Gp, Doctor​/Physician

Billingshurst Surgery are looking for a reliable, enthousiastic and motivated team player to come and join our friendly team. We are committed to providing our patient population with excellent healthcare. We place high value in our staff and the wellbeing of staff is important to us.

Informal visits are encouraged.

The post-holder will provide general medical services managing a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registeredand temporary patients.

Billingshurst Surgery is based in a semi-rural West Sussex commuter village and is well respected locally. We are a busy, high achieving dispensing practice with nearly 14,000 patients and offer an organised and supportive work environment.

We are a friendly organisation committed to providing an open, friendly and supportive environment where all staff are encouraged to share ideas and contribute to continuously improving the service we offer.

Purpose of the role

To manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload.

The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in the Quality and Outcomes Framework,treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse, patient list.

Closely supported by Billingshurst clinical and management teams the post holder will act as one of the GPs within the practice working alongside the practice.

The role will be at the forefront of delivering an innovative model of primary care service provision.

Clinical responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, asagreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake clinical sessions. A clinical session is normallyfour hours 10 minutes in duration and will comprise of telephone andface-to-face consultations. Duty/on-call doctor days may vary in structure. Dailyduties may also include home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions,actioning test results and letters, medical reports and examinations (e.g.Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice.

The above duties should be performed in a timely manner using Billingshurst Medical protocols.

You will be required to:

Act upon most alerts (e.g. QOF) and reminders during a routine consultation

Provide all GP services required as part of the GMS contract held between Billingshurst Surgery and the Integrated Care Board (IC/b) including all core services such as Child Health Surveillance

Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis and referral where appropriate.

Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice.

Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff

Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMSRegulations (1992).

Adhere to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation;

Record clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards;

Collect data for audit purposes;

Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions

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 with the Practice:

Engaging inappropriate lifelong educational and audit activity in order to maintain clinical competence and performance, including the completion of objectivesagreed by yourself and the practice, in an annual Personal Development Plan.

Your Personal Development Plan must be in line with the Practice Development Plan. Keeping your Mandatory Training up to date.

Activelyparticipating in the training and development of nurses, medical students and GP trainees in the practice.

Supporting the practice staff and responding to requests for advice and assistance from the practice reception, dispensary, secretarial and nursing staff.

Support and supervision of registrars wherever applicable

Attend prescribing, palliative care, clinical and practice meetings.

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, healthand safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice.

Meet all tight timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns toensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designatedfunding (e.g. Quarterly Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF audit etc.)

General Duties

The above responsibilities will be undertaken upholding the following:

1. To be available to take over the responsibility of patient care from the Out of Hours service on a working day or where applicable maintain responsibility till the appropriate time when the Out of Hours service takes over care in…