Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of
the Practice Manager or GP Partner, dependent on current and evolving Practice
workload and staffing levels:
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, checking and
actioning lab results 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
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.
Home Visits
Will be required to carry out home visits as detailed in the
home visit protocol, usually carried out after morning surgery.
Duty Doctor
The post-holder will be required to participate in on-calls
as part of a rota
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
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.
GENERAL AND CLERICAL/ADMIN DUTIES
The post-holder will be required to ensure that all relevant
administration is completed during normal working hours between 9.00 am and
6.30pm.
Certain NHS and non-NHS related reports for the patients on
your list will be an expected requirement.
There is an expectation for reports to be completed in a
timely and appropriate manner to meet the needs of the practices registered
patients.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND RECORD KEEPING
Observe a strict code of confidentiality at all times.
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.
COMMUNICATION
Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of
communication and respond accordingly.
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
Manage and 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
Support and work effectively with individuals in other
agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources and that
of the team.
Ensure that policies, protocols, guidance, procedures and
training offered are followed at all times
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The post holder will participate as necessary and with
appropriate cover in any training programme implemented by the practice as part
of this employment, and seek to continually improve their skills and knowledge.
Such training will include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal/or
professional development.
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and
performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are
undertaking similar work.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
To comply with the following: -
Employment Policy & Procedures
The post holder will ensure that they read the Staff
Handbook and related employment policies and procedures.
Health, Safety and Fire Regulations
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of
promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection
control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, and the practice
infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will
not be limited to):
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to practice guidelines
Awareness of national standards of infection control and
cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good
practice guidelines
Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the
specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and
clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate
circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
Management of the full range of infection control procedures
in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual
infectious circumstances)
Hand hygiene standards for self and others
Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
Management and advice relating to infection control and
clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols
across the practice
Active observation of current working practices across the
practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,
ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are
identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical
and patient process
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to
infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand cleansing
facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical
working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the
responsible manager
Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
Maintenance of own clean working environment
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining
work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health
and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally
clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other
work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance
of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with responsible managers
Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum
twice annually)
Correct waste and instrument management including handling,
segregation, and container use
Maintenance of sterile environments
Equality and diversity
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.
Any legislation that directly and indirectly relates to your
employment.
Contribution to the implementation of services
Apply practice policies, standards and guidance; Discuss
with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will
affect own work and seek to continually improve the overall effectiveness of
duties undertaken.
