Job responsibilities
Key clinical responsibilities
Undertaking the normal duties and
responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care including but
not limited to:
- Patient consultations (in person, video calls,
telephone calls, home visits).
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in
relation to presenting problems (self-referred by the patient or referred by
others in the practice).
- Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with
undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems.
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and
early signs of illness.
- Managing patients with long term conditions and
developing care plans.
- Referring to other case providers as appropriate.
- Attending any emergencies in the practice.
- Prescribing (both acute and repeat) in
accordance with local and national guidelines.
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions /
queries.
- Checking patient medical test results and
actioning as appropriate.
- Completing patient medical reports and
examinations as required.
- Recording accurate, clear and contemporaneous
notes to professional standards.
- All other supporting paperwork and related
administrative work.
- Supporting other practice clinicians in their
queries.-
- Audits of patient care and outcomes, collecting
data/complying with national requirements.
- Preparedness to represent the practice in PCN or
other local meetings if required.
- Using our relevant IT systems including EMIS Web.
- Balancing patient care and time management
effectively. Ensuring the service runs efficiently and effectively.
- Treating all patients with respect, dignity,
warmth and empathy to ensure patients feel cared for and have a positive
experience in the practice.
- Whilst maintaining the above, also managing the
demanding primary care workload to ensure that the practice is able to care for
its whole patient population in a timely yet effective manner.
- Contributing to the team working safely and
effectively together at all times.
- Identifying any issues and working with the
practice management team to develop the practice to achieve high standards of
quality and performance.
- For planned absences, ensuring handover of your
work to colleagues to ensure that patient care and practice workload doesn't
suffer.
- In the case of unplanned absences, handover may
not be possible, therefore its important to make sure that any work is up to
date, clear and on our shared systems (e.g. EMIS, the shared drives, MS Teams)
when you leave every day so that anyone could take over in the case of
unplanned absence.
- Working pattern and availability should be in
accordance with practice timetable/rota as agreed with the management team.
- This includes the full range of medical services
as defined in the core GMS contracts and additional/enhanced services where
appropriate.
Statutory and practice requirements
- Remaining aware and compliant with all relevant
practice policies / guidelines including but not limited to data protection, confidentiality,
health & safety, any relevant clinical guidelines, etc.
- Ensuring practice processes and protocols are
adhered to at all times including but not limited to complaints, infection
control, holiday bookings, absence reporting, referrals management, etc.
- Patients trust us with highly sensitive
information and you will have access to this information this must all be
treated with utmost confidentiality and respect for the privacy of the
patients.
- Ensuring you follow health & safety policy
to promote and maintain your own and others health, safety and security at all
times including completing any relevant trainings.
- Supporting the equality, diversity and rights of
patients and colleagues to foster a culture of respect and inclusivity.
- Alerting other team members and the management
team of clinical governance issues including any significant events. This
includes assessing your own performance and taking responsibility for your own
actions.
- Maintaining current Basic Life Support and
Anaphylaxis certification.
The above is not exhaustive and
may be adjusted periodically by the management team.