Job responsibilities
Job title:
Salaried General Practitioner
Reporting to:
The Partners,
The Practice Business Manager
Sessions: Four
Eight per week
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.
Clinical
Responsibilities:
In
accordance with the Job Plan as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self
available to undertake a variety of duties including 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
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 using the
Practice electronic clinical system
Collecting
data for audit purposes
Compiling
and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
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.
Other Responsibilities within the
Practice:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant
Practice policies/guidelines, eg 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 Practice
Contributing to the development of
computer-based patient records
Contributing to the summarising of patient
records and Read-Coding patient data
Contributing to the Practice achievement of QOF
and other performance targets
Attending training and events organised by the
Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Flexibility Statement
The content of
this Job Description represents an outline of the post only and is therefore
not an exhaustive description of duties and responsibilities. This Job
Description is therefore intended to be flexible and is a working document,
subject to review and amendment, in consultation with the post holder, in light
of changing circumstances or business needs.
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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety
and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
Using personal security systems
within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks
Making effective use of training to
update knowledge and skills
Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and
safe way and free from hazards
Reporting potential risks identified
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 recognises 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:
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 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
Work effectively with individuals in
other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectively manage own time, workload
and resources
Communication:
The post-holder
should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and
will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other
team members
Communicate effectively with patients
and carers
Recognise peoples needs for
alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the Implementation of
Services:
The post-holder
will:
Apply Practice policies, standards
and guidance
Discuss
with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will
affect own work
Participate in audit where
appropriate