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:
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
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation
notes to agreed standards
Collecting data for audit purposes
Compiling
and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding
handwritten prescriptions whenever possible)
Prescribing
in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever
this is clinically appropriate
Use
tools available to aid consultation with patients for whom English is not their
first language e.g. Language Line and interpreters
In
general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties
and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care
Participate in clinical audit and SEA
Offer
support to other clinicians including but not limited to ANPs, the nursing
team, clinical pharmacists and first contact physiotherapist
Participate in appraisal
Other
responsibilities within the organisation:
Commitment to working as part of the
multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to practice meetings
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
Communicate effectively with the practice team
via the clinical system functions and email
Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical
standard setting within the organisation
Attending training and events organised by the
practice or other agencies, where appropriate
Participate in annual performance and
development review
Undertake
any other duties as may reasonably be delegated to the grade and function of
the post
Support, network and provide cover for other PCS
owned practices
Be on the Sheffield performers list
Hold a full, clean driving licence
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and
responsibilities and in discussion with the manager the postholder may be
required to undertake other duties which fall within the definition of the
post. The job description will be reviewed annually at the post holders PDR in
light of the changing service requirements and any such changes will be
discussed with the post holder.
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.
