Job Responsibilities
* Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs.
* Prioritising and triaging the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
* Work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines.
Clinical Responsibilities
* Controls admission and discharge to own caseload through:
* Appropriate comprehensive assessment to include physical, mental, emotional and social health including the use of invasive and non-invasive investigations to establish a diagnosis.
* Prescription of evidence‑based care including medication.
* Developing with the patient and family when appropriate, an ongoing plan for health with an emphasis on prevention and self‑care.
* Follow‑up and evaluation of care.
* Direct referral to and liaison with consultants and other professional agencies.
* Making and accepting referrals within the practice team.
* If qualified to, prescribes according to formulary and competencies.
* Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self‑care.
* A collaborative, supportive and holistic approach.
* To keep accurate patient records on computer system.
Administrative Responsibilities
* Disseminates learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments/courses.
* Manages and assess risk within areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
* Participates in the delivery Chronic Disease Management and in achieving QOF Targets.
* Ensures good communication between you and the team and other members of staff and communicate any changes of ways of working to those affected as appropriate.
* Attends and contributes to Practice Clinical Governance.
* Encourages and ensure team working within the practice.
* To participate in practice clinical audits if required. Acts as a resource to other practice members.
* Uses technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
* Reviews and processes data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Person Specification / Experience
* Must have a past experience of working in a GP surgery.
* Must be a good team worker.
* Good knowledge of common medical conditions encountered in primary care.
* Communication skills needs to be excellent.
* Knowledge of working on the following systems: EMIS, Docman, ICE.
* Must be a Qualified Physician Associate.
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.
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