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Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
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. Practice Responsibilities *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.
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Salary
£104.18k per annum
