This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive, multi-professional team that recognises and upholds ESNEFT's drive to develop an outstanding clinical workforce to support our patients.
We are looking for qualified, experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated GPs to complement our established team in the Urgent Treatment Centre.
The Urgent Treatment Centre provides urgent medical treatment of acute illness and will give successful candidates the chance to work directly with colleagues in Emergency Medicine to further enhance their clinical skills. The GP role will be at the forefront of service provision and integral in supporting the multidisciplinary team in the provision and delivery of prompt, safe, and timely intervention.
The Centre is open 0800-0000, 7 days a week, including weekends and Bank Holidays with a variety of shifts available. The post holder will provide professional leadership, clinical expertise and manage same day presentations of patients to ESNEFT's Urgent and Emergency Care Centre in Ipswich.
As a GP in the service, you'll be based in a fast-paced dynamic environment and work in partnership with primary and secondary care colleagues, as well as other agencies, to secure a smooth patient journey across the whole patient pathway.
The post holder will also act as a role model while promoting clinical effectiveness and delivering outstanding clinical practice. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata), and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide clinical care to patients accessing the UTC, including consultation sessions, referring onwards, and directing patients to self-care and community pharmacy wherever appropriate.
2. Work closely with the wider teams in delivering high-quality patient-centred clinical care.
3. Ensure ongoing CPD to keep abreast of new clinical developments and maintain an appreciation of the commitments and requirements of the wider clinical workforce.
4. Prescribe generically for all patients as appropriate to need and provide appropriate clinical rationale for non-generics in partnership with medicines management colleagues.
5. Provide appropriate health promotion and preventative health care advice to all patients attending the Service.
6. Engage in the revalidation process and appraisal processes as relevant.
7. Provide data regarding performance against key performance indicators for the role.
8. Assist Front Door Assessment Team (FDAT) to ensure patients are seen in the most appropriate clinical setting.
Please note that where response levels are exceptional, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
Secondment - if you are interested in undertaking a role on a secondment basis, please ensure that you have discussed this with your current line manager prior to submitting your application. Please note if you are already an employee of ESNEFT, fixed-term roles will only be offered on a secondment basis.
When providing reference details, please provide email addresses so references can be sought promptly to cover the last 3 years of employment.
Successful candidates may be charged for their DBS check. Please ensure you read the information found in the attached DBS Information document.
The Trust is committed to its staff and their development and to equal opportunities and diversity. Applications are welcomed from all sections of the community.
In submitting an application form, you authorise East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education, and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships, and staff benefits.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of ESNEFT's core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures, and its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative, and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise, and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
On-Site Day Shift Mon-Fri between 0700 -1900 £103 per hour
On-Site Night Shift Mon-Fri between 1900 - 0700 and weekends £130 per hour
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