Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER
REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)
THE PRACTICE MANAGER
(Administratively)
HOURS: TO BE ARRANGED
Job summary:
The post-holder
will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary
care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and
temporary patients.
Clinical responsibilities:
In accordance with the practice
timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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 a
timely fashion
Making professional, autonomous
decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred 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
Developing care plans for health in
consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management
protocols
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/performing
audits
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.
Participation
in the teaching and management of medical students
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 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 of 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
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 others, 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
correcting 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 responsible managers
Undertaking periodic infection
control training (minimum twice annually)
Correct waste and instrument
management, including handling, segregation, and container use
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 recognises 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-judgmental 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, 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.
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 own work
Participate in audit where
appropriate.
