Salaried GP for Urgent Treatment Centres

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Carlisle; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Relocation assistance

Teaching opportunities

Audit and quality improvement support

Descrizione del lavoro

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a motivated salaried General Practitioner with an interest in Urgent Care to join our UTC network across Cumbria. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver urgent but non-life-threatening care, support teaching, and participate in audits and service improvement.

The post holder will provide timely assessment and treatment, and help manage onward care pathways, with a focus on patient-centred care in a rural and remote NHS

Competenze

• Essential GP role in urgent care delivery in NHS settings
• Strong communication and teamwork across multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with teaching and audits and improvement activity

Mansioni

• Provide expert clinical care across Urgent Treatment Centres in Cumbria
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes
• Participate in teaching, training of junior doctors and medical students, and audits
• Contribute to annual service improvements and clinical governance

Descrizione del lavoro

We are seeking a motivated salaried General Practitioners (GP) with an interest in Urgent Care to join our team working across the Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs) in Cumbria. As a GP in our UTCs, the post holder will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, safe, and patient-centred urgent care to our local communities.

As a salaried GP in Urgent Care, the post holder work closely with a skilled multidisciplinary team, including advanced clinical practitioners, nurses, and healthcare support staff, to deliver safe, high-quality, and patient-centred care for a broad range of urgent but non-life-threatening conditions.

The post holder will be responsible, along with the multidisciplinary clinical team for the delivery of urgent care within the North Cumbria Urgent Treatment Centres. The post holder will be expected to actively join in teaching and training of more junior doctors and medical students and to join in audit activity.

The post holder's clinical expertise and leadership will ensure patients receive timely assessment, treatment, and clear onward care pathways. Providing expert clinical care across our Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting safe and effective urgent care delivery.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical care across our Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting safe and effective urgent care delivery.


• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes.


• Play an active role in the wider unplanned care programme, including departmental meetings, multidisciplinary discussions, teaching sessions, and audit reviews.


• Take part in audit and quality improvement activity, supporting evidence-based practice and service development

There will also be opportunity to actively contribute to the teaching and training of junior doctors, medical students, and trainee advanced practitioners.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

• Being a clinically led organisation


• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust


• A positive patient experience every time


• A great place to work


• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Hold appropriate medical qualification to practice medicine in the UK


• Fully registered with General Medical Council with current Licence to Practise


• Hold a certified GP qualification (or within 6 months of qualification)


• Registered on a regional Performers list with no restrictions to practise

Desirable

• Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Primary Care - Ability to diagnose and manage common medical conditions


• Excellent verbal, written and electronic communication skills


• Ability to safely and confidently prioritise patients presenting problems


• Ability to identify and assess complex problems


• Good organisational skills


• Knowledge of local services


• Recent general practice experience


• Experience of telephone consultations


• Ability to sign post to allied services

Desirable

• Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty


• Experience of minor injury assessment, management to include x-ray interpretation, manipulation and joint relocation


• Previous experience of UTC working

Management & Administrative

Essential

• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the service.


• Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently

Desirable

• Experience of audit management

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates


• Teaching of non-medical health professionals.


• Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

• Experience of, and commitment to medical audit.


• Experience of research and Clinical Governance

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research


• Publications in referred journals

Communication skills and abilities

Essential

• Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs


• Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills


• Team loyalty


• Positive approach to lessons learnt


• Confident approach without being arrogant

Desirable

• IT Skills


• Presentation skills

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Essential

• Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.


• Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.


• Participation in appropriate peer review processes.

Desirable

• Continued Professional / Personal Development

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team


• Ability to travel to fulfil the requirements of the post


• Positive approach to change
  
• Flexible to service needs

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