Job responsibilities
Ammonite Health Partnership
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties of the post are to provide a full range
of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services
(Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed
appropriate. There may a requirement to be on call for clinically urgent and
emergency problems in accordance with the associated job plan. The post holder
is expected to support the partnership of Ammonite Health Partnership in providing
all services outlined in the PMS Core Contract and also in the aims and
objectives of the Practice.
The post holder is expected to support and input
into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice,
quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review
and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice.
The post holder is encouraged to utilise and
develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as child
health surveillance, family planning training etc, if approved by the CCG. This
will be subject to presentation of the appropriate certificates and update of
relevant courses.
The post holder is expected to maintain and keep
good standards of computerised clinical records at all times. The post holder
is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.
Scheduling in the Job Plan
(a) Clinical duties:
You are contracted to provide (TBA) notional sessions each week
which can be on any day Monday to Friday normally between the hours of 8.00 am
and 19:00 hours, but these times may be varied if the practice is required by
the CCG at any time to deliver early or late sessions or weekend working.
(b) Increasingly the practice is called upon to
provide telephone and online consultations. These may be in addition to your
face-to-face sessions according to the access needs of the practice.
(c) Appointments are scheduled at 10-minute
intervals and you will provide 14 face to face consultations in the morning
session and 14 in the afternoon session, plus you will take your fair share of
extra consultations (fair share with partners).
(d) You will be required to make home visits for
your own patient list within the session time specified plus you will take your
fair share of extra visits (with partners) in the absence of colleagues.
(e) You will be expected to deal on a daily basis
with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your
administrative time.
(f) You are expected to follow up results, x-rays,
correspondence that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries
related to your consultations)
(g) Clinical
duties will include seeing people with acute conditions, ongoing chronic
conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF
(h) You are expected to follow-up results, X-rays
and correspondence in the absence of your (designated) buddy.
Administration/paperwork:
(a) The Partners believe that the job plan allows
sufficient time in the job plan to complete all administrative duties related
to your clinical work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at
different rates.
(b) Referrals should be completed on a daily basis
in line with practice policy.
(c) Investigations and referrals should be
completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriate
timescales.
(d) Results are normally communicated either
electronically or by letter, you will be expected to action these on a daily
basis for your own patients. You will also be expected to deal with
correspondence addressed to you.
(e) Reports: You will be expected to complete
examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the PMS
contract on patients known to you. Additionally you may be expected to complete
reports requested by other parties such as insurance companies, OFSTED and
employers.
(f) Computerised records: You will be expected to
use appropriate processes for computerised record keeping including
computerised clinical templates and protocols as well as ensuring that
significant information as determined by the practice is recorded accurately
e.g. all QOF domains. You will take part in reconciling information input periodically.
Primary care team meetings:
Formal or informal and essential to the delivery of
team based care, such meetings are held from time to time at the surgery and
you will have a close working relationship with the primary care team on a
daily basis. You will be expected to attend such meetings.
Practice Meeting and Personal Development:
The practice is committed to the highest standards
of evidence based medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will
be expected to participate in discussions on clinical practice standards,
developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners,
audit, significant event analysis, meetings with colleagues in the locality,
Primary Care Trust etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to
clinical workload may be required
Personal CPD (continuing professional development)
time:
This may include a mix of in-house meetings and
events, time away from the practice, either in private study, attending educational
events or time in lieu of attending educational events outside of normal
working hours.
Trainees
You will be expected to provide support for any
students or trainees in the practice.
Practice development
You may be expected to become responsible for
particular areas of practice development.
QOF/Enhanced Services
You may be expected to be responsible for an area
of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
