General Practitioner

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 our patients.

In accordance with our practice rota, as agreed the post

holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties:

including clinical audits, F2F surgery consultations, a triage system, use of

AccuRx, video & telephone consultations, home visits, checking/signing

repeat prescriptions and issuing acute scripts. They will deal with paperwork

and correspondence in a timely manner.

We have a strong culture of training, teaching/staff

development and will actively support and encourage development in any areas of

special interest. We are seeking a caring and committed doctor who is able to

demonstrate high standards of clinical care and is willing to work as part of a

highly motivated team.

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 F2F & Tel 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 Practice

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 practice

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 practice

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.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us

with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health

and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that

staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job

description, 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.

Health & safety

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of

promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and

infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the

practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy

and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplace

according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control and

cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good

practice guidelines

Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the

specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct

and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

The benefits of working at the practice will include a

competitive salary, BMA contract, NHS pension and protected PDP

sessions. The practice provides a supportive environment and we are keen to

embrace new ways of working.

We are based in NHS premises and fully computerised and

paper light using EmisWeb. We work closely with our colleagues within the

Sedgley, Gornal and Coseley PCN network.

Informal visits are welcome.

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