13 Oct
Bexley Medical Group
Erith
Job description
Job summary
You 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
Main duties of the job
In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working in primary care;
surgery consultations, telephone consultations, queries, home visits, repeat prescriptions, dealing with these in a timely fashion.
Professionalism in decision making
Assessing healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
Promoting and maintaining health and safety for their own other members of staff
Enthusiastic and committed
Caring and friendly
This list is not exhaustive.
About us
We are a very busy Practice with over 20,000 patients
Committed to offering good practice
We aim to be timely, considerate and responsive to the needs of our patients
Safeguarding our patients to ensure their needs are our top priority
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bexley Medical Group
JOBTITLE : SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER
REPORTSTO : THE PARTNERS (Clinically)
THE PRACTICE MANAGER(Administratively)
HOURS : TBC
JobSummary :
The post-holder will manage acaseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting,ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporarypatients.
ClinicalResponsibilities :
Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will makehim / her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries,
visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperworkand correspondence in a timely fashion
Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation
Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems
Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health
Providingcounselling and health education
Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other careproviders as appropriate
Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
Collectingdata for audit purposes
Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
Prescribingin accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) wheneverthis is clinically appropriate
Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Other Responsibilitieswithin the Organisation :
Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant Practice policies / guidelines, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice
Contributingto evaluation / audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records
Contributingto the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
Attendingtraining and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.
Confidentiality :
In the course of seekingtreatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters.
They doso in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect theirprivacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the dutiesoutlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staffand other healthcare workers.
They may also have access to informationrelating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such informationfrom any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients,carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practicemay only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practicepolicies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection ofpersonal and sensitive data.
Health& Safety :
The post-holder will assist inpromoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security asdefined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include :
Using personal security systemswithin the workplace according to Practice guidelines
Identifying the risks involved inwork activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages thoserisks
Making effective use of trainingto update knowledge and skills
Using appropriate infectioncontrol procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free fromhazards
Reporting potential risksidentified.
Equality and Diversity :
The post-holder will support the equality,diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include :
Actingin a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation
Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual,
is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal / ProfessionalDevelopment :
In addition tomaintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and / or studydays necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREPare met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implementedby the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include :
Participationin an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility formaintaining a record of own personal and / or professional development
Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality :
The post-holder will strive tomaintain quality within the Practice, and will :
Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk
Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision
Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources.
Communication :
The post-holder should recognize theimportance of effective communication within the team and will strive to :
Communicateeffectively with other team members
Communicateeffectively with patients and carers
Recognizepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contributionto the Implementation of Services :
The post-holder will :
ApplyPractice policies, standards and guidance
Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work
Participatein audit where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified GP
- Any other qualifications relevant to primary care
Desirable
- Qualified GP
▶️ Salaried GP
🖊️ Bexley Medical Group
📍 Erith