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Provide safe, evidence-based, individualised, and holistic care to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.
Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.
Refer patients directly to other services and agencies as appropriate.
Work with healthcare colleagues to ensure that National Service Frameworks (e.g. Coronary Heart Disease, Older People, Diabetes, Mental Health, Asthma, COPD) are being delivered.
Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Practice to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
Contribute to the practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery e.g. QOF and enhanced services.
Works at the forefront of practice innovation and supports the identification of community health needs. Helps to develop and advance primary care services for the benefit of patients, carers and communities
Seeks to develop an area of special interest within the practice to support improved outcomes for practice population.
Audits outcomes against standards and initiates learning change where necessary.
To actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to escalate any concerns promptly.
Be aware of practice-based commissioning and contribute to current initiatives to improve existing patient services.
Embrace IT and all computer services available in practice and nationally to aid communication and education of patients
To carry out all duties in a professional manner and adhere to all protocols, policies and procedural guidelines at all times.
Further more:
a. assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national)and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team;
b. manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action;
c. use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice;
d. actively take a personalised care approach and population centered care
approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person; and
e. complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.