Job responsibilities
Shaftesbury Medical Centre
Job Description for Salaried GP
Job Title: Salaried GP
Accountable to: GP Partners
Clinical Lead GP: Dr Musa
Line Manager: Practice/Service Manager
Responsible for: Self
Hours: To be confirmed
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.
Principle 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 surgery consultations, duty GP, mother and baby checks, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, pathology results, paperwork and docman/correspondence in a timely fashion
- To be able to consult safely and competently in a variety of modes such as F2F, telephone, video or online.
- 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 including using appropriate Read Codes
- 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.
- When required assist with private medical reports/examinations in contracted hours.
- When required assist with weekly ward round of Nursing Home.
Additional Role
- Participating in meeting and completing QOF targets.
- Participating and assisting with Prescribing Audits.
- Participating and assisting with Enhanced/LIS Services.
- When required Participate in Extended Hours Rota following mutual agreement
- Assisting with the supervision of GP Trainees.
- Any other reasonable role to support the Practice and Partners
- Attendance of Practice Meetings
- Attendance of Clinical Meetings
Personal Qualities Flexible
Hardworking
Awareness and work within limitations and experience
Excellent Communication Skills
Team Player
Manage workload and time efficient
IT skills Windows, Email, MS Office
Proficient in EMIS web
Clean Driving Licence
Role of Conduct: Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
Maintain professional behaviour and follow GMC Code of conduct.
Adhere to all Practice Protocols and Staff Handbook.
Adhere to Practice and Formulary Prescribing Policies and Guidelines
Polite and respectful.
Essential Training: Basic Life Support training.
Adult and Child Safeguarding Level 3.
Education/Professional
Development: Participate with in-house staff annual appraisals.
Participate in any mandatory or additional training.
Participate in Practice Development Plan.
Attend the Practice Staff Meetings and contribute to Practice
Development.
Attend and contribute to weekly Clinical Meetings.
Personnel: To act at all times in the best interest of the surgery, staff and
patients.
Fully registered with GMC and keeping up to date with Revalidation
To participate in DBS checks (Disclosure Barring Service)
Membership of Professional Indemnity eg MDU
To be registered with NHS England Performers List.
To Adhere to Practice Health & Safety Policy.
To Adhere to Practice Infection Control Policy.
Date Produced: August 2014 (Updated March 2019, September 2020, May 2021).
Produced by: Dr Musa
This job description will be reviewed annually/on a regular basis and as such is subject to change during the interim period.
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