Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities:
We're looking to hire for a part-time role with four to
eight sessions per week
Role Summary:
The post-holder will manage a patient caseload and deal with
a wide range of health needs, ensuring the highest standards of care for all
registered and temporary patients.
Main Purpose of Job:
To support the GP partners in the Practice to manage a busy,
interesting clinical caseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to
take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment,
staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare
services for a diverse patient list, including Directed Enhanced Services
commissioning, patient participation and health promotion.
Responsible to:
The Practice Partners.
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, telephone consultations and queries, visiting
patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with
queries, paperwork, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to
presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care
workers within the Practice.
- 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.
- Collecting data for audit purposes.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat
prescriptions (avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible).
- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary
(or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
- Ensuring that all work carried out which carries a private
fee is properly recouped and accounted for; e.g. Medical Reports, Insurance
reports, Private letters to third Parties etc.
- 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 WITH THE PRACTICE:
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 Practice.
Contributing to the development of computer-based patient
records.
Contributing to the summarising of patient records and
accurate Read-Coding of 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 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:
In addition to maintaining continued education through
attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that
professional development requirements 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 a Practice based annual individual
performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of
own personal and/or professional development.
Maintaining skills and knowledge for CPD and accreditation
via the annual GP appraisal process.
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 people needs for alternative methods of
communication and respond accordingly.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE
PLANNING AND 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 their own work.
- Participate in clinical audits when requested or where
appropriate.
The above list serves to illustrate the scope and
responsibilities of the post and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of
duties. You will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by the
development of this role as the practice develops, and the overall business
objectives of the practice change.
