Job description

Job responsibilities

ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

The post holder will be responsible to the GP Partners

DESCRIPTION OF ROLE

To provide general medical services, at both sites of Betts Avenue Medical Centre, for registered and temporary patients.

CONTEXT OF POST

The post holder will work closely together with the practice team to provide high quality primary care services to the practice population as required by the surgery in line with approved protocols and evidence based medical practice.

RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO THIS POST

To manage a caseload, dealing with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, at all times ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

To undertake all duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical:

• Provide a full range of medical services as defined in the core GMS contract and additional and enhanced services where appropriate.

• Undertake a variety of duties (as agreed) including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, eConsultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with all queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

• Develop care plans for health, in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.

• Provide counselling and health education.

• Refer patients to other care providers as appropriate.

• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to GMC standards.

• Collect data for audit purposes.

• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).

• Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

• Ensure accurate and timely input of patient data onto the clinical system.

• Undertake all duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

• On call duties: Late House call requests received between 12 noon and 6 pm to be triaged by the site on-call GP and appropriate action to be taken and clearly documented. The Urgent queries of the day are shared amongst all Clinicians working on that particular day.

Managerial/Administration:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety. Apply practice policies, standards and guidance and discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records.
• Contribute to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
• Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Administration: process requests for insurance reports and claim forms (private and non-private).

Quality:

• At all times 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.

Confidentiality:

• All patients have the right to expect that all practice staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately at all times.
• In the performance of duties, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Communication:

• The post-holder must recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and strive to communicate effectively with other team members, patients, carers and recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
• To attend practice clinical and management meetings where appropriate.

Additional Responsibilities

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will promote and maintain their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy including, but not limited to,

• Use of personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertake such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Minimising the risk of infection to yourself, colleagues and patients, and in so doing, you must:
• Be familiar with, and adhere to practice policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
• Attend statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control.
• Include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development.
• Take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleagues.
• Report potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

• At all times act in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• At all times respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behave in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through annual appraisals, revalidation and attendance at any necessary courses and/or study days, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, 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.

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
• Produce significant event analyses when appropriate
• Participated in regular clinical team meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised qualifications for GP vocational training: MRCGP or equivalent
• On the GMC GP register with a certificate of completion of training (CCT)
• GMC Full Registration with a License to Practice
• Membership and appropriate cover of a recognised defence union
• Inclusion on Performers' List
• Evidence of being up-to-date with Mandatory Training.
• Regular appraisal and revalidation in accordance with the Good Medical Practice Framework

Desirable

• Evidence of Clinical interests or specialist skills including Lead roles (Care Homes ward rounds, Palliative and EoL care in the community, Family Planning skills or other)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of GP clinical IT system SystmOne or EMIS

Desirable

• Experience of SystmOne Clinical system.
• Use of Accurx system
• Familiarity with Ardens Templates

Professional Attitude

Essential

• Ability to manage a varied primary care caseload and respond in a flexible way to fluctuations in workload
• Self-motivated and hardworking with the ability to stay calm under pressure
• Empathetic, honest, caring
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Enthusiastic, innovative and motivated.
• Open and reflective

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• A good understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality issues
• Up to date knowledge of national and local initiative, guidance and regulations

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Evidence of professional vision and personal flexibility to be part of a developmental service which will seek to provide new services and ways of working

Other

Essential

• Car driver with full UK driving licence.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Betts Avenue Medical Centre

Address

2 Betts Avenue

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE15 6TQ