Job responsibilities
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.
Organisational Values / Objectives
The goals of Bromley GP Alliance
are to work strategically with all Bromley practices, to help secure the best
services for patients whilst working together, to support the member practices
in the challenges of a changing NHS. Bromley
GP Alliance aims to improve the morale of general practice in Bromley, by
sharing expertise, services and supporting its workforce. The Alliance will make a positive impact on
medical services in Bromley, by working closely with the CCG, local NHS trusts,
local providers and patient groups, to improve the delivery of healthcare to
the local population.
Key Relationships
Care Homes across Borough of Bromley
Patients, family members and carers
Secondary Care and Community colleagues
External Organisations:
St
Christophers Hospice
Bromley
Healthcare
Orpington
Primary Care Network (PCN)
Job
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.
Duties and Responsibilities
In accordance with the practice
timetable, as agreed, the post holder will make themselves available to
undertake a variety of duties, including visiting of homes, telephone &
Video consultations, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with
queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.
Provide proactive care, supporting and
improving the health and wellbeing of the population.
Provide accessible care: providing a
personalised, responsive, timely, flexible and accessible service.
Making professional, autonomous
decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self -referred or
referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
Screening patients for disease risk
factors and early signs of illness
Provide clinical care using expert
knowledge and developed clinical skills in assessing, implementing, and
monitoring patients to ensure that the quality of patient care is maintained at
the highest standard.
Recording clear and contemporaneous
consultation notes to agreed standards.
Undertake clinical letters / summary
dictation.
Ensure the principles of clinical
governance and risk management are applied to clinical practice.
Awareness of and compliance with all
relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. KPIs, 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.
Ensuring death certificates are
completed in a timely manner and in line with the Medical Examiner &
Registrars legal requirements.
Signing of death certificates and
cremation documentation. Should the post holder leave the employ of the
practice and a patient dies within 2 weeks of the post holders departure,
should the post holder be the last person who has seen the patient they will be
required to complete the necessary paperwork within a week of such request.
Education and Experience
Full GMC registration
MBBS or Equivalent medical degree
MRCGP
Inclusion on the performers list
Personal/Professional Development
Participate in an annual
individual performance review, including taking responsibility for
maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional
development
Participate in any training
programme implemented by the executive team
Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources.
Assess own performance and
development and take accountability for own actions, either
directly or under supervision
Communication
Demonstrate interpersonal skills
when dealing with all levels of staff across the BGPA using persuasion, tact
and reassurance where necessary.
Handle confidential patient
material in a sensitive and discrete fashion in compliance with Bromley GP Alliance
policy and procedure.
To be able to influence, motivate
and involve individuals and teams to reach necessary performance target
expectations.
Liaise with other departments and
members of the Bromley GP Alliance and other organisations to ensure the smooth
running of the office and to assisting the functioning of the team.
The post holder is required to
follow Bromley GP Alliance policies and procedures which are regularly updated
including:
Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information
Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information
about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the
Data Protection Act of 2018. Post holders must not, without prior permission,
disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff
has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person those staff
will be liable to dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 2018 also
renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised
disclosure of information. Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005,
post holders must apply the Bromley GP Alliances FOI procedure if they receive
a written request for information.
Equal Opportunities
Post holders must at all times fulfil their responsibilities with
regard to the Bromley GP Alliances Equal Opportunities Policy and equality
laws.
Health and Safety
All post holders have a responsibility, under the Health and
Safety at Work Act (1974) and subsequently published regulations, to ensure
that the Trusts health and safety policies and procedures are complied with to
maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors and employees.
Infection Control
All post holders have a personal obligation to act to reduce
healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). They must attend mandatory training
in Infection Control and be compliant with all measures required by the Trust
to reduce HCAIs. All post holders must comply with the Bromley GP Alliance infection screening and immunisation policies as well as be
familiar with the Trusts Infection Control Policies, including those that
apply to their duties, such as Hand Decontamination Policy, Personal Protective
Equipment Policy, safe procedures for using aseptic techniques and safe
disposal of sharps.
Risk Management
All post holders have a responsibility to report risks such as
clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly. They are expected to
be familiar with the Trusts use of risk assessments to predict and control
risk, as well as the incident reporting system for learning from mistakes and
near misses in order to improve services. Post holders must also attend
training identified by their manager or stated by the Trust to be mandatory.
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
Post holders have a general responsibility for safeguarding
children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for
ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Smoking Policy
It is the Trusts policy to promote health. Smoking, therefore, is
actively discouraged. It is illegal within Trust buildings and vehicles.
Review of this Job Description
This job description is intended as an outline of the general
areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the
organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder.
