Gp, Healthcare

Main duties of the job

The Patient first contact is predominantly via Accurx, our online triage system, ensuring timely, efficient and appropriate allocation of care across the multidisciplinary team.

Provide high-quality, personalised medical services to the practice population, delivering sensitive, responsive and patient-centred care.

Ensure that ethnic, linguistic, cultural and social needs of patients are recognised and appropriately addressed in all aspects of care.

Contribute to shaping, developing and organising services to reflect the evolving needs of the local community and practice population.

Promote and contribute to the practice as a learning organisation, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of current policy, clinical guidelines and best evidence, and supporting their integration into everyday practice.

Work effectively within the primary healthcare team, fostering strong multidisciplinary collaboration and taking on leadership responsibilities where appropriate.

Actively participate in and promote quality improvement initiatives, including clinical governance, audit, and service evaluation.

Work in line with the practices aims, objectives and values, contributing to a positive, supportive and sustainable working culture.

We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of health and well-being within our community. Our ambition is to deliver the priorities set out in the GP forwardview in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and professionally satisfying forour staff.

The health and wellbeing of our workforce is of paramount importance to us. We have appointed a dedicated Health and Wellbeing Lead to ensure this remains a core focus of practice life.

We actively align our working practices with recent BMA guidance on safe working in general practice, including recommended safe limits on the number of patient contacts per day. This approach underpins our commitment to sustainability, safe patient care and clinician wellbeing.

Our Practice family is large, diverse and highly supportive, consisting of7 GP's, GP Registrars, ANP, Nurse Prescribers, Practice Nurses,Pharmacists, Community Paramedic, and HCA's. Our strong administrative and management team play a vital role in reducing GP workload and supporting efficient service delivery, including 17receptionists and a head receptionist at each location, 3 clinicalcoders, one scanner, data quality lead, 2 deputy Practice Managers, Office Manager and Practice Manager.

In addition to our core services, we are a committed and active member of our local Primary Care Network (PCN). We work collaboratively with PCN partners to improve patient access and service delivery across our local area.

We are looking for someone tojoin our team in Lancashire who believes in our vision for high quality, locally relevant primary care and who wants to actively engage in our delivery of that vision. Whatever stage you are at in your career,you will have a passion for medicine, for learning, and for finding solutionsor new ways of working. You will be excited by the prospect of embracing new technologies and keen to transform the way we deliver care.

You will be thekind of GP who thrives in a collaborative team, are confident to seek supportwhen you need it and supporting of your peers when they do.

We understand how important it is to offer genuinely flexible working, and are always open to a conversation about what working arrangementswould suit your personal circumstances. If you're the right fit for us, thenwe'll do our best to be the right fit for you.

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 patients.

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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 (docman) 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.

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

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 health education.

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or…