Job Purpose: The post holder will be required to work within Worcester City PCN at an agreed location, providing general medical services, dealing with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, to include General practice, Overflow Hub, home visits and care homes ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
The post can be part time or full time.
Read on to fully understand what this job requires in terms of skills and experience If you are a good match, make an application.
Key Areas and Responsibilities: In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the postholder will undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, triaging if required, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, and dealing with queries.
Blood results, medicine management, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations (e.g.
Insurance Companies on behalf of the PCN), referral letters, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely manner.
Mentoring/supervising clinicians who are on agreed pathways or that work as part of your team (ARRS).
Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers.
Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T.
based consultation notes to agreed standards.
Collecting data for audit purposes.
Maintaining DOCMAN.
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, including awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.
prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, actively involved in QOF.
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.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Health & Safety: The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy.
Equality and Diversity: The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues.
Personal/Professional Development: The post-holder will maintain continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met.
Quality: The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, alerting other team members to issues of Clinical Governance, participating in Significant Event Analysis reviews, and contributing to the effectiveness of the team.
Contribution to the Planning and Implementation of Services: The post-holder will apply practice policies, standards, and guidance and participate in audit where appropriate.
Communication: Be able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health professionals, users, and carers.
Clinical Governance: To participate and operate within the clinical governance framework for the organisation at all times.
IT Security Policy: You are required to work within the remit of Vertis and Technology Security Policy.
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