Salaried GP in North East

Guide Post Medical Group Job Description SALARIED GP Reporting to: GP Clinical Partners clinically Business Manager administratively Role summary: The post-holder will provide general medical services, 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 surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage, visiting patients at home, checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, in a timely fashion.
• Respond to medical problems presented by temporary residents as required.
• 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.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• To assist in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions e. g. asthma, COPD Completion of clinically related administrative and non clinical duties needed for the delivery of the service.
• Providing health education.
• Refer patients for further opinions and interventions according to practice protocols.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Participate in training plans of GP registrar and medical students as required.
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
• Clinical Workload
• Each session will involve face to face consultations, telephone consultations, and associated paper work as specified in Clinical Responsibilities.
• Home visits will also be required, on a pro-rata weekly basis.

Maintaining, Monitoring & Updating Computer Database and Management of Medical Records & Practice Audits

• Ensure that the practice clinical database is updated promptly and accurately with information relating to patient records, as required for clinical accuracy and for practice recording requirements under IM&T protocols, Enhanced Services and QOF.
• Respond to alerts on records.
• Appropriate use of read codes.
• Participating in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits.
• Participation in the auditing of Practice activity.
• Practice Organisation Process and action incoming patient and hospital correspondence.
• Attendance at primary health care team meetings, significant event audit meetings, MDT meetings and others as deemed necessary.
• Initiate and participate in the formulation and implementation of new protocols, policies and procedures to aid and improve administrative organisation and the provision of services to patients.
• Ensure that the Practice complaints system is adhered to at all times.
• Awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e. g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Completion of mandatory training e. g. Safeguarding, CPR, Information Governance, and provide certificates.
• Professional Development
• Participate in an annual performance review under agreed headings.
• Engage in appropriate educational activity to maintain clinical competence and performance.
• Attendance and participation in educational meetings in the Practice and externally.
• Support colleagues in their professional development.

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

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