Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the
post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties
including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting
patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with
queries, paperwork and correspondence in timely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to
presenting problems, whether self-referral or referred from other health care
workers within the organisation
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with
undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early
signs of illness
- In consultation with patients and in line with current
practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload
and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to
agreed standards
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer generated acute and repeat
prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing
formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In general the post-holder will be expecting to undertake
all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within
primary care
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice
policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health
and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure
evidence-based best practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard
setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient
records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and
read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or
other agencies, where appropriate.
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 person 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 other 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 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
- Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the
specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and
clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE_ and ensuring correct use of PPE by other, advising on appropriate
circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients
- Management of the full range of infection control
procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or
individual infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to infection control and
clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols
across the practice
- Active observation of current working practices across the
practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,
ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are
identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical
and patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation
to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand cleansing
facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical
working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the
responsible manager
- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- 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, identify 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 responsible managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training 9minimum
twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument management including handing,
segregation, and container use
- Maintenance of sterile environments
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 which is welcoming to and of the
individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings
priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through
attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that
professional development requirements for PREP are met, 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 other 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 recognize 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 their own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
