the Oncall and triage sessions equally and fairly amongst our GP workforce.
- A growing group list size of 25,017 patients
- Rated good with outstanding in well-led by CQC
- High QOF and Universal Offer achievement year on year
Main duties of the job
We offer lots of learning opportunities within the practice and have multiple GPs with extended roles (including Dermatology, MSK, Diabetes, Womens health) and would be happy to support and encourage GPs to pursue their interests.
We are a teaching practice and have 3rd and 4th year UoB medical Students along with GP Registrar trainees.Lordswood is also a registered research practice undertaking studies with NIHR
We are looking for a Salaried GP who shares our values of offering high quality patient centered care. In return we can offer:
Sessional rate depending on experience and transferable skills
Flexible number of working sessions between 4 8 per week
Flexibility with the working day
Regular weekly admin time built into the rota
Teaching opportunities with registrars and under-graduates
Free parking at all sites
The opportunity for supported CPD including regular clinical and team meetings
About us
SystmOne, Accurx Total Triage and Ardens Template embedded practice.
We are a 3 site GP practice with a single M-number and would expect the post-holder to work across all 3 sites.
Typical clinic includes 14 patients per clinic with a small amount of clinical admin.
Job description Job responsibilities
In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion
Triage patients presenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person
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 and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education
Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements
Delivering enhanced services
Check, manage & process patient test results
Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines
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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis
Person Specification
Responsibilities Essential
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 clinician led accurx total triage, face to face consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results, patient referral letters NHS/private, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation Recording clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards Collecting data for audit purposes; Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written or paper prescriptions whenever possible) Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines. In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
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 Lordswood Medical Practice
Address 54 Lordswood Road
Harborne
Birmingham
West Midlands
B17 9DB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://lordswood.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)