Job summary
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The post-holder will manage a caseload and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
Clinical responsibilities:
1. In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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 within the organisation
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 consultation with patients and in line with current 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
10. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
11. Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
12. 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:
13. Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, QOF, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
14. A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
15. Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
16. Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
17. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
Attending training andevents organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
18. newly qualified or experienced
Skills and values
Essential
19. competent, caring & compassionate values
20. committed to patient care and the NHS
21. team player