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General Practitioner - Forest View Medical Centre
| Posting date: | 10 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Treorchy, CF42 6DL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | M0044-24-0168 |
Summary
As a Salaried General Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality primary care services, with a range of responsibilities tailored to meet the dynamic needs of our patients and practice. While the core duties are outlined below, flexibility and a willingness to adapt to varying workload and staffing levels are essential. Clinical Responsibilities: Consultations: Engage in surgery consultations, telephone consultations, and patient queries as per the practice timetable. This includes home visits, managing repeat prescriptions, and addressing patient queries and paperwork efficiently. Decision-Making: Make professional, autonomous decisions for presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred by other healthcare workers. Patient Assessment: Assess healthcare needs for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, screening for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. Care Planning: Develop care plans in consultation with patients, aligning with current practice disease management protocols. Health Education and Counselling: Provide counselling and health education, tailoring advice and support to patient needs. Patient Management: Manage patient admission and discharge from the caseload, referring to other care providers as appropriate. Documentation: Maintain clear, contemporaneous consultation notes and collect data for audit purposes, adhering to QOF requirements and delivering enhanced services. Prescriptions: Issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing in accordance with the practice formulary and clinical appropriateness. Other Responsibilities within the Organisation: Policy Compliance: Ensure awareness and compliance with all practice policies and guidelines, including prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health & safety and duty of candour. Continuous Learning: Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, audit, and evidence-based practice. Contribute to clinical standard setting and the development of computer-based patient records. Record Management: Contribute to patient record summarising and Read-Coding of patient data. Attend relevant training and events to maintain and enhance professional development. Practice Responsibilities: Clinical Standards and Audit: Contribute to clinical standard setting and audits, ensuring data is recorded promptly and accurately in patient records systems. Health and Safety: Maintain responsibility for personal health and safety, as well as that of others, adhering to practice health and safety policies and procedures. Professional Development: Develop a training plan in conjunction with practice objectives, participating fully in training and development opportunities provided by the practice. Training & Development: Participate fully in training and development activities and engage with strategies to enhance clinical, leadership and administrative skills, in alignment with practice business objectives. This role demands a proactive, dedicated approach to patient care, with a strong emphasis on quality, safety, and continuous improvement. OUR VALUES We put our patients at the HEART of everything we do. Harmony Working in harmony with our colleagues, community and external healthcare professionals we will create a vision of healthcare for the future. Working harmoniously, we will create a multidisciplinary health care model to provide quality healthcare for each patient at the right time. Excellence We will always welcome open and honest feedback so that we can strive for excellence. Excellence will be achieved through continuous learning and developing innovative solutions to improve healthcare for our community. We will invest time to provide ongoing training and support to not only our colleagues but GPs of the future. Accountability This means more than simply just doing our job, it forms our obligation to make things better, to pursue excellence and the vision for our practice. Being accountable means we are answerable for our actions and the actions of our team. It helps drive our commitment to the quality and improvement of services and care. Respect Respect is a guiding value for all colleagues at Forest View, it makes the foundation for every interaction. We will respect and appreciate each persons need or point of view recognising them as individuals and we will always take the time to understand and support them. Teamwork We understand that the success of our practice is inevitably tied to others and our performance as a team is defined by every person. We commit to keeping our colleagues safe and looking after their well-being. We will always welcome partnerships that enhance and benefit the community we serve.