Salaried GP

Dealing

with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the

highest standards of care for all.

Duties include patient

consultations, home visits, repeat prescriptions and paperwork, correspondence

Make professional, autonomous

decisions

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 in

conjunction with patients

Provide counselling & health

education

Prescribe in accordance with

practice prescribing formulary/generically when clinically appropriate

Maintain an awareness of and

compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines

A commitment to learning and

audit to ensure evidence-based best practice, contributing to audit & clinical

standard setting within the practice

Attend training, events, meetings

organised by the practice, other agencies

Summary of duties

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

Provide

NHS personal medical services to registered patients, temporary residents and

patients who present requiring immediate and necessary treatment

In

accordance with the practice timetable, make yourself 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 where appropriate

In

consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management

protocols, developing care plans for health

Providing

counselling and health education where appropriate

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, eg

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.

Attending

primary health care team meetings and other meetings as required by the

surgery.

Undertake

any other duties that are considered to be appropriate to the post.

Established over 40 years

Extremely supportive and

organised

Successful training practice

(ST's/FY2s)

Well-structured and family

friendly valuing work/life balance

Wide range of services inc.

minor surgery

EMIS Web

Work in collaboration with local

practices

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities

Knowledge

Other

Personal Qualities