GP / Specialty Doctor

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 115,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Wage access as earned

Wellbeing support and counselling

Learning & development opportunities

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a GP/Specialist Doctor for the Wiltshire Hospital at Home (Virtual Ward) service. The role leads medical assessment and decision-making for acute care at home, providing clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team and driving frailty-focused care.

The post focuses on admission avoidance, early discharge, and safe, timely management of frail patients with complex comorbidity, across Wiltshire. Flexible full-time or part-time options are available.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration is essential.
• Background in geriatrics, acute medicine, general medicine or general practice.
• Experience caring for frail, multimorbid patients.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessment and management for Hospital at Home patients.
• Lead and mentor MDT colleagues.
• Support admission avoidance and early discharge.
• Prescribe and review medications with safe polypharmacy management.
• Maintain high-quality clinical documentation.
• Deliver leadership and contribute to service development.

Skills

Geriatric medicine

Clinical leadership

Independent clinical decisions

MDT collaboration

Home-based care

Education

Full GMC registration

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

As an GP/ Specialty Doctor, you’ll be part of our valued team in our BSW Hospital at Home (Virtual Ward) service.With a competitive salary of £115,000 - £120,000 FTE (Medical and Dental Payscale) and access to the NHS Pension, this position is designed to reward your dedication and skills.

Benefits

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a GP/ Specialty Doctor, to join the Wiltshire Hospital at Home (Virtual Ward) service. This is a senior clinical role delivering medical assessment, decision‑making and leadership for patients receiving acute, hospital‑level care in their own homes.

The service is undergoing an exciting period of transformation and expansion, making this an excellent time to join a dynamic and innovative multidisciplinary team focused on admission avoidance, early supported discharge and person‑centred frailty care.

The post holder will provide clinical assessment and management of patients, support the multidisciplinary team in delivering Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), and promote safe and timely discharge through close collaboration with MDT colleagues, patients and their families.

Applicants should have a background in Geriatric Medicine, Acute Medicine, General Medicine or General Practice, with experience working with patients living with frailty and complex comorbidity.

The Hospital at Home medical establishment is 4.3 WTE, deployed across Wiltshire to meet population need: 2.9- Wiltshire 0.6- BaNES 0.8- Swindon

The post holder will be aligned to a primary locality but must be willing to work flexibly across BSW to support service continuity and resilience.

The role is community‑based and will involve regular visits to patients in their homes across the allocated geography.

Job Plan and Working Pattern

Full‑time or part‑time working arrangements will be considered.

There is an expectation of weekend working on.

Occasional flexibility in working hours may be required to meet service need.

Main Responsibilities

The post is offered at a minimum of 6 Programmed Activities (PAs). Full‑time or part‑time working arrangements will be considered. There is an expectation of weekend working on a 1:5 rota. Occasional flexibility in working hours may be required to meet service need.

You will provide safe and effective medical care to patients within the Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward services, undertaking clinical assessment, diagnosis, and management in a community setting using limited diagnostics and remote monitoring.

You will support admission avoidance and early supported discharge through proactive senior decision‑making and maintain high‑quality clinical documentation.

You will manage prescribing, medication review, deprescribing, and polypharmacy, working closely with pharmacy colleagues to ensure safe medicines optimisation, particularly for frail patients.

As a senior clinician within the MDT, you will provide leadership, supervision, and clinical support to ACPs, nurses, and AHPs, while contributing to quality improvement, service development, and a positive learning culture.

This is a substantive GP/ Specialty Doctor, role offering a competitive, negotiable package, full medical indemnity, pension, and flexible full‑time or part‑time working options.

The Ideal Candidate

• Full GMC registration
• Working at GP/ Specialty Doctor level or able to evidence equivalent experience
• Background in Geriatric Medicine, Acute Medicine, General Medicine or General Practice
• Experience managing patients with frailty, multimorbidity and complex needs
• Ability to make independent clinical decisions in acute or urgent care settings
• Understanding of clinical governance, quality and patient safety
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle for work purposes with own vehicle and business insurance

Desirable

• Experience working within a Hospital at Home or Virtual Ward service
• Experience using community or acute clinical systems (e.g. SystmOne)
• Additional clinical skills relevant to community‑based acute care

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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