Welcome to FCMS! We are looking for enthusiastic GPs to join our ever-expanding team. Providing excellent patient care, playing an active part in teaching and training clinicians. Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We are a high-performance team with complimentary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support, maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer!
Our Services - We have a number of services across the Fylde Coast, Morecambe Bay, Rossendale, West Lancashire and Doncaster. These include GP Out of Hours services, Urgent Treatment Centres, and a range of other Primary Care Services including Enhanced Access (Fylde Coast) and Special Allocation Services (Lancashire / Cumbria).
Pay: £73,850 - £110,775 (dependent on skills & experience and pro-rata to the hours worked)
On appointment, this role will attract a Golden Hello of £2500 *dependent on contracted hours*. This is paid in instalments, the first half is paid after the first 3 months of employment and the second half is paid after 6 months of employment.
Hours: Full time is 37 hours (Part-time and term time hours will be considered).
Location: Across our Morecambe sites.
Main duties of the job
Role
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of professional and administrative colleagues. You will provide consultations and appropriate clinical management to patients attending with injury and illness to services, either face to face or virtually. As well as broad clinical practice within supportive, dynamic teams, the post includes regular dedicated time for Continuing Professional Development and study leave.
Working with FCMS gives opportunity for flexible working across a range of hours including daytime, weekend, evenings and overnights. Term time hours and hybrid working will also be considered.
We can also offer the opportunity to learn and develop your skills across different disciplines as well as share your expertise with your colleagues. We empower a collaborative learning environment so you can do what you do best each day.
About us
The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualize, develop, and implement award-winning services.
Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.
Job responsibilities
The role will provide additional mentorship and support to new and evolving roles in our clinical workforce and to clinical trainees of all professions. The role will contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the specified location/Business Unit. The role will contribute to clinical innovation across the organization. The role will contribute to clinical digital developments and integration across the organization. The role will play a pivotal part in developing partnerships with relevant stakeholder organizations ensuring effective care pathways.
The post holder will:
* Provide, as part of a core team of salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and other Clinicians, high quality clinical services to the populations we serve in line with local and national priorities.
* Undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working in Planned and/or Urgent Care.
* Keep contemporaneous, accurate and legible records of all patient contacts and contribute to electronic data recording and audit as directed by the service.
* Contribute to evaluation/audit, significant event reporting and clinical standard setting within the service.
* Develop and encourage positive working relationships with local GP Practices, housing, social work, voluntary services, drug and alcohol, mental health, dental, secondary care and other appropriate services.
* Participate in organisational, operational and strategic planning where appropriate/required.
* Engage with continuing professional and personal development. Eight days study leave per year will be provided, pro rata, for CPD following discussion with the Organisational Medical Director during the appraisal process. All study leave must be approved by the post holder's line manager.
* Participate in Significant Event analysis.
* Support the Management team and Clinical Nurse Manager(s) to ensure all service KPIs/targets are met, and look for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets.
* Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and providing skilled professional leadership.
* Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise.
* Clinical Governance duties including attending clinical governance meetings, managing incidents, complaints and audit.
Professional
The post holder will:
* Ensure full accreditation and requirements of practice to include full registration with GMC license to practice, membership of an appropriate defence body (if required) and delivery of annual evidence for appraisal or accreditation purposes in keeping with national requirements.
* Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence based best practice. Attend training, professional meetings and organised events.
* Maintain the highest standard of cleanliness and hygiene at all times. Remain aware of and compliant with all Infection Prevention and Control guidelines.
* Work within the boundaries of your relevant professional Code of Conduct.
Communication and working relationships
Communicates effectively with other team members, patients and carers, and other healthcare professionals. Takes all appropriate steps to minimise conflict.
Health and safety
The post holder will:
* Comply with safety policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
* Comply with the organisations Business Continuity Plan.
* Refrain from the wilful misuse or interference with equipment provided in the interest of Health and Safety.
* Report as soon as is practically possible any hazards or defects.
* Report as soon as is practically possible accidents or untoward incidents and ensure appropriate incident reporting documentation is completed.
* Be actively involved as an appropriate departmental representative.
* Make effective use of training to maintain knowledge and skills.
Physical effort and working conditions.
The post holder will:
* Be responsible to ensure all aspects of the Manual Handling guidelines are followed, providing appropriate risk assessments.
* Be responsible for managing clinical care following required Policies and Procedures pertaining to bodily fluids, infection control and COSHH regulations resulting in frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
* Be responsible for managing challenging situations and people, with some exposure to hazards, e.g., violent and abusive patients, child abuse, critically ill patients.
* Manage own time effectively within variable shift patterns.
Most challenging part of the role:
Ability to work under pressure in an ever changing, challenging specialist environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of patient care. Dealing with difficult situations and people by demonstrating and exercising critical thinking skills when faced with incomplete or lack of information or complexity. Manage patient and public expectations of the service within set national targets and time constraints. Manage effective change and development within clinical areas, maintaining highly specialised knowledge and competences.
Any other duties considered relevant to the post and commensurate with the post holder's grade and as agreed by their line manager.
The main duties and responsibilities above are not exhaustive and should merely be regarded as a guide. These are subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the changing needs of the service. The job holder will be expected to participate in this process and the company would aim to reach agreement to changes.
The job holder will be expected to conduct any reasonable activities according to the service needs at that time.
Disability Confident Employer - As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
The role is subject to a DBS check which will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant Professional Qualification
* GMC Registration
* Experience in Urgent Care
Experience
* Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality.
* Evidence of excellent clinical record.
* Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
* Evidence of significant involvement in change.
* Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within Primary Care and/or Urgent care/OOH.
* Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians.
* Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environments.
* Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills.
* Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources.
* Able to articulate personal development needs.
* Implementation of audit/research recommendations.
* Excellent communication and leadership skills.
* Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
* Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
* Experience of working with clinical IT systems including Adastra, and/or System 1 or EMIS.
Other
* Self-motivated.
* Approachable with a warm personality and good sense of humour!
Specific Job Requirements
* Remaining calm under pressure.
* Able to manage varying workloads.
* High emotional intelligence.
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.
£73,850 to £110,775 a year skills dependent & experience / pro-rata to hours worked.
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