Job responsibilities
Conduct comprehensive assessments of
patients to determine their healthcare needs and develop appropriate treatment
plans.
Prescribe and review medications for
therapeutic effectiveness, ensuring they align with evidence-based practices
and national guidelines.
Work closely with doctors, nurse practitioners
and pharmacists to ensure coordinated and safe patient care.
Manage both acute and chronic conditions,
integrating drug and non-drug treatment methods into care plans.
Conduct health screening and preventative
care measures for the enrolled patient population
Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient
records, documenting assessments, treatment plans and outcomes.
Provide health education and advice to
patients regarding their conditions, treatment options and medication
management
Complete management of episodes of care and high
level complex clinical decision making.
Provide clinical support to Practice Nurses, HCA
and other colleagues as required.
Provide clinical support for colleagues for the
following: wound care advice, INR dosing, BP monitoring and titration,
contraception advice (list is not exhaustive).
Work within broader scope of the practice, able
to lead in situations that are complex and unpredictable and offer supervision
to others.
Work with the clinical team to provide
appropriate staffing on both a daily and longer-term basis.
Support the Practice Manager to ensure Systm1 scheduled
rota appointments align with QOF requirements.
Attend monthly clinical meetings, provide clinical
service updates as required.
Manage patients presenting with a range of acute
and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to
patients.
Evaluate and implement individual specialist
treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
Identify, manage and support patients at risk of
developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients'
health.
Run Minor illness clinics.
Provide wound care.
Provide specialist clinics delivering patient
care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
To complete medication authorisations for
patients.
Prescription signing.
Provide general clinical advice for queries for
all members of the team.
Take calls from outside members of the
multi-disciplinary teams, work with external agencies.
Participate in the review of significant and
near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis.
Clinical Quality and Patient Experience
Address the concerns of patients and services
users and respond to their suggestions for local quality improvements in
services.
Work with the Practice Manager and clinical
teams to ensure the effective resolution of complaints and any subsequent
learning, undertaking risk management and reviewing patient experience as necessary.
Act as a positive clinical role model. Lead by example to motivate others, ensuring
the highest standard of care.
To work with the clinical team to ensure the
standards of cleanliness and hygiene in their areas comply with policies and
procedures.
Support the development of protocols, process
and best practice to ensure the highest standard of care.
Maintain accurate clinical records in
conjunction with extant legislation.
Support on CQC compliance for clinical best
practice, ensuring process and policies align to CQC compliance standards.
Support the Practice Manager with developing and
maintaining robust CQC standards, reviewing current processes and policies.
Work with the Practice Manager on Quality and
compliance standards, issues and risk.
Safeguarding
To support the delivery of Safeguarding Adults
and Children Governance framework and processes within the organisation. Encourage the clinical team to promptly escalate
highly complex safeguarding cases to the Practice Manager.
Equality & Diversity
The postholder will support the equality,
diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a
way that recognizes 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 nonjudgmental and
respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development
The postholder 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, 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
Training may
need be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.
Quality
The postholder 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 postholder should recognize the
importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate
effectively with other team members.
Communicate
effectively with patients and carers.
Confidentiality:
While 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 postholder 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
All employees are subject to the requirements
of the Health & Safety at Work Act. The postholder is required to ensure,
as an employee, that his/her work methods do not endanger other people or
themselves. The postholder 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.
General Terms and Conditions
All employees
are employed on an initial assessment basis.
All employees
must comply with the practices opportunities policy, and must not discriminate
on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national grounds, sex, marital
status, disability or any other grounds that cannot be shown to be justifiable.
This Job
Description may be reviewed in the light of changed service needs and
developments. Any changes will be fully discussed with the postholder. The
postholder may be required to carry out other duties appropriate to the grade
of the post.
