Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)

HOURS: 6 SESSIONS PER WEEK ACROSS 3 WHOLE DAYS (Tue, Thu, Fri)

Job Summary:

The post-holder will manage a usual doctor list and deal with a wide range of health needs associated with general practice, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

The post-holder will manage a usual doctor list and deal with a wide range of health needs associated with general practice, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice rota, 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
• Participate in the duty/triage doctor role within the practice
• 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
• 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 Practice:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the practice
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records, collection of QOF data and clinical coding of 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 re: 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, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will 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
• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role
• Undertaking periodic infection control training
• Reporting potential risks identified
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

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 that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development:

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 including statutory and mandatory modules
• Appraisal and revalidation
• 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 recognise 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

Knowledge

Essential

• Good knowledge and understanding of:
• GMS contractual responsibilities
• CQC requirements
• NICE
• Care act including safeguarding children, young adults and vulnerable adults
• Equality & diversity
• Health & safety
• Computerised clinical system
• Must be IT literate, particularly with Microsoft Office functions

Desirable

• QOF, enhanced services, public health and CCG contracts
• Medicines management
• EMIS Web
• DOCMAN 10
• Lexacom
• NHS Mail

Relationships with Patients

Essential

• Demonstrates empathy & concern
• Demonstrates a respect for patients privacy & dignity
• Flexible approach to service delivery
• Committed approach to development
• Ability to demonstrate experience and examples of providing high quality care

Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive experience of working in General Practice to include:
• Face-to-face & telephone consulting
• Home Visits
• All aspects of primary care medicine
• Emergency care
• Record keeping
• Diagnosis and treatment planning
• Prescribing
• Medical Reports

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate fair and inclusive leadership

Qualifications

Essential

• GMC recognised degree in medicine
• Completion of General Practice specialist training
• Full GMC registration
• On the National Performers List
• Enhanced DBS check
• Full, clean driving licence

Desirable

• Specialty qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and learning

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).