Job responsibilities
Reporting
to:
The Practice GP Partners (clinically)
The Practice Manager
(managerially)
Hours
of work:
6 sessions per week (Wed -Fri)
Contract
type:
Part time
Location:
Ribblesdale Medical Practice,
Townside Primary Care Centre Knowsley
Street, Bury, BL9 0SN
Annual leave:
30 days annual
leave plus public/bank holidays & study sessions
(WTE pro rata)
Salary:
£10000 per session
NHS Pension
Scheme
Annual - Achievement
related bonus
Working from
Home session - negotiable
Main purpose of the role:
The
post-holder will support the partners in providing primary medical services,
manage a caseload of patients and deal with a wide range of health needs in a
primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.
This will include any administration associated with these patients, e.g. repeat
prescribing, actioning results, letters and completion of insurance/medical
reports.
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:
- The use of AskMYGP to triage
patient requests
- surgery consultations
- telephone consultations and queries
- visiting patients at home
- checking, reauthorising and signing
repeat prescriptions
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and
repeat prescriptions
- Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or
national guidelines
- dealing with queries
- patient test results
- Completion of patient medical
reports and examinations (e.g. Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice
- Patient medicals e.g.
adoption/fostering/HGV
- Management of referral (NHS/private)
- Management of paperwork 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 organisation;
- Recording clear and contemporaneous
I.T. based consultation notes to the agreed practice standards, including
read coding
- Conducting and supporting the
practice with audits
- 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:
supervision
of trainee doctors and members of the practice nursing team
Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.
prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, Health and Safety, QOF, LCSs and
other practice targets.
A
commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
and maintain a portfolio of work for appraisal and revalidation purposes
Contributing
to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Weekly
attendance at the Practice Meeting
Attendance
at mandatory practice training, practice meetings 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.
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
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 an annual individual performance review, annual GP Appraisal 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 Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk and participate
in Significant Event Analysis reviews
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. He/she will also contribute to the
overall team-working of the Practice putting the needs of the Practice first.
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.
Be
respectful and courteous at all times.
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 audit where appropriate
Work
with the Partners and practice manager to achieve standards of quality,
performance standards, and targets without compromising levels of patient
healthcare
Contribute
towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and
procedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as
directed by NHS England, the local area team and the CCG