Specialty Doctor In Urgent Treatment Centre

Countess Of Chester Hospital; Chester; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinician to join the UTC team. The post involves delivering urgent primary care and working with the UTC Clinical Lead, Directorate Manager and Service Manager to provide safe, high-quality care within a busy district general hospital.

You will work full time across 10 sessions per week, prioritise consultations, adapt to flexible working practices, and contribute to continuous improvement and safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide complete consultations with assessment, treatment, and management of patients with urgent primary care problems at the UTC.
• Prioritise timeliness of all consultations.
• Be flexible, responsive, resilient, and self-motivated to modern primary care ways-of-working.
• Complete coding requirements in line with Trust requirements.
• Identify patients who do not require treatment and those needing inpatient or specialist care for appropriate referrals.
• Promote integrated team-working and liaison with the Emergency Department for referrals to specialties.

Job description

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.

Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation

Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviours.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.

As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit.

Job overview

Working Full time: 10 sessions per week

The post holder will deliver clinical care and work with the current UTC team, UTC Clinical Lead, Directorate Manager and Service Manager to deliver an effective service that provides, safe and high-quality care. The post/s are an excellent opportunity to join an Urgent Treatment Centre team which is in a stage of additional investment, and work within the healthcare system of a busy district general hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Provide complete consultations with assessment, treatment, and management of patients of all ages presenting with urgent primary care problems at the UTC.


• To be responsible for prioritisation and timeliness of all consultations.


• To be flexible, responsive, resilient, and self-motivated and understand the needs of modern primary care ways-of-working to maximise effective and efficient care.


• To complete coding requirements in line with the Trust requirements


• To be confident identifying patients who do not require treatment in the UTC and identifying those who require inpatient or more specialist treatment and referring them appropriately.


• Promote integrated team-working and liaison with the Emergency Department to support referrals to specialties where appropriate, including community services.


• To give education to patients on healthy living and disease prevention.


• To give education to patients on appropriate use of NHS services.


• To work within the prescribing formulary taking account of the minimum recommended length of prescribed treatment.


• To adopt a reflective approach to clinical practice, to report all incidents and work with the team to investigate.


• To be responsible to the employing Trust and subject to the NHS Complaints Procedure.


• To follow the Countess of Chester’s child safeguarding and vulnerable adults’ policy.

Working for our organisation

The Trust’s services are provided from three locations: