Job responsibilities
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 : core work
The
post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties to
provide best patient care.
This
will involve nine clinical and one professional development session pro rata.
They
will undertake Supervising GP duties in accordance with the rota. Details of specific responsibilities related
to this area are in the Supervising GP policy.
The post holder will be required to be on site from 8am to 6.30pm when
on this duty.
Other
clinical sessions will include a mixture of same day phone assessments, urgent
phone assessments, face to face and pre-bookable appointments as well as Docman
processing. The post holder will fulfil
these duties in accordance with relevant policies.
The
post holder will work as part of a team at Millbrook, helping as required with
administration tasks, home visits and dealing with acute and repeat
prescription requests.
Personal
development and Docman sessions will take place in practice. This is so the GP s able to attend practice
meetings before or after these sessions.
It is also important they are present in the rare case that they might
need to cover clinical work (for example if a colleague is unwell).
Clinical
responsibilities general description
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.
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.
Other
responsibilities within the organisation
Attendance
at Millbrook meetings within working hours.
Lead
the MDT in some clinical or contractual areas.
This will be with support from a GP Partner and in a mutually agreed
area. This may involve chairing relevant
meetings, developing policies within that area, audit and other
activities. The post holder will have
accountability for outcomes within this area.
This could involve, for example, palliative care, Doctor training,
safeguarding, NICE guidance etc.
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 their 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 and 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 and safety policy, the practice health and 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 infection
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 cross 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-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, 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.
