General Practitioner - Out of Hours Service

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Job summary

An established industry player in palliative care is seeking a dedicated General Practitioner to join their bank service. This role involves providing essential out-of-hours support at a children's hospice, ensuring timely and effective medical care for patients. You'll be part of a compassionate team, making a significant impact on the lives of children and families during challenging times. With a focus on quality of life, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause while working in a supportive environment. Your expertise will help shape the care provided, making every day count for those in need.

Qualifications

• Must have UK professional registration and relevant medical qualifications.
• Experience in general practice with a focus on palliative care is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call GP support for hospice sites and triage clinical situations.
• Communicate effectively with nursing teams and ensure timely responses.

Skills

General practice experience

Understanding of medical treatments

Ability to use Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Education

Primary medical qualification (MBChB, MBBS, MD)

Full GMC registration

GP specialist register registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Databases

Job description

Havens Hospices

About

Havens Hospices provides palliative nursing and supportive care to adults and children living with complex or incurable conditions.

Our specialist Care Teams can support them and their family living throughout illness, death, and bereavement, in the comfort of their own home and through our hospice services, Fair Havens and Little Havens.

We focus on their quality of life, caring for individual physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs. We don’t charge a penny for any of our care services. Our hospice care can only exist because of the support and generosity of the community.

Together, we’re ‘Making every day count.’

Contact

Address: Fair Havens, 226 Priory Crescent, Southend on Sea, Essex, SS2 6PR

Contact Number: 01702 220350

Key details

Location

Site: Little Havens

Address: Daws Heath Road, Thundersley, SS7 2LH

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Bank

Hours: 0 hours per week (Bank position)

• Part time
• Other

Salary

Grade: SPOT Salary

Specialty

Main area: General Practitioner

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our bank GP service, predominantly located at our Little Havens Children's Hospice in Thundersley, Essex. This role will support our service on an out of hours basis (evenings and weekends), offering GP cover and support where required.

Advert

This role will provide out of hours support for our CYP service located at Little Havens, responding by phone within one hour of the request, offering an initial triage service, advice and guidance, and attending on-site if necessary.

Working for our organisation

At Havens Hospices, we care for children, young people, and adults with complex or incurable conditions. Our specialist Care Teams can support them and their family living throughout illness, death, and bereavement in the comfort of their own home and through our hospice services, Fair Havens and Little Havens.

Working at Havens Hospices allows you to give the gift of time to patients and families, creating memories. Although you may not be giving direct care to our patients, your contribution will have an immediate effect on our care services.

In return for your expertise and passion, you will receive a competitive salary package, and most of all, by making the most of every day you work at Havens Hospices you’ll be helping us continue ‘Making every day count’ for those who need us most.

At Havens Hospices we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our employees and patients and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. We value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide on-call GP support to cover the charity’s hospice sites.
• To respond by phone with a maximum response time of one hour and triage the clinical situation providing advice and guidance to the nursing team.
• To respond in an appropriate timeframe for the clinical situation having provided appropriate advice and safety netting in the meantime and have clearly documented this in the relevant clinical record.
• Take clinical responsibility for decisions around the timeframe for attendance.
• Communicate accurately with the nurse looking after the patient the expected response time and ensure they are aware of when to make further contact.
• Where a response time faster than four hours is needed and it is not possible to provide this, give appropriate advice about contacting emergency services.
• To consider the social and psychological circumstances of a patient and their family and the needs of the service when assessing the timeliness of response needed.
• To be available to always attend within a maximum of four hours when on call.
• To attend with a maximum response time of four hours where the nurse looking after the patient feels this is essential.
• Daily review of any person admitted for end-of-life care/symptom management.
• Review of any patient in need of medical review while admitted to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Support for discussions around intended emergency admissions to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Prescribing safely, effectively, and in line with the charity’s prescribing policy for all in-patients.
• Liaising with secondary or tertiary care centres as needed for in-patients or in preparation for admission.
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns promptly and via the appropriate reporting routes as detailed in the safeguarding policy.
• Working collaboratively with the nursing team and wider MDT.
• Attendance at quarterly medical team meetings.
• Engagement with 1:1s, internal appraisals, GP appraisals, and the revalidation process.
• Maintaining an appropriate level of personal indemnity cover.
• Maintaining mandatory training and keeping up to date with mandatory reads as required by Havens Hospices.
• Appropriately reporting incidents or near misses and being engaged in the process of investigating these as needed.
• Responding in a timely manner to feedback or complaints.
• To liaise with the lead bank doctor around the coordination of the rota to always ensure provision of GP cover for the charity and to escalate to the Medical Director any gaps or risks surrounding this.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Primary medical qualification (MBChB, MBBS, MD) or equivalent
• Full GMC registration with licence to practice
• GP specialist register registration

Desirable criteria

• Additional palliative medicine qualifications
• Additional paediatric qualifications

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• General practice experience of at least 1 year post CCT
• Understanding of commonly used medical treatments and devices including but not limited to PEG tubes, syringe drivers, CADD pumps.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams), databases, other relevant software and systems, and the internet to an intermediate level.
• Ability to update and maintain records, databases, and other systems accurately and efficiently.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Rachael Marchant

Job title: Medical Director

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 01702 220350