Community GP - home visiting service

Belper PCN

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Job summary

Are you a GP who is looking to have some variety in their work with an interest 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. Your leadership and clinical prowess can be fully applied from the start as you manage and develop an excellent community team to deliver acute home visiting service, enhanced care into care homes, anticipatory and proactive care for older people with frailty and for patients with multifaceted health problems.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a General Practitioner who aspires to promote a continuous improvement approach to leading and delivering responsive, safe, patient-centered 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 ways of working and proactively support individuals within the team to develop the necessary skills, competencies and expertise needed to deliver the service.

The number of sessions for this post can be flexible, we are looking for a maximum of 6 sessions a week, salary of around £10,500 a session depending on experience and Belper PCN offers the NHS pension scheme.

The post holder will lead a clinical team for the multidisciplinary acute home visiting service on a day-to-day basis. They will provide senior clinical triage as well as clinical support and mentorship where appropriate.

About us

Belper PCN is an association of 4 GP practices, based in and around Belper, Derbyshire that are working together to provide a selection of health services to our combined list of 45,600 patients.

The two keystones of our approach to healthcare are teamwork and innovation. We believe that by working together and being open to new ideas we can both improve the lives of our patients and contribute to the sustainability and growth of the primary care sector. We offer a flexible approach to working with support and development offered across all areas.

The PCN has a history of adopting new approaches in community care and already has an existing team of Allied Health Practitioners who have delivered real change and improvements to patient care.

Date posted

30 August 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salaried GP rates according to experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A1774-24-0002

Job locations

c/o Riversdale Surgery

Belper

Derbyshire

DE56 1AY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the following video which gives more information about the role:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_77QcLG_4

Job responsibilities

  • Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team including debriefing after visits where 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 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

Leading a clinical team to provide proactive and reactive general medical services to the housebound population, including those in care homes, in collaboration with registered practices where appropriate.

Promote and deliver a multi-skilled team response that includes GP Acute Home Visits, holistic assessment, care, pro-active follow up and care planning to maximise best care in the patients own home.

Working with our community partners to help improve the lives of people living with frailty. Looking to work towards an integrated community and clinical response across Amber Valley.

Provide medical expertise in the management of older people living with frailty in the defined community. To support ACPs and wider MDT members working in the community by:

Providing GP clinical triage for all Acute Home Visit requests to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.

Support other AHPs in the team with

Regular debrief sessions for patients on their caseload.

Formal and informal education for the ACPs during clinical interactions

Where there are difficult clinical risk decisions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the following video which gives more information about the role:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_77QcLG_4

Job responsibilities

  • Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary team including debriefing after visits where 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 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

Leading a clinical team to provide proactive and reactive general medical services to the housebound population, including those in care homes, in collaboration with registered practices where appropriate.

Promote and deliver a multi-skilled team response that includes GP Acute Home Visits, holistic assessment, care, pro-active follow up and care planning to maximise best care in the patients own home.

Working with our community partners to help improve the lives of people living with frailty. Looking to work towards an integrated community and clinical response across Amber Valley.

Provide medical expertise in the management of older people living with frailty in the defined community. To support ACPs and wider MDT members working in the community by:

Providing GP clinical triage for all Acute Home Visit requests to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.

Support other AHPs in the team with

Regular debrief sessions for patients on their caseload.

Formal and informal education for the ACPs during clinical interactions

Where there are difficult clinical risk decisions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • - A vocationally trained and accredited GP.
  • - Current registration with GMC.
  • - On the GP performers list.

Desirable

  • - Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the Elderly.
  • - Understanding of adult safeguarding and Deprivation of liberty procedures.

Personal Qualities and Skills

Essential

  • -Flexible, supportive, collaborative.
  • -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 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, to also 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.

Experience

Essential

  • - Experience and evidence of interest in care of the elderly.

Desirable

  • - 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.
  • - Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments.
  • - Experience of using SystmOne.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • - A vocationally trained and accredited GP.
  • - Current registration with GMC.
  • - On the GP performers list.

Desirable

  • - Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the Elderly.
  • - Understanding of adult safeguarding and Deprivation of liberty procedures.

Personal Qualities and Skills

Essential

  • -Flexible, supportive, collaborative.
  • -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 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, to also 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.

Experience

Essential

  • - Experience and evidence of interest in care of the elderly.

Desirable

  • - 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.
  • - Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments.
  • - Experience of using SystmOne.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Belper PCN

Address

c/o Riversdale Surgery

Belper

Derbyshire

DE56 1AY

Employer details

Employer name

Belper PCN

Address

c/o Riversdale Surgery

Belper

Derbyshire

DE56 1AY

For questions about the job, contact:

Rebecca Eve

rebecca.eve@nhs.net

07763492764

Date posted

30 August 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salaried GP rates according to experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A1774-24-0002

Job locations

c/o Riversdale Surgery

Belper

Derbyshire

DE56 1AY


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