Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Community Sites
Town: London
Salary: p.a excl LZ
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
General Practitioner in Refugee and Asylum Seeker Services
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory, and cardiovascular services.
We are seeking to appoint a GP with a special interest in refugee and asylum seeker health, to work 20 hours per week in a specialist multi-disciplinary team working with asylum seekers and refugees across Lambeth and Southwark.
Main duties of the job
You would be providing clinical support to our multi-disciplinary team, working across asylum seeker hotels in Lambeth and Southwark, to provide health screening and access to primary care services. The role involves liaising with local GP practices, public health teams, and other stakeholders. The post holder would also attend weekly clinical meetings and monthly group clinical supervision.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You must be fully registered with the GMC, hold a License to Practice, and be on the GP Specialist Register.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Full UK GMC Registration and a Licence to Practise
* On the GMC GP Register
* On Medical National Performers List
* Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Public Health qualification or similar
Clinical Experience
* CCT as a General Practitioner with post-qualification experience as a GP
* Experience of delivering primary care to socially excluded groups
* Up-to-date on relevant national guidelines.
* Experience of working with refugees, asylum seekers, and the homeless.
* Experience of working in a mental health setting during GP training or post-qualification as a GP.
* Experience of working with interpreters.
Knowledge and Skills
* Commensurate with a GP with moderate degree of experience
* Able to work independently to manage the whole spectrum of needs of the client or refer accordingly.
* Ability to collaborate and work with multidisciplinary teams to manage illness in the community setting.
* Experience or training in medico-legal report writing
Clinical Governance, Management and IT
* Knowledge of and involvement in Clinical Governance issues including incident reporting
* Proficiency with relevant IT systems, good keyboard skills
Risk and Audit
* Understand principles of audit and Quality Improvement and evidence of contribution to effective quality improvement work
Research, teaching skills and experience
* Demonstrate an understanding of the application of evidence to practice in working with asylum seekers and refugees.
* Interest in refugee health and in the social, political, and legal context of the work.
* Defined track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of research ethics.
* Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates, and junior medical staff.
Personal Qualities
* Communication: ability to communicate clearly and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate, and ability to defuse heated situations.
* Accountability: ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions, and exert appropriate authority.
* Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to see patients as people, empathy, understanding, and listening skills.
* Resilience: Able to adapt, respond to changing circumstances, and cope with setbacks or pressure.
* Management Understanding of their performance contribution to the success of the service
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in various ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Krishna Misra
Job title: GP Clinical Lead Asylum and Refugee Health Service
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 0203 049 4700
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