Job responsibilities
Demonstrate highly developed interpersonal and
communication skills
Develop critical thinking, complex clinical reasoning, and
problem-solving skills
Be a caring, compassionate clinician that is committed to
high quality patient care
Practice, without direct supervision, as an autonomous
primary care healthcare practitioner.
Safely manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed
presentations using data gathering, clinical examinations, diagnosis,
organising investigations, safe prescribing, management, completing referrals,
and follow-up within their agreed scope of practice and capabilities.
Participate in clinical audit and quality improvement
projects
Provide mentorship, supervision of other trainees, and
appropriate leadership activities Mentorship and clinical supervision will be
provided by designated Educators (GPs and appropriately qualified ACPs/FCPs).
The level and type of clinical supervision will be flexible depending on the
post holders skills, knowledge, and capabilities, and determined by the
organisations clinical governance arrangements.
Clinical responsibilities:
Safely manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed
presentations using data gathering, assessing for red flags, investigation,
diagnosis, management, and review within their agreed scope of practice and
capabilities. This will include within the organisation setting, home visits
and care homes
Must demonstrate complex clinical reasoning skills, to use
problem solving approaches to analyse and synthesise information, manage
medical and clinical uncertainty particularly in relation to a wide range of
contexts and clinical presentations, and to include physical, mental, and
social problems
Have a sound understanding of referral pathways including
routine, urgent, 2-week wait and emergency admissions
Use resources appropriately and effectively
Manage acute/chronic presentations and medical complexity
Safely and effectively use a range of consultation modes
to include telephone, video, online and face to face
Prescribe treatment and medication safely in line with
local and national guidelines (where professional regulation and training
permits i.e., an independent prescriber)
To offer personalised care to people and signpost to and
link with other members of the organisation or wider health and social care
team
Make every contact count in terms of public and patient
health. Provide health promotion and patient education in supporting patients
for healthier lifestyle, self-care and in managing their own conditions
Understand the needs of the organisations population and
work to meet them effectively as part of the wider team
Work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team
understanding the capabilities of colleagues to promote the most appropriate
care for people
Manage own workload and work flexibly to meet clinical
demand on the day and the needs of the practice
Manage urgent situations by providing effective immediate
emergency care, including initiating, and performing BLS/anaphylaxis management
and use of AED
To provide accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records
of patient consultations, consistent with legislation policies and procedures
Support the practices on-call triage system
Manage own and others pathology results in accordance
with own level of capabilities, and following shared care pathology guidance
and organisations policies and procedures
Safely and effectively manage documents (clinical
letters/hospital discharges) in accordance with own level of clinical
capabilities, and following organisations policies and procedures
Communication skills:
Have advanced and flexible interpersonal and communication
skills to engage in effective and complex interactions with patients, carers,
and colleagues as detailed in the profession specific framework
Communicate effectively with individuals who require
additional assistance for consultation e.g., use of interpreters, BLS interpreters,
easy read, people with LD etc.
Use communication skills to maintain a professional
approach when working with patient and colleagues
Research, Quality and Leadership: The post-holder will
strive to maintain quality within the organisation and will
Demonstrate evidence-based care, working within local and
national guidelines, and organisations policies and protocols
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
following organisations policies and procedures of significant event analysis
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
Take an active role in research studies within the policy
framework of the organisation
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and
peer review, and formal evaluation including participation in regular appraisal
Participate in audit, data collection and activity
monitoring to improve own performance as well as organisation quality
improvement projects
Take an active leadership role across the organisation as
required, leading on projects, contributing to strategic planning, leading a
team or workstream within clinical, or non-clinical practice such as education,
quality improvement, project management.
Professional development and Education:
Develop own skills and capabilities through education,
training and development activities related to the current and future demands
of the role, seeking opportunities to enhance skills to maintain current
Registration and achieve Revalidation standards
Participate in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or
professional development
Work within codes of conduct and practice set out by
relevant professional body
Understand and observe professional and national
guidelines on confidentiality
Participate in teaching and mentoring of other health
professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team
Understand own role and scope and identify how this may
develop over time
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting
others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
Contribute and attend organisational meetings for own
learning and development, to enhance team working, and improve patient care
Confidentiality:
While 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 postholder may have access to confidential information
relating to patients, carers, organisation staff and other healthcare workers.
They may also have access to information relating to the organisation as a business.
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 organisation may only be
divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the organisations policies
and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and
sensitive data.
Infection Prevention and Control, Health and Safety: The
post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others
health, safety and security as defined in the organisations Health &
Safety Policy to include:
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to organisations guidelines
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
Complete annual training in infection control and other
areas of health and safety in the workplace
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills
Using appropriate infection control procedures,
maintaining work areas in a tidy, 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 organisations
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.
Safeguarding: Individuals have a duty of care to children
and vulnerable adults that they encounter whilst at work to safeguard and
promote their welfare and to work to prevent, recognize, respond, appropriately
refer, and record potential neglect or abuse, adhering to the companys
Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and PREVENT policies
and procedures.
