Salaried GP

In this role, you will carry out 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 timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to

presenting problems, whether self-referral 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

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

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

Further duties for this role are available in the job

description

Clinical responsibilities

post-holder will make him/her-self 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 timely fashion

presenting problems, whether self-referral or referred from other health care

workers within the organisation

undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

signs of illness

practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

and referring to other care providers as appropriate

agreed standards

prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within

primary care

Other responsibilities within the organisation

policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health

and safety

evidence-based best practice

setting within the organisation

records

read-coding patient data

other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

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

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

other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged

to authorised person 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 their own and other 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 not be limited to)

according to practice guidelines

cleanliness and regulatory/contractual, professional requirements and good

practice guidelines

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

clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

(PPE_ and ensuring correct use of PPE by other, advising on appropriate

circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients

procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or

individual infectious circumstances)

clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols

across the practice

practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,

ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are

identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person

undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical

and patient process

skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of

infection control and patient processes

to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand cleansing

facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical

working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the

responsible manager

maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from

hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation

to responsible management

and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

generally clean, sterile, identify issues and hazards / risks in relation to

other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the

maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in

consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers

twice annually)

segregation, and container use

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and

rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures

and policies, and current legislation

patients, carers and colleagues

individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings

priorities and rights.

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, such training to include

including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or

professional development

performance and demonstrating skills and activities to other who are

undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the

Practice, and will

actions, either directly or under supervision

on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and

enhance the teams performance

Fellview Healthcare is part of the North Cumbria Primary

Care Alliance. NCPC is a primary care organisation doing things differently.

Fellview Healthcare have surgeries throughout West Cumbria

including ,Whitehaven, Egremont and Cleator Moor. For more information about

NCPC and the Fellview Healthcare, please visit the supporting links or contact

us with any questions you may have.

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