Job responsibilities
The post-holder will 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 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
QOF engagement and Long-Term Condition management
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
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to
agreed standards
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
Act as the On Call GP in line with practice needs
Participation in leadership and training roles in the
practice
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 Snomed coding patient data
Attending training and events organised by the practice or
other agencies, where appropriate
MDT Meeting Engagement
Clinical meeting attendance
Monthly practice meeting attendance
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
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
