Job description
The post-holder
will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary
care setting, ensuring the highest standard of care for all registered and
temporary patients.
Clinical
Responsibilities
• In accordance with the
practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/herself available
to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing
repeat prescription 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 sign 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
•
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
•
Prescribing in accordance
with the practice prescribing formulary 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 eg. prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, Health & Safety
• A commitment to lifelong
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 and other agencies, where appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder
will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary
care setting, ensuring the highest standard of care for all registered and
temporary patients.
Clinical
Responsibilities
• In accordance with the
practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/herself available
to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing
repeat prescription 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 sign 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
•
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
•
Prescribing in accordance
with the practice prescribing formulary 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 eg. prescribing,
confidentiality, data protection, Health & Safety
• A commitment to lifelong
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 and other agencies, where appropriate