Job responsibilities
ASHWELL SURGERY
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: General Practitioner
SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES/POSITION IN STRUCTURE
Will report to the GP Partners (Clinically) and to the
Practice Manager (Administration)
SPECIFIC DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
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, reports 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 and complying with QOF requirements.
- Delivering enhanced services.
- 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.
- 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 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 and 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 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 revalidation 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 recognise the importance of
effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members.
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers.
- Recognise 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.