Community GP – Team up Derbyshire
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Community GP, Team Up! Derbyshire (sessions negotiable)
North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Limited
The closing date is 21 May 2023
Job summary
Are you enthusiastic about providing holistic care for frail patients?
Do you want a role which transcends the traditional boundaries of health and social care?
Do you want an alternative to the current model of General Practice, where you can spend more time with the most complex patients?
South Hardwick PCN are looking for a Community GP to support our multi-disciplinary team providing healthcare to our housebound patients and patients in care or residential facilities across the PCN footprint.
To understand more about the role of a Community GP, please see this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_77QcLG_4
This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of the delivery of our new Ageing Well model of care - Team Up! Derbyshire. The role transcends the traditional health and social care organisational boundaries. It will involve true MDT working, building relationships with GP practices, Community Rapid Response services and Falls services, to help clinically deliver the service on a day-to-day basis.
This is an evolving service, so you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of Team Up! and the Home Visiting Service if you wish to.
Main duties of the job
South Hardwick PCN are seeking to recruit a team of Community GPs to work alongside a multi-disciplinary team providing care to housebound patients and patients in care or residential facilities, either in person or remotely.
The aim for the service is to ultimately provide a holistic approach to acute on-the-day/rapid response services, enhanced health in care homes and enhanced proactive care for older people with frailty and patients with multi-faceted health problems.
Key Duties Tasks and Responsibilities
Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team including debriefing after visits if needed
Home visiting for clinically complex cases e.g., end of life care, diagnostic uncertainty, complex prescribing decisions
Senior clinical triage for the Acute Home Visiting service
Build relationships across the extended team including, but not limited to social care, ambulance, social prescribers, community, and mental health clinicians.
Opportunity for involvement in service development as the team expands
Involvement in MDT meetings
Provide holistic comprehensive assessment and enhanced advance planning
Maximise best care in the patients own homes to reduce the need for hospital or care home admissions.
Provide end of life care in line with the patients wishes
Quality improvement activity
Opportunities for teaching and mentorship
About us
South Hardwick Primary Care Network is a group of 9 forward thinking and progressive practices (population 68,207) who have developed friendly and effective working relationships with each other.
South Hardwick is a mix of former mining communities, suburbs, and rural communities to the south of Chesterfield.
Your employer would be North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Ltd, and you would be entitled to NHS pension.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The key duties, tasks and responsibilities can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Aptitude and Personal Qualities
Essential
Flexible, supportive, collaborative.
Recognise the benefits of multiagency & multidisciplinary team working.
Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Values, Drivers and Motivators
Essential
A Passion for excellent, holistic, patient centred care for older people with frailty
Qualifications
Essential
A vocationally trained and accredited GP
Current registration with GMC
On the GP performers list
Desirable
MRCGP
Recognised qualification in Care of the Elderly
Recognised qualification in medical education/clinical supervision
Evidence of leadership development
Experience
Essential
Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the Elderly
Understanding of adult safeguarding and Deprivation of liberty procedures
Experience of multidisciplinary working
Experience of senior clinical triage for the Acute Home Visiting to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.
Desirable
Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Experience of medical education/clinical supervision
Experience of using SystmOne or another clinical system
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
The ability to understand the competencies of others and support them to work within and at the top of those competencies. Also, to recognise and act when others are going beyond their competency.
Ability to work effectively across traditional organisational and professional boundaries.
Excellent organisational and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
Desirable
Leadership of service delivery / change.
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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