Job description
• Clinical
responsibilities:
• In accordance with the practice clinical rota,
as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a
variety of duties, including in practice consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and
dealing with queries, paperwork and online and normal 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
• Providing counselling and health education
•
• 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
• 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
• Participate in
incentives such as Enhanced Services and QoF as directed
• Attending
training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
• Clinical
responsibilities:
• In accordance with the practice clinical rota,
as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a
variety of duties, including in practice consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and
dealing with queries, paperwork and online and normal 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
• Providing counselling and health education
•
• 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
• 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
• Participate in
incentives such as Enhanced Services and QoF as directed
• Attending
training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where
appropriate.