Job responsibilities
Parklands
Medical Practice
Salaried
GP Job Description
SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
The post-holder will manage a share of practice clinical
workload 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
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 as agreed.
- 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.
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Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the
organisation.
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Contributing to the maintenance of computer-based patient records.
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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:-
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.
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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 recognizes
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 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 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.