Job responsibilities
Job summary
The
postholder will hold a patient list 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 rota, the post-holder will 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.
- Make
professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether
self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the
organisation.
- Assess
the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed
problems.
- Screen
patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Develop
care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current
practice disease management protocols.
- Provide
counselling and health education.
- Record
clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collect
data for audit purposes.
- Compile
and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
- Prescribe
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.
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 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, and
- Taking
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and
demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar
work.
Quality and safety
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,
and
- 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, and
- Recognise
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond
accordingly.
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, all access to confidential information relating to patients
and their carers, practice staff, other healthcare workers and information
relating to the practice as a business organisation 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.
Equality
and diversity
You 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.
Other responsibilities within
the organisation
- 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.
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice
policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection,
health and safety.
- Contributing to the accurate summarising of patient
records and coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice
or other agencies, where appropriate.