Out of Hours Salaried General Practitioner

Job summary

Out of Hours / Urgent Care Salaried GP £134,693 per annum with the opportunity to earn more through overtime and additional hours.

Berkshire Healthcare is seeking dedicated general practitioners (GPs) to join our Urgent Care Out of Hours service (WestCall) which provides urgent medical advice and assessment to all patients living in the Berkshire West area when daytime primary care is closed. We are keen to recruit additional salaried GPs who are at any stage of their career and can provide face to face patient care. This may be colleagues who have recently completed their GP training or GPs that are further along in their career and wish to develop their portfolio career or are simply looking for a new challenge.

Operating weekdays between 6:30pm to 8am and 24 hours across weekends and bank holidays, our service provides advice and treatment for patients who have called 111 and require urgent primary care management or have been triaged from the Emergency Department.

This role is a face-to-face clinical role based at our Primary Care Centre at the West Berkshire Community Hospital in Thatcham, Berkshire. The hours we currently have on offer are Saturday 18:00-00:00 and Sunday 08:00 - 00:00. You will not be required to work every weekend or every Saturday and/or Sunday. A rotation/pattern of working hours is available.

Main duties of the job

As part of our innovative team, we will provide you with all thediagnostic equipment required to undertake the role including access to the latest clinical software and point of care testing. We provide a driver and a vehicle for your home visits. Primary Care Centre health care assistants are at hand to take baseline observations on your patients as well as to assist you in conducting ECG and urine analysis on request. This allows clinicians more time to deal with the patients presenting problem.

• Provide timely clinical care at our Primary Care Centres based at the West Berkshire Community Hospital.

• Access to hospital discharge letters and patient test results which facilitates safe patient care and minimises clinical risk.

• To ensure that where appropriate, the patient is referred for further management with the relevant service, e.g. secondary care specialities, urgent community response and other community services.

• To contribute to the training and development of Clinical and non-clinical staff, e.g. GP registrars, Trainee Advanced Practitioners, Paramedics.

• Work within local prescribing guidelines (SCAN/Microguide) with the ability to prescribe electronically.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.