Job responsibilities
WHITE MEDICAL GROUP
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB SUMMARY
Job Title Salaried
GP
Salary Competitive
Location The premises of White
Medical Group
Hours of
Work 8 sessions per week
(Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday)
In
addition it is expected that the successful candidate participates in our
extended hours rota currently early mornings from 7am (Tuesday to Friday)
Holiday
Entitlement 6 weeks per year plus 1 week of study
leave
Contract Term Fixed
term for 6 months.
Accountability Clinically responsible to the partners of White Medical Group and managerially responsible to the
partners of White Medical Group via the Practice Manager.
Job Summary To
provide the full range of general practitioner services, including on call
availability and extended opening hours, to the patients of White Medical
Group.
MAIN
RESPONSIBILITIES
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 practice
timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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
- Developing care plans for health in
consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management
protocols
- 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
- 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.
Other responsibilities
- 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.
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 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
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 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.
Other Information
We do not allow
employees of White Medical Group to be registered patients of the Practice due
to the potential conflicts of interest that may arise. If the successful
candidate is a registered patient of White Medical Group, they will be given 3
months to make alternative arrangements and register elsewhere. Failure to do
so would result in automatic removal from our patient list.