Salaried GP @ Deddington Health Centre

Job summary

We are looking for a Salaried GP to join our friendly and supportive team at Deddington Health Centre in rural Oxfordshire for 4 to 6 clinical sessions per week.

We care for around 12,500 patients and place a strong emphasis on continuity, high-quality patient care and the wellbeing of our team. We offer capped patient contacts in line with BMA safe working guidance, protected administration time within every session and a total triage model without long duty days.

We are a well-established training and dispensing practice with a supportive multidisciplinary team, daily coffee breaks and weekly clinical meetings. We offer a structured induction, study leave and support for developing specialist interests.

If you are looking for a friendly practice where people feel supported, decisions are explained and your contribution is valued, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide high-quality general medical services to our patient population as part of our established clinical team.

The role includes routine and urgent patient care, participation in our total triage system, appropriate follow-up and continuity of care, clinical administration and occasional routine or palliative care home visits where required.

Patient contacts are capped in line with BMA safe working guidance at around 25 per day, with protected administration time built into each session. Triage is shared between four doctors each day, with each providing approximately half a session.

The GP will participate in weekly clinical meetings and work collaboratively with our wider multidisciplinary team. We are a training practice and welcome GPs who wish to develop specialist interests.

About us

Deddington Health Centre is a friendly, established GP practice serving around 12,500 patients in Deddington and the surrounding rural Oxfordshire villages.

We are a dispensing and training practice, rated Good by CQC, and use EMIS with a total triage model. Our population is older than average and includes three care homes, so continuity and long-term relationships with our patients are particularly important to us.

Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, an Advanced Care Practitioner, pharmacists, physiotherapy and social prescribing support. We have a local visiting service which means GP home visits are relatively few.

We place a high value on staff health and wellbeing and aim to provide a supportive working environment. Daily morning coffee, weekly clinical meetings, structured induction, protected administration time and support for professional development are all part of working at Deddington.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, safe and effective general medical care to the practice population, assessing and managing patients with acute, chronic, complex and psychological health needs.
• Participate in the practice's total triage system, sharing responsibility for assessing patient requests and determining the most appropriate response or onward care.
• Promote continuity of care, including appropriate follow-up of patients and management of long-term conditions.
• Prescribe and review medication safely in accordance with NICE, local prescribing guidance, clinical pathways and practice policies.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency presentations, initiating emergency care where required.
• Undertake appropriate health promotion, prevention, anticipatory care and self-care support.
• Make appropriate and timely referrals to secondary care, community services and other agencies.
• Complete clinical administration promptly, including referrals, prescriptions, results, correspondence and other associated clinical tasks.
• Maintain accurate, timely and appropriate clinical records using EMIS and in accordance with professional, legal and practice requirements.
• Undertake home visits where clinically appropriate, recognising that Deddington has access to a local visiting service and GP visits are normally limited.
• Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary practice team, including the Advanced Care Practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapy and social prescribing services.
• Participate in clinical meetings, clinical governance, audit, significant-event learning, quality improvement and service development.
• Contribute appropriately to the delivery of QOF, contractual requirements and other practice or local quality initiatives.
• Fulfil responsibilities for adult and child safeguarding and comply with relevant legislation, guidance and practice procedures.
• Contribute to the practice's role as a training practice, including appropriate education, support or supervision where agreed.
• Maintain professional competence through continuing professional development, annual appraisal and GMC revalidation requirements.
• Maintain appropriate professional registration and comply with GMC Good Medical Practice, practice policies and applicable clinical guidance.
• Work collaboratively and equitably with colleagues, contributing appropriately to the overall clinical workload and supporting a positive, respectful and continuously improving practice culture.
• Develop and contribute specialist interests or additional areas of responsibility where mutually agreed with the practice.
• Undertake other reasonable duties appropriate to the role of Salaried GP according to patient need, workload and service requirements.
• Work within a buddy group to cover colleagues results when they are absent.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GMC registration
• Performers list registration
• Current validation
• Eligble to practice in UK

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

Deddington Health Centre

Address

Deddington Health Centre

Earls Lane

Deddington

Banbury

Oxfordshire

OX15 0TQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://deddingtonhealthcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)