Job responsibilities
West Derby Medical
Centre
JOB TITLE: Salaried General Practitioner
REPORTS TO: The Partners (Clinically)
The Practice Director (Administratively)
Sessions: 6 sessions per week
Job Summary:
The post-holder
will manage 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 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 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
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:
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
Attending training and events
organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Contribution
to the implementation of services:
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.
Work alongside the practice team
Work alongside and with external
providers including care home staff, district nurses and hospital teams.
Contribution
to usual GP workload
Complete a share of Urgent Care surgeries
shared pro rata between all our GPs
Complete a pro rata share of paperwork
(after full clinical document management has been completed by our
administration team)
Routine surgery allocation of patients
Take responsibility for a pro rata
share of all other practice responsibilities
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 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 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 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
Recognize 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.
Changes to
Duties:
The Partners
reserve the right to distribute duties and functions amongst the members of
staff from time to time. Staff are expected to take on additional duties, with
training, and to relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the effective
running of the Practice. Any such changes will always be made in consultation
with the post holder