Full-time or Part-time Salaried GP

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE

• PARTNERS (Clinically)
• THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
• HOURS: 6 - 8 SESSIONS per week.
• Salary: £10,700 per session

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.

Clinical

Responsibilities

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the
• post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties
• including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting
• patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with
• queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to

presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare

workers within the organisation

Assessing

the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening

patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

In consultation with patients and in line with

current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

Providing

counselling and health education

Admitting

or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care

providers as appropriate

Recording

clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting

data for audit purposes

Compiling

and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding

hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing

in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever

this is clinically appropriate

In

general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and

responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other

Responsibilities within the Organisation

Awareness

of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g.

prescribing,

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.

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

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

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 and

Diversity

The post-holder

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 non-judgmental and

respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional

Development

• In addition to
• maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study
• days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP
• are met, the post-holder 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.

Quality

The post-holder

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 post-holder

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

Recognize

peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond

accordingly.

Contribution to the 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.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible .