Community GP – Riversdale Surgery
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Community GP AHVS
Belper PCN
Closing date – 14th July 2022
Job summary
Join us in our venture to provide a successful and integrated Home Visiting Service to our patients in the Belper area. Your leadership and clinical prowess can be fully applied from the start as you lead and develop a community team to ultimately provide an holistic approach to our 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.
We are looking for a Community General Practitioner with a strong interest in working with people with frailty and 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 other clinicians to develop new and responsive clinical pathways for seamless working, shape and champion the introduction of new clinical roles, 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 hours for this post can be flexible. Number of sessions per week negotiable. Ad hoc locum sessions can be considered and Belper PCN offers the NHS pension scheme.
The post holder will lead a clinical team for the multidisciplinary home visiting service on a day-to-day basis. They will provide senior clinical triage as well as clinical support and mentorship where appropriate and undertake home visits where necessary.
The aim of the ‘Team Up’ home visiting service is to deliver responsive and safe care and to reduce inappropriate admissions to hospital and support patients who are leaving hospital to return and recover at home; as well as help support people to live well and independently at home for longer.
Main duties of the job
To lead a team of highly skilled and dedicated practitioners including ACPs, paramedics and care coordinators to provide acute visits to patients in their own homes or care homes. To provide clinical leadership and promote a multidisciplinary team response.
To ensure the national goals and targets for response are met and to help with auditing and reporting metrics for the service.
To work well with other agencies including social care, mental health, therapy and district nursing to promote continuity of care
To help lead regular MDTs to discuss complex patients and support the team with debrief sessions as needed.
To lead hand over to the out of hours team at the end of the working day
About us
Belper PCN is a formal association of 4 GP practices, based in and around Belper, that are working together to provide a selection of health services to our combined list of 45,000 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leading a clinical team to provide proactive and reactive general medical services to the housebound population, including those in are 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;
Ensure that the Acute Home Visiting and Community Rapid Response Service that supports and links well to system infrastructure provided at a bigger scale e.g. Acute Hospitals, 999, 111, Ambulance services and social care;
Developing expertise within the community for improving the lives of people living with frailty.
Maximise best care in the patient’s own home in order to reduce the need for hospital or care home admissions.
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 Senior 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
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- 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
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of senior clinical triage to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need
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 tab).
Employer Details
Employer name
Belper PCN
Location
c/o Riversdale Surgery
Belper
Derbyshire
DE56 1AY
For help with your application, contact:
Sophie Axford
01773880099
Date posted
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
A1774-21-2222
Job locations
c/o Riversdale Surgery
Belper
Derbyshire
DE56 1AY
Whitemoor Lane
Belper
Derbyshire
DE56 0JB
Main Street
Horsley Woodhouse
Ilkeston
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