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Location
Hove, East Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
Job summary: 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. Main Duties: Morning and afternoon surgeries face to face, and telephone appointments. Home visits allocate according to continuity of care and fairly distributed amongst the clinical team. Work alongside our Multi professional team including practice pharmacists, advanced nurse practitioners, Paramedic practitioners, Physician Associate, Practice nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Associate Practitioners. Liaising with external health care professionals Continue to support our excellent QOF performance Equitable share of duty doctor days Daily clinical huddles. 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, 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 In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health Providing counselling and health education 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 acute and repeat prescriptions (EPS) 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 and in line with a GMS contract. Other responsibilities within the organisation: Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. 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 In line with CPD, attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate. Full Job Description available on request
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