Job summary
We are seeking an experienced GP with an interest in frailty and urgent community care for our newly developed Trafford Crisis Response service, part of Trafford Community Response (TCR). Join us and make a difference to people who would benefit from being cared for at home, to avoid unnecessary hospital admission. Providing a 7-day service over enhanced hours, we prevent admission to hospital in a crisis by wrapping integrated care around our patients to make them safe and stabilise in the home/community for 48hrs.
This is an exciting time to be part of our emerging integrated multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team providing specialist rapid assessment and interventions to our local population. As a GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in TCR, you will use your skills and experience in practising medicine holistically, managing risk and dealing with complexity and uncertainty, to provide holistic comprehensive assessment of patients with urgent medical needs and develop appropriate management plans to support patients to remain at home, wherever possible.
Main duties of the job
We are a compassionate, caring multi-disciplinary team, passionate about our strength-based approach to working in partnership with our patient's goals and motivations to help individuals realise their potential to regain independence. If you are as passionate as we are about supporting people to stay in their own home give us a call, we'd love to hear from you, or apply now and we look forward to meeting you at interview.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Professional qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Medical degree
- Qualified General Practitioner, (completed certificate of Completion of Training - CCT)
- MRCGP or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration and License to Practice.
- Certificate of Completion of Training in General Practice.
- Inclusion or eligibility for inclusion on the Manchester Performers List
Desirable
- Minimum 2 years post CCT
- Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
- Relevant Higher Degree or management qualification/training.
Experience and skills
Essential
- Broad experience in primary care and management of frailty/ older people and/ or with multi-morbidity including presentations and management of older people with mental illness
- Management of delirium in a community and setting.
- Discussion and implementation of ReSPECT forms and advanced care planning with patients and families.
- Palliative care and best practice at end of life
- Broad if not detailed knowledge of how NHS community services work across the Central LCO.
- Ability to use IT systems.(Training will be provided.)
- Possess good organizational and teaching skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent record keeping skills
- Excellent time management
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to work well as a member of a team
Desirable
- Working within a multi- disciplinary team
- Experience of working in Intermediate Care
- Primary and secondary care interface experience relevant to the patient cohort, e.g. GPSI role
- Supported self-directed teams / approaches to manage care
Teaching, training and learning
Essential
- Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching, teaching training and mentoring of nurses and allied professionals
- Evidence of annual appraisal and revalidation
Desirable
- Commitment to and aptitude for the teaching and training of staff from a range of health-related disciplines
- GP Trainer
- GP Appraiser
- Teaching qualification such as Post graduate certificate in medical education.
Research / audit / publications
Essential
- Ability to supervise audit projects
- Demonstration of participation in audit
- Understanding of the principles of audit/research
Desirable
- Experience of involvement in a research project and publication or published audit project
- Certificate of "Good Clinical Practice" in research
Professionalism
Essential
- Enthusiasm and commitment to the service
- Encourage best practice through clinical leadership and professional development, training and education
- Positive approach to job planning and appraisal process
- Commitment to personal and professional development
- Commitment to education and training
Desirable
- Experience of working in Community Services
Other
Essential
- Car owner with full driving license
- Fitness to undertake all aspects of post
- DBS Clearance
Person Specification
Professional qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Medical degree
- Qualified General Practitioner, (completed certificate of Completion of Training - CCT)
- MRCGP or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration and License to Practice.
- Certificate of Completion of Training in General Practice.
- Inclusion or eligibility for inclusion on the Manchester Performers List
Desirable
- Minimum 2 years post CCT
- Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
- Relevant Higher Degree or management qualification/training.
Experience and skills
Essential
- Broad experience in primary care and management of frailty/ older people and/ or with multi-morbidity including presentations and management of older people with mental illness
- Management of delirium in a community and setting.
- Discussion and implementation of ReSPECT forms and advanced care planning with patients and families.
- Palliative care and best practice at end of life
- Broad if not detailed knowledge of how NHS community services work across the Central LCO.
- Ability to use IT systems.(Training will be provided.)
- Possess good organizational and teaching skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent record keeping skills
- Excellent time management
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to work well as a member of a team
Desirable
- Working within a multi- disciplinary team
- Experience of working in Intermediate Care
- Primary and secondary care interface experience relevant to the patient cohort, e.g. GPSI role
- Supported self-directed teams / approaches to manage care
Teaching, training and learning
Essential
- Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching, teaching training and mentoring of nurses and allied professionals
- Evidence of annual appraisal and revalidation
Desirable
- Commitment to and aptitude for the teaching and training of staff from a range of health-related disciplines
- GP Trainer
- GP Appraiser
- Teaching qualification such as Post graduate certificate in medical education.
Research / audit / publications
Essential
- Ability to supervise audit projects
- Demonstration of participation in audit
- Understanding of the principles of audit/research
Desirable
- Experience of involvement in a research project and publication or published audit project
- Certificate of "Good Clinical Practice" in research
Professionalism
Essential
- Enthusiasm and commitment to the service
- Encourage best practice through clinical leadership and professional development, training and education
- Positive approach to job planning and appraisal process
- Commitment to personal and professional development
- Commitment to education and training
Desirable
- Experience of working in Community Services
Other
Essential
- Car owner with full driving license
- Fitness to undertake all aspects of post
- DBS Clearance
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
