About the role
Salary: Negotiable
Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Hamble Valley Health.
This post has a base as their main site at Blackthorn Health Centre. On a
rolling basis, you will also work in our Urgent Care Centre which is at
Bursledon Surgery. This is on a fair share rota. In the same way, you will be
our "operational director" around once every 3-4 weeks. This means
you are the clinical lead for the urgent care centre in the practice. This
requires a longer working day (8am to 6.30pm).
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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 including appropriate coding and use of electronic templates and other electronic systems as agreed.
Collecting data for audit purposes
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
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.