Salaried GP

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 health care 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, 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.

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

implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and

others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice

health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the

practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include

(but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the

workplace according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of

infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /

professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Providing advice on the correct and safe

management of the specimens process including collection, labelling,

handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport

arrangements

Correct personal use of Personal

Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others,

advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and

patients.

Management of the full range of infection

• control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g.
• pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Managing directly all incidents of
• accidental exposure

Management and advice relating to

infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and

implementation of those protocols across the practice

Active observation of current working

• practices across the practice in relation to infection control,
• cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed
• and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as
• appropriate to the responsible person

Identifying the risks involved in work

activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those

risks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to update

knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others

across the full range of infection control and patient processes

Monitoring practice facilities and

equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is

made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are

sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of

facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

Safe management of sharps use, storage and

disposal

Maintenance of own clean working environment

Using appropriate infection control

procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe

way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where

needed or escalation to responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and

correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately

when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general /

• patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards /
• risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming
• responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
• across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible
• managers

Undertaking periodic infection control

training (minimum twice annually)

Correct waste and instrument management

including handling, segregation, and container use

Maintenance of sterile environments

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

Recognise 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.