Salaried GP

Job summary: The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. 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. Personal/professional development: In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with 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 • 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 recognize 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. Contribution to the implementation of services: The post-holder will: • Apply practice policies, standards and guidance • Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work • Participate in audit where appropriate. • Participate in practice meetings. Job description Job responsibilities Job summary: The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. 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. Personal/professional development: In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with 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 • 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 recognize 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. Contribution to the implementation of services: The post-holder will: • Apply practice policies, standards and guidance • Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work • Participate in audit where appropriate. • Participate in practice meetings.