Job summary
Why Work for
Us?
Would you like
to be a GP with a portfolio in supporting patients with health inequalities
& frailty? If you're interested in prevention and healthy ageing this could
be the role for you!
This role is
split between specialised Frailty sessions and core GP sessions. There is
flexibility on the number of sessions worked but we would envisage a minimum of
6 with a 50/50 split.
Frailty sessions are
renumerated at £11k/session, the GP sessions as per our attached career
structure from £10.5k - £13k/session
Main duties of the job
- Your Frailty role is integral in the development and expansion of the North Oxford Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, which aims to provide support and proactive care to vulnerable population groups
- Provide GMS services to the patient population of Banbury.
- Fairly shared administration and duty sessions.
About us
PML is a successful not-for-profit, GP-led organisation providing various NHS community and primary care clinical services to patients across Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. We have evolved as a NHS healthcare provider since 2004 and in the last few years have grown significantly, now employing around 300 staff with a turnover of circa £16m. PML holds GMS contracts, as well as being a GP Federation representing circa 50 GP practices covering approximately 650,000 patients.
We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and circumstances and people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010
Job description
Job responsibilities
Frailty
-
Patient Consultations and Medical Care within a community-based setting,
supervision for other clinicians with the team
- The
GP in Frailty will provide evidence based, comprehensive, person centred and
individualised medical care for at risk people, working as part of a
multidisciplinary team within community settings across North Oxfordshire. This
will include patients referred to the Neighbourhood Team and across other
community services, including the Primary Care Visiting Service, Hospital at
Home, Urgent Community Response Service, as part of holistic patient clinical
pathway management
-
Assisting in creating clinical pathways as part of the development of the
North Oxfordshire Neighbourhood teams project
- The
role whilst demanding and challenging will require the post holder to possess
the specialist frailty knowledge required to support the medical management of
complex and challenging presentations of older frail people and will prove
extremely varied and rewarding to the post holder. This care will be provided
through our various community frailty workstreams.
Core Functions
- The
post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, which includes
Consultant Geriatricians, GPwERs, nurses, therapists, social care, the third
sector and care home staff, to deliver high quality care and support for older
people within the community, including completion of a Comprehensive Geriatric
Assessment where clinically indicated
- The
post holder will contribute to service development, guideline development,
local protocols and pathways of care for older people with frailty & people
with health inequality, research opportunities, and governance activities such
as audit and quality improvement processes
- The
post holder will be expected to participate in the training and development of
other members of the MDT and wider healthcare community and assume a leadership
role in the care of older and at risk people in the community, developing a
network of senior clinical support within the community to ensure clinical
pathways are embedded
- The
post holder will be expected to work autonomously but will also have
supervision and clinical mentoring and training provided by Consultants, as
well as engage in peer supervision
Communication
and Relationships Skills
- To
lead and present complex, sensitive and challenging managerial and clinical
communication processes that may impact on patients, carers, staff, the team,
the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are
barriers to understanding.
- To
communicate complex information regarding personal, psycho-social problems in
an empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a range of developed
inter-personal skills in situations that can be emotional, and or antagonistic
and require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. impact of diagnosis.
-
Managerial/Lead responsibility for networking locally and nationally and
disseminate/share information with other colleagues.
- To
be able to communicate with all health and social care professionals verbally,
and through written and electronic platforms, to ensure effective, responsive,
and safe patient care
- The
post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within
the team and will strive to:
-
Communicate effectively with other team members.
-
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
-
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and
respond accordingly.
- Analytical and
Judgemental Skills/Planning and Organisational Responsibilities
- The post
will require a high level of personal organisation to deliver clinical and
managerial responsibilities. Specifically, at service level, the post holder
will have to plan and organise service development and change in areas of
responsibility. Strategically, the post holder will require being a
self-starter and taking personal responsibility for the development,
organisation and to diagnose a problem or illness and understand complex
situations or information; and judgemental skills to formulate solutions and
recommend/decide on the best course of action/treatment.
- Ability to
communicate the analysis or research that has been conducted. delivery of
service development in line with the needs of the contracted population.
The post holder will significantly
contribute to advance care planning, and Treatment Escalation Plans, for
patients within their clinical care
Physical Skills
-
Advanced keyboard skills or equivalent advanced skills for accurate
manipulation of large amounts of data/information systems as appropriate to the
role
-
Maintain up to date training and knowledge to effectively move and handle
equipment in a safe and effective manner
Responsibilities
for Patient Care
-
Making professionally autonomous decisions in relation to presenting
problems, whether self-referred or referred internally within the Practice.
-
Receives patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and
makes assessment of their health care needs.
-
Consults with patients in the surgery, at home visits and via telephone
or on- line mechanisms as agreed internally between the practice GPs.
-
Undertakes triage calls, triage visits, checking and signing of repeat
prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in
a timely fashion as required.
-
Screens patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- In
consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management
protocols, develops care plans for health.
-
Provides counselling and health education as necessary.
-
Admits or discharges patients to and from caseload and refers them to
other care providers internally and externally as appropriate and in line with
practice protocols.
-
Complies with all relevant clinical governance and Practice polices and
protocols.
-
Assists in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common
chronic medical conditions.
-
Completes clinically related administrative and non-clinical duties
needed for the delivery of the service.
-
Records clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
-
Provides active input to the wider Primary healthcare team in the process
of health needs research/base line data collection/clinical audit.
-
Compiles and issues computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions,
prescribing in accordance with the ICB prescribing formulary whenever this is
clinically appropriate.
Core GP
- Work plan: 12
x 15-minute routine appointments per session.
- Locally
provided Home Visiting service. Less than 1 visit per week typically.
- Help with
removal expenses up to £5,000 also available (subject to terms).
- A recruitment
payment applicable if you sign up for a minimum 3 year period.
- 6 weeks annual
leave/1 week study leave.
- Extra annual
leave well-being day.
- Happy to
discuss flexible working arrangements to accommodate childcare/personal
circumstances. Our surgery hours are 08.30 18.30.
- In-house
educational program. Alternating weekly clinical and GP meetings.
- No out of
hours or weekend commitments.
- Daily debrief
over coffee for all clinicians. High-quality support is given to ensure plenty
of time to focus on clinical work and professional development.
- Training and
research practice.
- Full
multidisciplinary team (Nursing team, Pharmacists, ANPs, Physios, MHP).
- We are a tier
2 visa sponsor.
- Work/Life
balance.
- Support and
contacts provided to develop your portfolio career.
Informal visits or a
telephone chat can be arranged by Sadie Ekers (GP Clinical Lead) at [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Medical Degree (MBChB , MBBS or equivalent)
- General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
- Full GMC Registration
- National Performers List registration
- MRCGP
Experience
Essential
- GP Vocational or additional experience in general practice
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Principal Medical Limited
Address
Banbury Cross Health Centre
South Bar Street
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX169AD