Care Home GP

• The GP Practice holds overall clinical responsibility, while the care home GP is responsible for making clinical decisions based on the patient's needs. This involves sharing clinical responsibility for the resident with the GP practice where they are registered. • Conducting the monthly MDT in person in the care home setting, supporting person centred holistic assessments of care home residents. • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, providing high quality innovative clinical practice. Be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge. • Manages undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action. • Refer patients to hospital clinics for further assessment or treatment or alternative primary care clinics. • Seeking advice and guidance from secondary care professionals. • Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards. • Supporting pharmacy professionals in delivering Structured Medication Review, covert medication plans, optimising medications and deprescribing. Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines. • Establish strong working relationships with nursing and management staff in care homes to encourage good clinical practice. • Use effective communication to advise care home staff in their support of the resident, especially those with complex needs and comorbidities, including the promotion of health, prevention of ill-health and the self-management of their health within their limitations. • Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person, their carers, and families in collaboration with pharmacy professionals and care coordinators. • Communicate complex and sensitive information concerning a patients medical condition effectively to patients/carers, recognising that sometimes there are barriers to understanding. • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies, including ANPs, social care services, mental health teams to facilitate appropriate and comprehensive advanced care planning and to devise specialist programmes of care. • Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct. • Recognises situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of the individual and act on the findings including raising safeguarding concerns to local authority. • Ensures that care given is supported by the best available evidence and local policies and procedures. Job description Job responsibilities • The GP Practice holds overall clinical responsibility, while the care home GP is responsible for making clinical decisions based on the patient's needs. This involves sharing clinical responsibility for the resident with the GP practice where they are registered. • Conducting the monthly MDT in person in the care home setting, supporting person centred holistic assessments of care home residents. • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, providing high quality innovative clinical practice. Be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge. • Manages undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action. • Refer patients to hospital clinics for further assessment or treatment or alternative primary care clinics. • Seeking advice and guidance from secondary care professionals. • Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards. • Supporting pharmacy professionals in delivering Structured Medication Review, covert medication plans, optimising medications and deprescribing. Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines. • Establish strong working relationships with nursing and management staff in care homes to encourage good clinical practice. • Use effective communication to advise care home staff in their support of the resident, especially those with complex needs and comorbidities, including the promotion of health, prevention of ill-health and the self-management of their health within their limitations. • Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person, their carers, and families in collaboration with pharmacy professionals and care coordinators. • Communicate complex and sensitive information concerning a patients medical condition effectively to patients/carers, recognising that sometimes there are barriers to understanding. • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies, including ANPs, social care services, mental health teams to facilitate appropriate and comprehensive advanced care planning and to devise specialist programmes of care. • Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct. • Recognises situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of the individual and act on the findings including raising safeguarding concerns to local authority. • Ensures that care given is supported by the best available evidence and local policies and procedures.