Community GP

Community GP

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about looking after our most complex and frailpatients? Would you like the opportunity to lead a team who can make adifference to these vulnerable individuals?

Then this opportunity could be foryou.

North East Derbyshire PCN are recruiting for a Community GP to support our multi-disciplinary teamproviding healthcare to our housebound patients and patients in care orresidential facilities across the PCN footprint.

This job may particularly appeal to those withschool age children or commitments at the start / end of the day we are lookingfor someone to take on the role to work 5 hours in the middle of the day 10-3, 2 days per week as a job share.







The role will involve developingcontinuity relationships with our housebound patients, taking a holisticapproach to their management, and liaising with other health and social careorganisations to improve the care of these vulnerable individuals.

This will bea mix of remote and visiting work depending on the needs of the service.

There will also be a leadership aspect to the role,providing support and supervision to the Home Visiting Team andhelping to develop and evolve the service over time.

You will be supported in the role by GPs at the fourpractices within the PCN and our fantastic existing Home Visiting Team.

Main duties of the job

- Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team including debriefing after visits if needed
- Home visiting for clinically complex cases , 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 patient's own homes 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

About us

NED PCN is an organisational group of four proactive GP practices in North East Derbyshire. The Practices are Barlborough Medical Practice, Killamarsh Medical Practice, The Springs Medical Partnership and The Valleys Medical Partnership.







NED PCN is a relatively small PCN with just over 40,000 patients. We feel that this makes us big enough to develop a successful team but small enough to be an approachable, friendly place to be.

All our practicesare close to the M1 and commutable from major cities including Chesterfield,Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham.

The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations.

This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS JOB MAY CLOSE EARLIER THAN THE DATE ADVERTISED







Core practices opening hours of 8 : 00am 6 : 30pm Monday to Fridayeach week.

If you would be interested in having a confidential informal discussionabout this opportunity or for further details, please contact :

Miss Sarah Buckley, PCN Manager - or Mrs Andrea Bradley,Assistant PCN Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Successful candidate will be supporting the GP Practices across the PCN, helping to achieve the Network DES by supporting with the delivery of care to housebound and care home patients.

Person Specification

Aptitude and Personal Qualities

Essential

- Flexible, supportive, collaborative.
- Recognise the benefits of multiagency and multidisciplinary team working.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and lead a team

Desirable







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 and clinical supervision
- Evidence of leadership development

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.
- Experience of service improvement.

Desirable

Leadership of service delivery and change

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

Desirable

- Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
- Experience of medical education and clinical supervision
- Experience of using SystmOne
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.

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