County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has five urgent care centres across the Trust.
We are looking to recruit forward-thinking enthusiastic General Practitioners to join our team of salaried GPs working in our out of hours Urgent Treatment Centres.
We have vacancies/various shifts available in Bishop Auckland and Durham centres.
Our urgent care centres provide a home visiting service, telephone advice, and face-to-face consultations for patients requiring urgent and emergency care.
Main duties of the job
Working on SystmOne in our out of hours service, you will receive referrals from 111, paramedics, and walk-in patients.
You will be expected to prioritise and co-ordinate your workload in collaboration with the Shift Coordinator, which includes telephone and face-to-face consultations, laboratory results, home visits, and walk-in patients who attend our service with minor injuries and illnesses.
You will be working alongside advanced practitioners and healthcare assistant/drivers.
Job responsibilities
Working in collaboration with our other centres and local Emergency Departments, we provide an out of hours GP led urgent treatment service.
As part of a whole team approach to providing effective cover across all our Urgent Treatment Centres, you may be asked on occasion to work across other sites.
Person Specification
Special Requirements
* Ability to remain alert at unsocial hours
* Positive approach to change
* Flexible to service needs
Experience
* Recent general practice experience including out of hours work
* Experience of telephone consultations
* Paediatrics
* Palliative Care
* Mental health
* Minor Injury Management
* Relevant experience of working independently in General Practice
Qualifications
* 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
* Registered on a regional Performers list with no restrictions to practise
* Not suspended or disqualified from practise or on any conditional inclusion list with any NHS organisation.
* DCH/DCCH and or DRCOG
Statutory Registration
* GMC registration with no working restrictions
* GP Qualification
Special Skills & Knowledge
* Primary Care
* GP Out of Hours National Quality Requirements
* Good 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
* Mobility around the area
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
£105,504 to £139,882 a year GP00 Payscale per annum pro rata.
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