General Practitioner

Job responsibilities Clinical responsibilities: • 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 • 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 • Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols • Providing counselling and health education • Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and 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 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 development of computer-based patient records • 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. Job description Job responsibilities Job responsibilities Clinical responsibilities: • 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 • 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 • Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols • Providing counselling and health education • Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and 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 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 development of computer-based patient records • 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.