Are you a GP looking for some variety in your work and who is interested in being a key part of a clinical team?
Belper PCN is looking for a Community GP to work on their established Home Visiting Service for up to 6 sessions a week and, if wanted, time in the member practices. Your leadership and clinical prowess can be fully applied from the start as you help develop an excellent community team to deliver acute home visiting service, enhanced care in care homes, and anticipatory and proactive care for older people with frailty and patients with multifaceted health problems.
Main duties of the job
We seek a General Practitioner who aspires to promote a continuous improvement approach to leading and delivering responsive, safe, patient-centred and effective care. The successful candidate will work alongside our EHP Service Clinical Lead and other clinicians to develop new and responsive clinical pathways for seamless working, challenge traditional working methods, and proactively support individuals within the team to develop the necessary skills, competencies and expertise to deliver the service.
The post holder will lead a clinical team for the multidisciplinary acute home visiting service. They will provide senior clinical triage, clinical support, and mentorship where appropriate. An interest in medical education would be beneficial.
Job responsibilities
* Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team, including debriefing after visits where needed.
* Home visits for clinically complex cases e.g., end-of-life care, diagnostic uncertainty, complex prescribing decisions.
* Senior clinical triage for the Acute Home Visiting service.
* Making professional autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems and assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
* Build relationships across the extended team, including social care, ambulance, social prescribers, community, and mental health clinicians.
* Opportunity for involvement in service development as the team expands.
* To work collaboratively with other members of the Primary Health Care Team, including participating in multi-disciplinary meetings, significant event analyses and other activities in the interest of individual and team development and improved care of patients.
* Provide holistic, comprehensive assessment and enhanced advance planning.
* Maximise the best care in the patient's own home to reduce the need for hospital or care home admissions.
* Provide end-of-life care in line with the patient's wishes.
* Quality improvement activity.
* Opportunities for teaching and mentorship.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience and evidence of interest in the care of the elderly.
* Experience in multidisciplinary working.
* Experience in senior clinical triage for Acute Home visits to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.
* Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments.
* Experience of using SystmOne.
Knowledge and skills
* Recognise the benefits of multiagency & multidisciplinary team working.
* Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with vulnerable patients and their families, carers often at the end of life or with complex care needs.
* The ability to understand the competencies of others and support them to work within and at the top of those competencies, as well as recognise and act when others are going beyond their competency.
* Ability to work effectively across traditional organisational and professional boundaries.
Qualifications
* A vocationally trained and accredited GP.
* Current registration with GMC.
* On the GP performers list.
* Experience and evidence of an interest in the Care of the Elderly.
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.
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