GP - Out of Hours

FedBucks Ltd; High Wycombe, Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible hours

Training and career development

Round-the-clock support

Job summary

FedBucks Ltd is actively recruiting GPs to join our Out of Hours team in Buckinghamshire. Positions offered as salaried or self-employed, with competitive pay and flexible hours, including overnight cover. The role involves telephone consultations, face-to-face appointments and home visits.

The overnight shift runs midnight to 08:00 with a second GP, located at Wycombe Hospital and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, performing triage and urgent care for patients in Buckinghamshire.

Qualifications

• Over 3 years post-CCT experience in UK primary care.
• Experience of working in Out Of Hours GP services.
• Experience of teaching or supervising medical trainees is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely high quality clinical care via telephone consultations, base appointments and home visits.
• Triage patients and monitor the central advice pool for patient safety.
• Deliver care across all age ranges and health care needs.
• Maintain accurate medical records with coding for audits.
• Coordinate with team members to ensure effective care delivery.

Skills

Overnight GP experience

UK General Practice

Telephone consultations

Home visits

Adaptability

Education

Medical Degree

Full GMC Registration

National Performers List registration

Revalidation / appraisal

Job description

Wehave immediate opportunities for GPs to join our Out of Hours (OOH) team

Workingas a salaried or self-employed GP with FedBucks offers competitive pay,flexibility, a good work life balance, training and career developmentopportunities, and round-the-clock clinical and operational support.

Ourmultidisciplinary OOH team provides primary care services acrossBuckinghamshire for patients who require medical attention when their own GPsurgery is closed.

Wewelcome applications from experienced GPs who are considering a career move orare seeking additional hours alongside another role.

GPweekday cover from 18:30 to 08:00, as well as 24-hour service at weekends andon bank holidays, delivered via telephone consultations, face-to-faceappointments and home visits. In addition, we provide in-hours telephonesupport for our member practices Monday to Friday, 08:0018:30.

Theovernight GP will cover the period from midnight to 08:00 alongside another GP.The two clinicians will be based in different parts of the county at WycombeHospital and Stoke Mandeville Hospital and will work jointly within the centraladvice pool to triage patients. Any base appointments or home visits requiredwill be undertaken by the clinician located at the Primary Care Centre (PCC)closest to the patients address. Overnight GPs will be working alone; however,they will have a driver with them.

GP Employedfrom: £61.38 per Hour (Including NHS Pensions)

GP Self Employedfrom £72.50 per Hour

Main duties of the job

An experienced OOHs GP, previously worked with FedBucks and Buckinghamshire is desirable.

To provide timely high quality clinical care, telephone consultations (average 1 every 15 minutes),base appointments (1 every 20 minutes) and home visits (1 an hour, dependant on location).

To monitor the central, advise pool for patients safety.

To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and level of health care needs.

To be competent in dealing with face-to-face base consultations, home visits and triage cases overthe phone.

Keep good quality up to date medical records including ensuring appropriate documentation andcoding is used to provide consistent RCGP audit requirements.

To provide clinical advice and support to team members as requested.

To develop and maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers ensuring effectivecare delivery.

To promote effective communication processes between all team members to enable good workingpractices.

To maintain communication processes with acute and other colleagues and partners in care toensure care delivery

About us

FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 550,000patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at ourhead office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and tochampion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision ofcommunity-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to ourpatients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe incontinuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose when enablingexcellent patient care and supporting general practice.

FedBucks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, andvulnerable adults. All staff are expected to share this commitment and to uphold the organisationssafeguarding policies and procedures at all times.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced background check (e.g., DBS) prior toappointment, and regular safeguarding training will be provided and required.

Person Specification

Experience

• - Greater than 3 years post-CCT experience
• - Evidence of working in General Practice in the UK in the last 12 months
• - Evidence of working overnights in the UK in the last 12 months
• - Greater than 12 months post-CCT experience working in
• - General Practice
• - Experience of working in primary or secondary care in Buckinghamshire
• - Experience of working in Out Of Hours primary care
• - Experience teaching medical students, FY or GP trainees
• - Experience of clinical audit

Qualifications

• - Medical Degree
• - Qualified General Practitioner with completed Certificate of
• - Completion of Training whose name is included in the
• - Full GMC Registration
• - National Performers List registration
• - Up to date revalidation / appraisal cycle
• Clinical Supervisor / Educational Supervisor training

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.