General Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY:

As a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, the post holder will provide clinical assessment and diagnosis to patients requirements (a significant proportion of whom have a history of substance misuse) and make timely decisions regarding future management. They will also provide a highly specialist resource to other healthcare staff, patients and carers and have active involvement in Clinical Governance/ Effectiveness activities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Managerial

To manage the patient caseload in partnership with other practitioners to ensure quality outcomes for patients and carers.

To act as an accountable general practitioner, managing clinical care and facilitating general management through partnership with the service management team.

Leadership

To provide medical leadership as appropriate to the wider healthcare team requirements.

To identify and utilise appropriately best practice through benchmarking and clinical guidelines.

To develop positive collaborative working relationships across all areas of the care team, including the substance misuse team, mental health team and primary care team.

To undertake appropriate clinical risk assessments and implement management strategies for risk identified.

To be actively involved and engaged in practice and wider team meetings and forum to promote communication and development.

To play an active role in multidisciplinary discussions around complex case management

Clinical

To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and type of health care needs.

To respond to medical/health problems presented by patients on the registered list including history taking, diagnosis, investigation, treatment and referral as appropriate.

To provide on-call and other services within the prison as appropriate

To provide management of long term conditions in line with national guidelines and pathways

To prescribe generically for patients as appropriate to need and if none generics utilised be able to provide appropriate clinical rationale with support from Medicines Management team.

Regularly review medications and monitor repeat prescribing

To provide appropriate health promotion and preventative health care advice to all patients.

To engage with the Practice Plus Group Recovery Model

Non-Clinical

To carry out appropriate administrative and other duties in line with the needs of the Offender Healthcare services, including referral to other services, maintenance of records, managing registers etc

To maintain appropriate clinical records in line with professional code and requirements utilising appropriate READ coding.

To identify ways to promote opportunities for patient involvement in service development and evaluation.

To work flexibly across the healthcare service within the prison.

To work in line with appropriate Practice Plus Group and local commissioning policies/procedures including human resources, safeguarding vulnerable adults etc.

Training & Education

To provide appropriate health education and advice to patients to enable self management and choice.

To undertake and complete appraisal process on yearly basis.

To undertake appropriate training to meet personal and mandatory educational needs and practice development needs.

To undertake Practice/Personal development, in line with CPD objectives and record activity.

To deliver practice development projects in the practice as agreed with practice staff and Practice Plus Group Managers and Directors.

To share and disseminate acquired knowledge with all team members through in development sessions and clinical governance meetings or critical incident reviews.

Clinical Governance/Research and Audit

To work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and the entire team to ensure that effective clinical governance is incorporated into day to day practice.

To undertake appropriate clinical audit in practice to identify clinical quality issues and markers and define processes to improve clinical outcomes and ensure the prison delivers care in line with identified quality outcomes.

To take part in appropriate R&D and audit processes as agreed in line with Practice Plus Group primary care division priorities.

To develop and implement as appropriate guidelines, policies and procedures as required.

To utilise latest available evidence to shape and organise services to reflect needs of population.

Communication

To develop and maintain high levels of communication with patients, ensuring effective care delivery.

To promote effective communication processes between all team members to enable good working practices.

To maintain communication processes with acute and other colleagues and partners in care to ensure care delivery.

To actively engage with Practice Plus Group supervision and support processes to ensure equity of service delivery and target

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

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Additional Criteria

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Practice Plus Group

Address

HMP Thameside

Griffin Manor Way

London

SE28 0FJ

Employer's website

https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)