Main Duties & Responsibilities Clinical Responsibilities In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion Triage patients presenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person 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 and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements Delivering enhanced services Check, manage & process patient test results Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines 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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis 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 summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate and suitable and relevant for your role Keep up to date with current evidenced based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and national frameworks Contribute to education and training of trainee members of staff and students Attending and contributing to practice and PCN meetings Please see attached job description/person specification for full details.