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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Urgent Treatment Centre GP-Bank
Closed for applications on: 16-Mar-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 16-Mar-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Various
- Town
- Trustwide
- Postcode
- NE29 8NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Bank: Sessional GPs
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
Salary
- Salary
- £85 - £100 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP)
Specialty
- Main area
- Urgent Care
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
To work as a skilled GP within the integrated clinical team at the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs) providing acute primary care patient assessment and management.
A key part of the role will be to support other professionals, i.e. emergency nurse practitioners triage nurses and healthcare assistants, in the UTC.
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – exciting opportunities GP’s in Urgent Treatment Centres in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
The Trust has Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs) in North Tyneside General Hospital, Hexham General Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital. We are now expanding our team of GPs and wish to recruit GPs who can provide flexible cover arrangements.The work that you will manage will include a range of minor illness and minor injury conditions some of which will self-present and some will be given appointments via 111.
UTC services are commissioned to augment acute local primary care services and also to make the use of ED more appropriate by managing conditions in the environment most suited to their presentation.
You will have access to diagnostics including radiology and with support and advice available from within the integrated team on site and from ED consultant colleagues at NSECH.
Training and clinical supervision would be provided.
The posts will be based at North Tyneside General Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, and in Northumberland at Wansbeck General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital, Urgent Treatment Centres .
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be required to work within the limits of their competency in minor illness and minor injury and will be an integral part of a team which also includes primary care GPs, emergency nurse practitioners, health care assistants and advanced clinical practitioners. The post holder is expected to be as flexible as possible with regard to the locality of their work.
Patient contact will be by both planned appointments arranged via 111 and the walk in ‘see and treat’ model. At busy times this may change to ‘triage and wait’ but it will not usually involve the use of telephone advice except to clinical colleagues on request.
Patients will normally be seen within a 20-minute consultation time which may increase with those presenting with less well differentiated problems or more severe illness. Those patients requiring further investigation or intervention will be transferred to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) when stabilized.
Diagnoses will be made based on history and examination and access to a basic set of observations including urinalysis. X-ray investigations are available provided the post-holder has completed relevant IR(ME)R training and has the necessary skills in X-ray interpretation. Venous blood testing is possible if this will aid in the management of the patient.
Appointed slots via 111 should be seen within 30 minutes of arrival.
Most patients are seen, treated and discharged from the UTC. Only a minority are referred on for same day secondary care intervention.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- UK Medical Degree or recognised equivalent MRCGP or equivalent, qualification
- Full registration on the National Performer’s List
- Clinical skills necessary for managing acute presentations in primary care
- BLS (or higher level) training within the last 12 months
- Good communication skills
- Sensitivity to patient needs
- Identification of poor performance and the reporting of such matters
- Firm duty of candour
- Ability to work flexibly across the organization when required
- Good timekeeping
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in primary care ways of working
- Experienced in using GP IT clinical systems
- Knowledge of how to access local safeguarding systems
- Awareness of local protocols and formularies
- ILS /ALS qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julian Coffey
- Job title
- GP and Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
No longer accepting applications
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