Overview
Role summary: The post‑holder will provide general medical services managing 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. Main purpose of the role: To support the GP partners, to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse patient list. (This is a PMS Practice). Responsibilities
Make self‑available for surgeries, telephone consultations and queries, triage, home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, and dealing with queries, patient test results, referral letters (NHS/private), paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner as per the practice timetable. Make professional, autonomous decisions regarding presenting problems, whether self‑referred or referred from other health‑care workers within the organisation. Record clear and contemporaneous IT‑based consultation notes to agreed standards. Collect data for audit purposes. Compile and issue computer‑generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible. Prescribe in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines. Undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care. Other Responsibilities
Maintain awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines (prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF assessment of the Practice). Commit to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based best practice. Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation. Help develop computer‑based patient records. Attend training, practice meetings and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate. Meet all tight timescales and deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure the Practice meets quality standards and receives designated funding (e.g. quarterly enhanced services returns, annual QOF audit). 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 & 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 people's 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 professional development requirements are met, the post‑holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, including participation in an annual individual performance review, annual GP appraisal and 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
Alert other team members to issues of clinical governance, quality and risk. 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 team performance. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources, contributing to overall team‑working of the Practice and putting the needs of the Practice first. Communication
Communicate effectively with other team members. Communicate effectively with patients and carers. Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly. Planning & 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 own work; participate in audit where appropriate; work with the Partners and Management Team to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, budgets and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare; contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are or will be required of GP Practices now and in the future.
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