Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post:ARRS GP
Reporting to: PCN care home team Manager
Accountable to:PCN Care Home Clinical Lead
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The post-holder will manage a
clinical caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs for patients
living in a Rushcliffe older persons care home and registered with a
Rushcliffe GP practice. Responsibilities will reflect requirements of the NHS
GP Contracts, and the Enhanced Health in Care Homes contract and as such may be
subject to change as services adapt.
Clinical Responsibilities
This role is part of a wider
multidisciplinary care home team. Responsibilities are in accordance with the care
home team case load and clinical ledgers. Clinical consultations will require
sound history taking, clinical observations, examination, diagnosis and
development of a treatment plan with safety netting. It will also include structured
medication reviews and Respect planning.
Assessing the health care needs
of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
Recording clear and
contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, also articulating
actions and information to the care home residents, carers and the aligned GP.
The role also requires the
postholder to work, as part of the multi-disciplined team, but also with the
care home staff and aligned GP practice to ensure continuity for residents, and
to deliver best practice care.
Clinical Responsibilities
Providing clinical consultations
to care home residents.
Prescribing in accordance with
the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically
appropriate. This will also include completing structured medication reviews,
and deprescribing where appropriate and clinically safe to do so.
Completing Respect plans to
facilitate patient end of life wishes, and reduce unwarranted hospital
admissions.
Care home residents may not have
the mental capacity to make their own informed decisions and may require best
interest decisions, or discussions with family or their nominated power of
attorney.
Ensuring clinical consultations
and interactions are clearly documented on the clinical notes in a timely
manner, including read-coding patient data,
Attending training and events
organised by the practice as
appropriate.
The postholder will also work as
part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Administering COVID, flu and RSV as
directed by the national program to care home residents.
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 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 work in
accordance with health and safety, infection control and other core practice
health & safety policies. This will include (but will not be limited to):
Work in accordance with the lone
working policy
Infection, prevention and control
policy
Safe management of the specimens
process including collection, labelling, storage and transport arrangements
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
Management and advice relating to
infection control
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
Maintenance of own clean working
environment
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 in care homes when assessing
patients.
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
Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources.
Communication
Communicate effectively with
other team members
Communicate effectively with
patients and carers
Recognize
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond
accordingly.
