PCN ARRS GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose/Summary

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 themself 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
• 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 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 within the organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and 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 and 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Eligible to practice independently in the UK License to practice with GMC MRCGP Registration with medical defence organisation Eligibility for the local performers list
• - Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Other

Essential

• - Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• - Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• - Effective time management (planning and organising)
• - Good interpersonal skills
• - Problem solving and analytical skills
• - Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• - Understanding of the audit process
• - Understanding of clinical risk management
• - Self Motivation
• - Holds a full driving licence and has access to a car, as there is a requirement to travel between practices.

Experience

Essential

• - Good IT skills
• - Team player, motivated, confident
• - Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• - Able to work under pressure independently and within the primary care team.
• - Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• - Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• - Flexibility and willingness to learn new skills
• - Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• - Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• - Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• - Problem solving & analytical skills
• - Ability to maintain confidentiality
• - Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
• - Experience of EMIS Clinical System
• - Excellent communication skills
• - Broad primary care clinical knowledge and expertise
• - Ability to handle a busy and at times complex clinical caseload

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nuneaton & Bedworth Primary Care Network

Address

Redroofs Surgery

31 Coton Road

Nuneaton

Warwickshire

CV11 5TW

Employer's website

https://www.nuneatonandbedworthpcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)