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AGNC Guidelines for
Job Plans
These job plans are based upon a WTE of
37.5 hours per week for 44 weeks of the year, broken
down into 38 sessions per 4 week cycle. (Session = 3.75
hours). This allows 2 flexible sessions per 4 week
period for urgent referrals, extra travel or other
unplanned work. (total 40 sessions)
| Type of work |
Banding |
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6 |
7 |
Clinical 8a |
Management 8a |
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Direct Clinical Care |
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Patient interaction – direct autonomous
including significant telephone counselling* |
0-6 dependent on experience |
8 |
8 |
6 |
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Clinic preparation/record keeping/co-ordination
from actions/ ‘clinical’ travel |
10 |
9 |
8 |
6 |
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Ongoing case
management/case discussion/clinical meetings/on
call advice (on call – not band 6) |
8 |
10 |
10 |
7 |
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Co-counselling clinics1 |
6 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
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Non-direct Clinical Care |
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Networking/teaching |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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Personal and others’development2/CPD/supervision/mentoring/registration
activities3 |
6 – 12 adjust with above |
3 |
5 |
4 |
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Service development e.g. audit/research/patient
pathways/protocols and guidelines |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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Management responsibilities4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
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Total |
38 |
38 |
38 |
38 |
Explanatory Notes:
A clinic session would normally be
expected to consist of four 45 minute slots.
Follow-up appointments can be
accommodated within a clinic template.
Sessions maybe negotiated locally to
accommodate complex cases requiring longer or shorter
results appointments.
* Significant
telephone counselling would be a telephone call to a
patient that involved both information collecting and
giving and would be expected to last at least 20
minutes.
For peripheral clinics or home visits,
time has been allowed for travel to and from these
sessions within the working hours. If an individual does
not require travel time, then this time could be
utilised elsewhere.
1Co-counselling is defined by
the AGNC committee as:
·
Attending consultant clinic as co-counsellor (not
as an observer)
·
Attending SpR clinics as co-counsellor or
supervisor
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Peer supervision opportunities
·
Colleague support or joint MDT clinics
2It is
not envisaged that Band 6 post holders will be involved
in the personal development of others except being a
trainee for a band 7 mentor.
3In
recognition that genetic counsellors will need to
maintain or apply for registration, the equivalent of
almost 1 session per week is allocated to CPD and
opportunity for supervision. The GCRB requires (and the
AGNC committee endorses) that individuals can evidence
30 hours of CPD per year and can demonstrate regular
access to counselling supervision. Registration
activities are intended to include compiling a portfolio
for submission, maintenance of registration, assessing
portfolios and mentoring individuals for registration.
4The
ratio of management: clinical commitments will vary
according to local requirements. The above job plan
allocates 20% management , 20% non-clinical and 60%
clinical.
Management roles may include
attending/chairing meetings, developing policies,
managing staffing levels and performing IPRs; liaising
with the business manager and lead clinicians on a
regular basis.
These job plans are based upon an
assumption that administrative support for genetic
counsellors is in place. This support would be expected
to include:
·
typing dictation or formatting of externally
typed letters,
·
arranging clinic appointments and preparing
clinics with hospital and genetic records,
·
obtaining hospital records as requested,
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filing,
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photocopying
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and that the waiting list would be managed by the
admin staff/manager.
The AGNC committee feel that the above
tasks are not appropriate to be undertaken by highly
trained and expensive genetic counsellors.
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