Job responsibilities
JOB
DESCRIPTION
Post title: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER
Reports to: PARTNERS
(Clinically) PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
Liases with: Other Practice personnel and members of the local primary
health care team.
7
- 8 Sessions
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.
The post-holder will adhere to the GMC Standards for good medical
practice and provide services in line with the GMS Contract.
Attend and participate effectively in weekly practice meetings.
Clinical Responsibilities:
The post-holder will make him/herself 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
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,
i.e. on-call duty doctor session on a rotational basis.
Working collaboratively accepting an equal share of the practice
workload.
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice
policies/guidelines, eg. 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 performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the
post-holder will have access to confidential information relating to patients
and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers.
They will 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 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:
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 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
