General Practitioner - OOH GP Locum/s

NHS Careers; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Careers in Worcestershire is recruiting General Practitioners to join the GP OOH service, providing urgent primary care outside normal hours with evening and overnight shifts, including face-to-face care.

We welcome GPs at any career stage and offer a tailored induction plus ongoing professional support, case reviews and peer feedback to help you become an experienced OOH clinician. Home visits and telephone triage may form part of the role.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice as a General Practitioner.
• Inclusion on Medical Performers List.
• Experience in out-of-hours GP or urgent care settings in the last 12 months.
• Experience with Adastra is a massive advantage.
• Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) required or desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent primary care management for out-of-hours patients.
• Work predominantly in the evenings and overnights, with some face-to-face shifts.
• Induction and ongoing professional support, case reviews and peer feedback.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Evidence-based decision making

Clinical audits

Education

GP training (JCPTGP certificate or MRCGP)

Tools

Adastra

Job description

Our well respected and renouned Healthcare establishment provides urgent medical advice and assessment to all patients living in the Worcestershire area when normal primary care is closed. Operating between 6:30pm to 8am weekdays and 24 hours across weekends and bank holidays, the service provides advice and treatment for patients that have either called 111 or have entered the service through other means and require urgent primary care management. The service is provided by a multi-disciplinary team that includes GPs, Nurse and Paramedic practitioners, administrative and operational colleagues, all working together to provide clinical care from 3 main bases in Worcester, Reddich and Stratford, offering sessions over the telephone or home visits, but to highlight this is not a remote position at this time, though it may become this way in time. Duties The service is now seeking to recruit GPs to join their workforce in the GP OOH service. The current vacant shifts are predominantly face to face and available in the evening and overnight period 7 days a week - priority will be given to GPs who can commit to working face to face shifts during the evenings and overnights. If you are an interested GP and are seeking daytime shifts across the week or only telephone triage work, please be aware that availability of these shifts is limited but still available., We are keen to recruit GPs to our team that are at any stage of their career and can work any number of hours up to full time on a contract basis. This may be colleagues who have recently completed GP training or GPs that are further along in their career and wish to develop their portfolio career or are simply looking for a new challenge. We can offer an individually tailored induction programme to help you settle into your role followed by ongoing professional support from case review and peer feedback, all of which is designed to help you become an experienced and skilled OOH clinician.

Generally, the role requires similar skills to those of an in-hours GP although the following additional skills are desirable but not essential (as support and learning opportunities can be provided) Experience in palliative care and use of controlled drugs Catheter Management Person Specification Registration

Person Specification

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice as a General Practitioner
• Inclusion on Medical Performers List
• Evidence of working in either in, or out of hours General Practice in the last 12 months
• GP OOH Experience or other urgent care settings (Desirable, not essential)
• Experience in Adastra is a massive advantage here, though applications will be considered for future training possiblilites.

Ability and Knowledge

• Ability to make appropriate assessments in the management of Primary Care patients
• Ability to use the current evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making
• Experience of conducting clinical audit (Desired, not essential)

Qualifications

• Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check (Online and updated desirable)

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.