Job responsibilities
Job
title: General Practitioner
SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES/POSITION IN
STRUCTURE
Will report to the Lead GP (Clinically) and
to the Practice Manager (Administration)
SPECIFIC DUTIES/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, reports 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.
- In consultation with patients and in line
with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for
health.
- Providing counselling and health
education.
- Recording clear and contemporaneous
consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collecting data for audit purposes and
complying with QOF requirements.
- Delivering enhanced services.
- 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:-
- 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.
- Willingness to work as part of the
Primary Care Network (PCN) team.
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 and Safety:-
The post-holder will assist in promoting
and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in
the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within
the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work
activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to
update knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control
procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from
hazards.
- Reporting potential risks identified
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-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, 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 recognise 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.
