Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice:
- Assess, plan, provide and evaluate
treatment programmes including, but not limited to:
- Manage and treat patients with long term conditions in line
with national / local policies and practice needs with the inclusion of Home Visits
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness in
accordance with evidence based practice and national / practice protocols, and
work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for Family Planning and Cervical Cytology Consultations
- Implement and participate in Vaccination and Immunisation Programmes for both Adults and Children
Confidentiality
In the
course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so
in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their
privacy and act appropriately
In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may
have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers,
practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to
information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such
information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
Information
relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the
business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of
promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection
control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice
Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and
published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness
of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /
contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Responsible
for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including
collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage
and transport arrangements
- Responsible
for hand hygiene across the practice
- Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Safe
management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy,
clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial /
corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,
identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within
the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general
standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training
- Spillage
control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination
control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance
of sterile environments
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and
rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in
a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a
way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting
the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving
in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and
respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development
The post-holder will participate in any training programme
implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to
include:
- Participation
in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for
maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating
skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the
practice, and will:
- Alert
other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess
own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or
under supervision
- Contribute
to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and
making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work
effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively
manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective
communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply
practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss
with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will
affect own work
- Participate
in audit where appropriate