Site Northampton Town Northampton Salary £59,175 - £110,330 Dependant on experience Salary period Yearly Closing 04/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Northampton General Hospital is looking for 2 salaried GPs (Specialty Doctors) to join our busy Urgent Treatment Centre. We can offer opportunities on a fixed term contract basis and although we would ideally like 10 sessions per week, we would be happy to discuss this.
We use Symphony as our clinical system and offer an open access model to our patients. Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to support and care for a diverse patient group.
Main duties of the job
* Undertaking a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion;
* Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation;
* Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems;
* Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness;
* Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols;
* Delivering enhanced services;
* Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions;
* All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Undertaking a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion;
* Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation;
* Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems;
* Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness;
* Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols;
* Delivering enhanced services;
* Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions;
* All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Person specification
Knowledge and Expertise
* Significant ED or UTC experience
* Experience of Clinical Governance processes
* Competent with IT systems
Qualification
* MRCGP trained or ST3 trainee (Fully qualified)
* Full GMC registration
* Special interest in UTC and ED
Registration
* On GMC registered Medical Practitioner GMC specialist registration or within 6 months of CCT
Teaching
* Experience of teaching/supervision, training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
Management and Audit
* Understanding the principles of clinical governance and its implications
* Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
* Ability to organise research and work within research governance procedures
* Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures
* Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
* IT skills and computer literacy
* Understanding and experience of audit
Research/publications
* Knowledge of research methodology
* Training in research methodology
* Publications in peer review journals
* Presentations to learned societies
Language
* Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Personal Skills
* Energy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
* Team player
* Adaptable/Flexible/energetic and enthusiastic
* To be a reflective practitioner
* An enquiring and critical approach to work
* Caring attitude to patients
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other staff
* Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
* Commitment to deliver a high quality service with patient welfare at forefront of practice
* Challenge accepted practice
* Drive change management
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
* Compassion
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courageous
* Accountable
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Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE VACANCIES PRIOR TO THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE WHEN WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS.
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