Job summary
Employer heading
Salaried GP Luton Urgent Treatment Centre
Job overview
HUC is a positive force for change. We’re transforming health provision
to make it smarter, faster and more responsive to patients’ needs.
HUC provides the NHS111 and Out of Hours GP service to over 4.5 million patients across Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, West Essex and the South West of England.
We have an opportunity for a salaried GP in our Luton Urgent Treatment Centre Team.
The post is full-time post Monday -Sunday 0800-20.00. (this can either be a 6 or 12 hour shift)
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached job description
Working for our organisation
You'll be able to access a fantastic range of benefits. These include:
- 25 days annual leave + public holidays (pro-rata)
- 5 days study leave per year
- NHS Pension Scheme – you can opt in or out of the scheme
- Indemnity Reimbursement
- GMC Reimbursement (exclusions apply)
- Company sick pay
- Wide-ranging continuous professional development programme including support with appraisal/revalidation
- Supportive environment with senior clinical-on-call support available at all times
- Career development opportunities including the Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow Scheme, clinical supervision and involvement with educational programmes audit, peer reviews and much more
- NHS and employee lifestyle perks and discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive organisation. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender/sex, gender reassignment/trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and socio-economic status.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principle Responsibilities will Include:
- Represent HUC and the NHS in a manner consistent with the General Medical Council’s “Good Medical Practice” to ensure that there is consistency, and that best practice is shared across all HUC’s clinical services.
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to individual patients presenting problems
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
- Prescribing in accordance with the HUC prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
- Manage the case list effectively to reduce demand on face-to-face services including ambulance dispositions, A&Es and UCCs/MIUs and OOHs
- Ensure that all cases are managed and/or seen in good time but provide support to patients or reallocate if there is delay
- Work closely with all other operational managers on duty to provide a seamless service and ensure that clinical and quality outcomes are met
- Ensure best practice is followed for safeguarding and clinical governance
- In summary the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP in General Practice and Urgent Care Settings
- Take part in monthly productivity review if required
- Expectations
- 4-6 telephone triage calls per hour
- Base 4 per hour
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Be a practising GP
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Neil Murdoch
- Job title
- Head of Recruitment and People Operations SW
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
We are a disability confident employer. If you are applying under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please let the recruitment team know.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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