Job Purpose: You will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting. You will ensure the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients at any of the sites which you will be supporting. In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Main Responsibilities and Duties
Clinical responsibilities
1. In accordance with the practice timetable, you will make yourself 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.
2. Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers.
3. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
4. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
5. Developing care plans for health in consultations with patients and in line with current PCN and practice disease management protocols.
6. Providing counselling and health education.
7. Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
8. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
9. Collecting data for audit purposes as requested for support.
10. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
11. Prescribing in accordance with the PCN and practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
Other Responsibilities
1. Awareness of and compliance with all relevant PCN and practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
2. A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
3. As requested, supporting/contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting.
4. Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
5. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
6. Attending training and events organised by the PCN, 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 employees will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, you may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, PCN and practice employees and other healthcare workers.
Health & Safety
You will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the PCN and practices health & safety policy/manual, and the infection control policy and published procedures.
Equality and Diversity
You will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
1. Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with PCN and practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
2. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
3. 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 PCN as part of this employment.
Quality
You will strive to maintain quality within the PCN and practice, and will:
1. Alert other team members both at the PCN and the practices to issues of quality and risk.
2. Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
3. 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.
4. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
5. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
Recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
1. Communicate effectively with other team members.
2. Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
3. Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services
You will apply PCN and practice policies, standards and guidance.
Problem Solving and Decision Making
You will have the ability to make judgement calls on patient care within the standard guidelines and will escalate as needed.
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