Job responsibilities
Provide safe, evidence-based, individualised,
and holistic care to patients and their families, developing where appropriate
an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and
self-care.
Promote health and well-being through the use
of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication
skills.
Refer patients directly to other
services and agencies as appropriate.
Work with healthcare colleagues to ensure that
National Service Frameworks (eg Coronary Heart Disease, Older People, Diabetes, Mental Health, Asthma, COPD) are being delivered.
Work with multi-disciplinary team within the
Practice to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
Contribute to the practice achieving its
quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service
delivery e.g. QOF and enhanced services.
Works at the forefront of practice innovation
and supports the identification of community health needs. Helps to develop and
advance primary care services for the benefit of patients, carers and
communities
Seeks to develop an area of special interest
within the practice to support improved outcomes for practice population.
Audits outcomes against standards and
initiates learning change where necessary.
To actively implement safeguarding protocols
for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to
escalate any concerns promptly.
Be aware of practice-based commissioning and
contribute to current initiatives to improve existing patient services.
Embrace IT and all computer services available
in practice and nationally to aid communication and education of patients
To carry out all duties in a professional
manner and adhere to all protocols, policies and procedural guidelines at all
times.
Further more:
a. assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and asappropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribingmedications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national)and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessaryreferrals to other members of the primary care team;
b. manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flagsand underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action;
c. use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation,complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope ofpractice;
d. actively take a personalised care approach and population centred careapproach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person;and
e. complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professionalclinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care,for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.