SALARIED GP JOB PLAN Clinical Duties Clinical duties involve seeing patients either face-to-face or managing them through Telephone Consultations. There are different types of sessions which include 1. Face-to-face clinic 2. Visiting doctor 3.
Duty doctor 4. Navigation doctor 5. Non-GMS doctor 6. Enhanced Access doctor Each Face-to-face session comprises: 10 appointments of 15 minutes duration with catch-up slots after every 3 appointments.
4 Follow-up telephone calls which are blocked this is for you to call back any patients you need to follow-up. Occasionally if you have seen a patient and ordered a blood test, if you had not booked follow-up and another clinician has seen the test result and feels they need to follow-up with you as you had originally seen them, then the call will be booked into this slot. New work should not find its way into this slot and you will be asked to pass this back to Reception if this happens. 2 sick note slots.
The red emergency blocked slots are protected for Reception or duty team to use. If you need to bring back a patient urgently, please discuss with Duty or Navigation doctor on the day. Please feel free to book any follow-ups into the purple routine slots but be mindful that we are setting routine appointments at 5-6 weeks we ask that clinicians also get patients to wait 5-6 weeks if the problem that you are bringing them back for is non-urgent. Start times at 09:30 is possible for doctors who have a school run to do but there will be fewer catch-ups.
You could be doing these sessions at either Aspen Centre, Saintbridge Surgery or Tuffley Surgery. Tuffley Surgery is only open on Tuesdays and Thursdays with only routine appointments. Duty and Navigation doctor sessions Duty Doctor, Navigation Doctor and Visiting Doctor all sit together in the Duty Hub. The job involves, triaging all home visit requests, supporting Reception with navigating patients to the most appropriate clinician, signing off prescriptions, supporting Allied Health Professionals and Trainees with clinical queries, speaking to Paramedics/District Nurses etc.
There are no booked patients to see when doing Duty or Navigation doctor duties. Sitting together makes the day much more enjoyable allowing exchange of information and discussion. Visiting doctor session comprises: Visiting patients only and all visits are triaged by the Duty Doctor. 2 sick note slots.
4 Follow-up telephone calls which are blocked this is for you to call back any patients you need to follow-up. Occasionally if you have seen a patient and ordered a blood test, if you had not booked follow-up and another clinician has seen the test result and feels they need to follow-up with you as you had originally seen them, then the call will be booked into this slot. New work should not find its way into this slot and you will be asked to pass this back to Reception if this happens. If you have no visits, we hope you will help Duty and Navigation doctor sign off the electronic prescriptions or you may wish to triage your own visits when you are not out on the road.
Non-GMS session comprises of visiting Great Western Court (reablement unit) and Charlton Lane (Old Age Psychiatry hospital) to provide GP services. Each day we have one doctor assigned to cover this and you will not have any other appointments in this session. Enhanced Access session is really a later session starting from about 4pm and finishing at 8pm. Each day a doctor is assigned to do EA and will start their morning clinic at 10am (ie you will work from 10am to 8pm instead of 8:30am to 6:30pm).
To recognise the clinician for the unsociable hours, you will receive £100 per EA session that you do on top of normal pay. Surgery times and session length Morning sessions generally start at 8:30am and should finish by 1:00pm for lunch. Afternoon sessions generally start at 2:00pm and should finish by 6:30pm. These are very busy times but we value everyone getting away on time.
Locum sessions If you are interested in locum sessions, please let the Appointment Book team know (Amy Cheape and Debbie Bateman) you will then be copied into emails when we have dates needing locum cover. Annual Appraisal Every doctor is given a session out for their annual appraisal please let the Appointment Book team know at least 7 weeks in advance when you are deciding on your appraisal date. Administration Your main admin is generated from seeing patients referrals, results etc. Documents are minimal and most clinicians will have no more than 4 to 5 documents per day.
Results from investigations you order. On your non-working days and when you are on leave, Admin team at 9:00am each morning will clear your results inbox and share it out to all available working clinicians that day. Therefore, on your normal working day, you would expect to get a share of other colleagues results who are not in that day. Reports are centralised and done by our Admin manager therefore you are not given reports to do.
If you have been involved with a child/family who require a Safeguarding report, the report will be prepared by Admin team who will add this to your list to check and send you an email to let you know. Once you have checked the standard report they have prepared it and are happy, then you email them back to let them know that it is fine to send off. Electronic prescriptions are signed off by Duty, Navigation and Visiting doctors. Tasks, Results, Documents and emails should be checked on your working days.
Team meetings There are monthly Protected Learning Time meetings between 1:00-3:30pm on alternating Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. These are educational sessions with both internal and external speakers arranged. Significant events are also discussed at these sessions. Learning bulletins are generated monthly to share learning.
There are also monthly Safeguarding and Palliative/Frailty meetings that take place if you are interested in coming to those. Special interests If you have a special interest in a particular area and you are keen to develop this further please do not hesitate to have a discussion with Dr Hasib Khalid. We are keen to support personal development if we can and there are certainly more opportunities in a large practice like this. However, if you are enjoying just being a GP, good on you as well because doing this job alone is challenging enough.
You do not have to have a special interest to be a valued member of the Aspen team. Mentoring and support Dr Hasib Khalid is the nominated partner looking after salaried GPs. But please feel free to approach any partner you feel most comfortable with for regular ongoing mentoring and support. New joiners may feel happier with regular meetings with their chosen mentor we do not wish to impose anything but would be very happy to have regular meetings and indeed that may be advisable for at least the first few months

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