Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY:
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.
CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- In
accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves
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 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
- Developing
care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice
disease management protocols
- 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
- 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.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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
The post
holder will:
- 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
& Safety
The
post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management
of their own and others 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 will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness
of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /
contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- 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
- Correct
personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of
PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,
staff and patients.
- Management
of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and
extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious
circumstances)
- Hand
hygiene standards for self and others
- Managing
directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management
and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care
protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- 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
- Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- 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
- 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
- Safe
management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance
of own clean working environment
- 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
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection
hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping
own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying
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
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct
waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container
use
- Maintenance
of sterile environments
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children.
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
PREP 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
- 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.
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