General Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

General Practitioner

TITLE OF POST:

Salaried General Practitioner

SALARY :

Competitive remuneration package

HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT :

6 to 8 Sessions per week to be discussed further

APPOINTMENT :

Permanent contract

RESPONSIBLE TO:

The Partners

ACCOUNTABLE TO:

The Partners

Job summary

The post holder is an General Practitioner, who acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice. They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures. In order to work at this level, GMC requirements must be met.

Scope and Purpose of the Role

• To deliver a high standard of patient care as a General Practitioner in general practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base
• 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 expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
• To manage own clinical workload in general practice responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.

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.

Primary duties and areas of responsibility

The post-holder will :

• Provide the choice of direct access to a GP, both in the Practice and over the telephone as well as home visits for the general practice population
• Make professionally autonomous decisions for which he/she is accountable
• Provide contact within the Practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan
• Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports
• Where the post holder is an independent prescriber : to prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework
• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
• Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care
• Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills
• Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate
• Work with mutli-disciplinary team within the Practice, and across the wider Primary Care Trust (PCT), to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
• Contribute to the practice achieving its quality targets such as QOF to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery

Participate in identification of community health needs and develop patient/family-centred strategies to address them

Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of practice-based commissioning

C. Professional role :

The post-holder will :

• Promote evidence-based practice through the use of the latest research-based guidelines and the development of practice-based research.
• Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review
• Maintain their professional registration
• Participate in continuing professional development opportunities to ensure that up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained
• Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with the latest GMC guidance and other pertinent standards
• Keep up to date with pertinent health-related policy and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
• Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the practice.
• Demonstrate leadership
• Pro-actively promote the role of the GP within the Practice, and externally to key stakeholders and agencies

D. 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, with 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

E. Managerial role :

The post-holder will :

Participate in clinical supervision for the nursing team, and act as GP advisor to other members of the Primary Healthcare team.

Encourage and develop teamwork within the practice.

Participate in multi-disciplinary protocol and Patient Group Directions development

Identify appropriate opportunities to delegate both clinical and administrative tasks to more junior staff.

Help the practice operate in a cost-effective manner.

Identify and manage nursing care risks on a continuing basis.

Participate in practice meetings and practice management meetings, reporting progress as required.

Participate in audits and inspections as appropriate.

Work closely with the doctors and administrative managers in the setting up and/or improving of practice systems for monitoring/measuring performance against Clinical Governance and Quality Indicator targets.

Ensure that all Practice Policies are fully implemented

Maintain necessary Occupational health records for clinical staff.

F. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified GP with Full GMC registration

Performers List Registration

MRGCP

Health and safety/risk management

• The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
• The post-holder will comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Equality and diversity

• The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Respect and patient confidentiality

• The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Communication and working relationships

• The post-holder will establish and maintain effective communication pathways with the following :

Internal

GPs across the PCT

GPs both within the practice and the PCN as a whole

Specialist Team Leaders

All Nursing Staff

Modern Matrons

General Practices

Special working conditions

The post-holder will have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates; urine etc while in clinical practice.

Rehabilitation of offenders act 1994

Because of the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1994 (Exceptions) Order 1995. Applicants for posts are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are spent under the provisions of the Act and in the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in disciplinary action or dismissal by the Practice. Any information given will be completely confidential and will be considered only in relation to an applicant of a position to which the order applies.

Job description agreement

This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the Practice. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the Practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential
• Qualified GP with Full GMC registration
• Performers List Registration
• MRGCP

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Dr Hardman & Partners (Practice Two)

Address

Station Avenue

Bridlington

YO16 4LZ

Employer's website

https://www.practicetwobridlington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)