Community GP, Team Up Derbyshire (2 sessions - Fridays)

Integrated Care System; Clay Cross CP; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Clay Cross is seeking a Community GP to provide holistic care for frail patients. This role involves clinical leadership within a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on home visits and enhancing healthcare services. Ideal for portfolio GPs wanting to shape community care for older people. Opportunities for mentorship and leadership development are available. NHS pension included.

Benefits

NHS pension

Mentorship opportunities

Qualifications

• Vocational training in General Practice is essential.
• Sound understanding of elderly care is crucial.
• Full driving license required due to travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team.
• Home visiting for clinically complex cases.
• Engage in service development as the team expands.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Ability to triage patients

Teamwork

Education

Vocationally trained and accredited GP

Current registration with GMC

MRCGP

Qualification in Care of the Elderly

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Community GP, Team Up Derbyshire (2 sessions - Fridays)

Are youenthusiastic about providing holistic care for frail patients?

Do you want analternative to the current model of General Practice, where you can spend moretime with the most complex patients?

South Hardwick PCNare seeking to recruit a Community GP to support our multi-disciplinary team providinghealthcare to our housebound patients and patients in care or residentialfacilities across the PCN footprint.

This is an ideal role for a portfolio GP with negotiable sessions available.

This is an excitingopportunity to be at the forefront of the delivery of our Ageing Well modelof care - Team Up Derbyshire. The role transcendsthe traditional health and social care organisational boundaries. It willinvolve true MDT working, building relationships with GP practices, Community Core and Rapid Response Nursing and Therapy services, Falls services and Adult Social Care, to help clinically deliver theservice on a day-to-day basis.

This is an evolving service,so you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of Team Up andthe Home Visiting Service if you wish to.

The aim for the service isto ultimately provide a holistic approach to acute on-the-day/rapid responseservices, enhanced health in care homes and enhanced proactive care for olderpeople with frailty and patients with multi-faceted health problems.

Main duties of the job

Key Duties Tasksand Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day clinicalleadership for the multi-disciplinary team including debriefing after visits ifneeded

Maintain a visible clinical profile, having both advisory and clinical input into the medical management of patients presenting to the service

Home visiting for clinicallycomplex cases e.g. end of life care, diagnostic uncertainty, complexprescribing decisions

Provide senior clinical triage forthe Acute Home Visiting service

Maximise best care in the patients' own homes to reduce the need for hospital or care home admissions

Build relationships acrossthe extended team including, but not limited to social care, ambulance, socialprescribers, community, and mental health clinicians.

Lead/Engage in service development as the team expands

Lead/Engage in MDT meetings

Provide holisticcomprehensive assessment and enhanced advance planning

Maximise best care in thepatients own homes to reduce the need for hospital or care home admissions.

Provide end of life care inline with the patients wishes

Maximise opportunities for teachingand mentorship

About us

South Hardwick Primary Care Networkis a group of 8 forward thinking and progressive practices (population 69,372) whohave developed a friendly and effective working relationship with one another.

South Hardwick is a mix of formermining communities, suburbs, and rural communities to the south of Chesterfield.

Your employer would be North EasternDerbyshire Healthcare Ltd, and you would be entitled to NHS pension.

To understand more about therole of a Community GP, please see this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_77QcLG_4

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification which outlines the key tasks and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A vocationally trained and accredited GP
• Current registration with GMC
• On the GP performers list
• MRCGP
• Recognised qualification in Care of the Elderly
• Recognised qualification in medical education/clinical supervision
• Evidence of leadership development

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to understand others' competencies and support them to work within/at the top of those competencies, and to recognise/act when others are going beyond their competency.
• Ability to work effectively across traditional organisational and professional boundaries.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues, patients and external organisations.
• Ability to triage patients in order of clinical need.
• Effective communication, verbally and in writing.
• Full driving license required as travelling required for the role.
• Committed to the development of integrated community teams.
• Leadership of service delivery / change.

Aptitude and Personal Qualities

• Recognise the benefits of multiagency & multidisciplinary team working.

Experience

• Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the Elderly
• Understanding of adult safeguarding and Deprivation of liberty procedures
• Experience of multidisciplinary working, and of working effectively as a team member
• Experience of senior clinical triage for the Acute Home Visiting to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.
• Knowledge and experience of undertaking Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
• Experience of medical education/clinical supervision
• Experience of using SystmOne or another clinical system

Values, Drivers and Motivators

• A Passion for excellent, holistic, patient centred care for older people with frailty

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.