Job responsibilities
Skills Required:
The ability to work
effectively in an area with a high elderly patient percentage and high disease
prevalence.
IT skills and a
complete understanding of the national GMS contract with the importance of data
collection and coding for earnings essential.
Experience of SystmOne clinical system helpful but additional training
can be offered
Clinical responsibilities:
In accordance with
the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self
available to undertake a variety of duties including telephone triage, 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
Data recording to the highest standards for
completion of QOF/Enhanced Service work is of utmost importance.
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
In consultation
with patients and in line with current practice disease management
protocols, developing care plans for health
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
Compiling and
issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding
hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
Prescribing in
accordance with the ICB 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.
Other responsibilities
within the organisation:
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.
Contributing to the development of the practice
through the assessment of new initiatives from both a clinical and financial
perspective.
Quality and finance
The post holder will strive to maintain
quality and income to 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 and efficiency
As income is very dependent on QOF
and LES/DES work, it is imperative that the doctor can demonstrate a full
understanding of the data required for efficient running of these systems
Communication:
The post-holder
should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and
will strive to:
Communicate
effectively with other team members
Communicate
effectively with patients and carers
Recognize peoples
needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Confidentiality:
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 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 correction of 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
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.
