GP on Triage

Job description

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will:

Hold your own list of patients.

Make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Be required to be on-call for clinically urgent and emergency problems and consequently be included in the doctors on-call- rota.

Be required to make home visits for your own patient list within the session time specified

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate

Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well as wider guidance such as that from NICE

Ensure appropriate follow up of patients

Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards

Collect data for audit purposes

Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible

Prescribing generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance, Good Prescribing Practice

Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care

Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council and Department of Health

Play a leading role in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key performance indicator targets.

Take lead responsibility for targets and services allocated, such as QOF areas and Enhanced Services.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key Performance Indicator targets

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

Attendance at regular in-house partnership, locality, governance, educational meetings and training as well as events with other agencies as appropriate

Assistance with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate

Must act in accordance with the partnership agreement

Other duties or activities as agreed by the partners

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge/Qualifications/Experience :
• Qualified GP GMC full registration
• Membership of recognised defence union (MPS/MDU) MRCGP
• Currently on a performers list
• Never been removed from a performers list for a detrimental reason
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness Evidence of recent self-directed learning or development
• Knowledge of the current issues facing primary care and the wider NHS
• Experience Experience of Microsoft Office applications
• Experience of GP Clinical IT systems EMIS /Web experience / DOCMAN

Desirable

• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Initiative and drive
• Pleasant and articulate
• Able to work under pressure
• Self motivated and positive
• Empathetic, honest, caring
• Adaptable and forward looking
• Enthusiastic and energetic
• Diplomatic and considered
• Hard working, willing and flexible
• Observance of strict confidentiality
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense

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

The House Partnership

Address

Greystone House Practice

99 Station Road

Redhill

RH1 1EB

Employer's website

https://www.greystonesurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)