Job responsibilities
Clinical
responsibilities:
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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 timely fashion
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Making professional, autonomous decisions in
relation to presenting problems, whether self-referral or referred from other
health care workers within the organisation
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Assessing the health care needs of patients with
undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
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Screening patients for disease risk factors and
early signs of illness
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In consultation with patients and in line with
current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
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Providing counselling and health education
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Admitting or discharging patients to and from
the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
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Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation
notes to agreed standards
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Collecting data for audit purposes
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Compiling and issuing computer generated acute
and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever
possible)
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Prescribing in accordance with the practice
prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
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In general the post-holder will be expecting to
undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP
working within primary care
Other
responsibilities within the organisation:
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Awareness of and compliance with all relevant
practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data
protection, health and safety
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A commitment to life-long learning and audit to
ensure evidence-based best practice
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Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical
standard setting within the organisation
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Contributing to the development of
computer-based patient records
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Contributing to the summarising of patient
records and read-coding patient data
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Attending training and events organised by the
practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
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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
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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
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Information relating to patients, carers,
colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only
be divulged to authorised person 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 their own and other 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 not be limited to)
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Using personal security systems within the
workplace according to practice guidelines
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Awareness of national standards of infection
control and cleanliness and regulatory/contractual, professional requirements
and good practice guidelines
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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
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Correct personal use of Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE_ and ensuring correct use of PPE by other, advising on
appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients
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Management of the full range of infection
control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g.
pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
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Hand hygiene standards for self and others
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Managing directly all incidents of accidental
exposure
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Management and advice relating to infection
control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of
those protocols across the practice
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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
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Identifying the risks involved in work
activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
across clinical and patient process
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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
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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
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Safe management of sharps use, storage and
disposal
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Maintenance of own clean working environment
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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
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Actively identifying, reporting, and correction
of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
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Keeping own work areas and general / patient
areas generally clean, sterile, identify 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
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Undertaking periodic infection control training
9minimum twice annually)
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Correct waste and instrument management
including handing, segregation, and container use
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Maintenance of sterile environments
Equality and
diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and
rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
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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
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Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and
beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
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Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of
the individual, is non-judgemental 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:
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Participation in an annual individual
performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of
own personal and/or professional development
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Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to other who
are undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the
practice, and will:
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Alert other team members to issues of quality
and risk
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Assess own performance and take accountability
for own actions, either directly or under supervision
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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
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Work effectively with individuals in other
agencies to meet patients needs
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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:
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Communicate effectively with other team members
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Communicate effectively with patients and carers
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Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods
of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
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Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
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Discuss with other members of the team how the
policies, standards and guidelines will affect their own work
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Participate in audit where appropriate.