General Practitioner - Shakespeare Road

In general the post

• holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care including:
• Making professionally autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred internally within the Practice.
• Receives patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and makes assessment of their health care needs.
• Consults with patients in the surgery, at home visits and via telephone or on-line mechanisms as agreed internally between the practice GPs.
• Undertakes triage calls, triage visits, checking and signing of repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion as required.
• Screens patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, develops care plans for health.
• Provides counselling and health education as necessary.
• Admits or discharges patients to and from caseload and refers them to other care providers internally and externally as appropriate and in line with practice protocols.
• Complies with all relevant clinical governance and Practice polices and protocols.
• Assists in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions.
• Completes clinically related administrative and non clinical duties needed for the delivery of the service.
• Records clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning, and audit and effectiveness to ensure evidence based best practice.
• Provides active input to the wider Primary healthcare team in the process of health needs research/base line data collection/clinical audit.
• Compiles and issues computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing in accordance with the Practice/ Local ICB prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Meets professional learning and CPD requirements.
• Develops effective relationships with other colleagues.

• Contributes to the evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting with colleagues.
• Records data in patient records systems promptly and accurately and to agreed standards.
• Ensures appropriate use of read codes.
• Participates in the collection and collation of statistics towards the preparation of practice reports, performance monitoring and audits.
• Participates in the auditing of practice activity as required.
• Contributes to the strategic management and development of the practice.
• Provides reports to both NHS and non-NHS agencies as required.
• Responsible for health and safety of themselves and others and for reporting and actively co-operating in Practice Health and Safety Policies and procedures.
• Processes and actions incoming patient and hospital correspondence.
• Attends in-house meetings, significant event audit meetings and other meetings as deemed necessary.
• Ensures that the practice complaints system is adhered to at all times.
• Awareness and compliance with all relevant guidelines e.g.data protection, confidentiality and health and safety.
• Maintain current CPR and anaphylaxis certification and child/adult safeguarding training in line with local policies.