Salaried GP in Morecambe

Welcome to FCMS!

Pay: £50.81 - 57.62 per hour plus adjustments for nights and weekends. Golden hello £2500 offered paid in instalments over first 6 months pro rata.

Hours: Up to full time available (37.5hrs/week). Shift patterns: Negotiable 0800 – 2000hrs (MUTC), 1900 – 0000hrs (OOH), 0000 – 0800hrs (OOH).

Location: Morecambe Urgent Care

FCMS is a high-performing organisation built on teamwork, innovation, and a shared commitment to delivering outstanding patient care. We are proud of our open and supportive culture, where individual strengths are recognised and developed, new ideas are encouraged, and colleagues work collaboratively to continually improve the services we provide.

The Salaried GP will be a core member of the multidisciplinary clinical team working across the Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), GP Out of Hours (OOH) Service, Home Visiting Service, and Clinical Assessment Service (CAS). Unlike sessional GPs, the Salaried GP is expected to contribute to the strategic and operational development of services, support the clinical governance team, provide supervision and mentorship to colleagues, and actively contribute to innovation and service improvement across the business unit.

The post includes protected non-clinical time to support these additional responsibilities, alongside regular Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and study leave.

About us: The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award-winning services. Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do. Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer:

• NHS Pension
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Career Development Opportunities
• Attendance Bonus
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities:

Clinical Responsibilities:

The post holder will:

• Provide high-quality, safe and effective assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, and management of patients presenting with a wide range of urgent and unscheduled care needs.
• Deliver consultations through multiple modalities including face-to-face, remote consultation, telephone triage and Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) support.
• Undertake Out of Hours home visits where clinically appropriate.
• Provide clinical support and advice to multidisciplinary colleagues working within UTC and OOH services.
• Maintain contemporaneous, accurate and legally compliant clinical records.
• Ensure care is delivered in accordance with national guidelines, organisational policies and evidence-based practice.
• Participate fully in service delivery across UTC, OOH and home visiting services.

Leadership and Person in charge Responsibilities:

The Salaried GP will play an active leadership role within the service by:

• Acting as Person in Charge (PIC) when required, providing clinical leadership and operational oversight of the service.
• Supporting clinical decision-making and escalation processes for colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
• Contributing to workforce planning and operational discussions to support service resilience and performance.
• Supporting clinical and operational managers to achieve contractual KPIs, quality standards and service objectives.
• Championing a positive culture of professionalism, accountability, learning and continuous improvement.

Clinical Governance Responsibilities:

The post holder will:

• Actively contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda across North, East and West Lancashire business units.
• Participate in and lead audits, quality improvement projects, and service evaluations in agreement with the NEWL Clinical manager.
• Investigate and contribute to the management of complaints, incidents, Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSII), Significant Events and Learning Reviews.
• Attend and contribute to governance meetings and multidisciplinary learning forums.
• Provide expert clinical opinion during case reviews and governance discussions.
• Support compliance with CQC standards, national quality requirements, and organisational governance frameworks.
• Undertake Clinical Guardian audits both individually and as part of a senior group review panel and other governance activities as required.

Education, Supervision and Workforce Development:

The post holder will:

• Provide mentorship, supervision and support to newly appointed clinicians and developing roles including Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs).
• Provide educational support and supervision to GP Specialty Trainees (ST2/ST3) and other learners (i.e. Trainee ACPs / Non-medical prescribers).
• Contribute to clinical teaching, case-based learning and workforce development initiatives.
• Promote multidisciplinary learning and foster a supportive learning environment.
• Support the development of clinical competencies and professional standards across the workforce.

Professional Responsibilities:

The post holder will:

• Ensure full accreditation and requirements of practice to include full registration with GMC license to practice, membership of an appropriate defence body (if required) and delivery of annual evidence for appraisal or accreditation purposes in keeping with national requirements.
• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Attend training, professional meetings and organised events.
• Maintain the highest standard of cleanliness and hygiene at all times.
• Remain aware of and compliant with all Infection Prevention and Control guidelines.
• Work within the boundaries of your relevant professional Code of Conduct.

Communication and working relationships:

Communicates effectively with other team members, patients and carers, and other healthcare professionals. Takes all appropriate steps to minimise conflict.

Health and safety:

The post holder will:

• Comply with safety policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
• Comply with the organisations Business Continuity Plan.
• Refrain from the wilful misuse or interference with equipment provided in the interest of Health and Safety.
• Report as soon as is practically possible any hazards or defects.
• Report as soon as is practically possible accidents or untoward incidents and ensure appropriate incident reporting documentation is completed.
• Be actively involved as an appropriate departmental representative and attend meetings relevant to the role.
• Make effective use of training to maintain knowledge and skills.

Physical effort and working conditions:

The post holder will:

• Be responsible to ensure all aspects of the Manual Handling guidelines are followed, providing appropriate risk assessments.
• Be responsible for managing clinical care following required Policies and Procedures pertaining to bodily fluids, infection control and COSHH regulations resulting in frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
• Be responsible for managing challenging situations and people, with some exposure to hazards, e.g., violent and abusive patients, child abuse, critically ill patients.
• Manage own time effectively within variable shift patterns.

The main duties and responsibilities above are not exhaustive and should merely be regarded as a guide. These are subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the changing needs of the service. The job holder will be expected to participate in this process and the company would aim to reach agreement to changes. The job holder will be expected to conduct any reasonable activities according to the service needs at that time.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness
• Living authentically
• Adaptability - Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness - What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit - Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun - Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself
• Compassion, empathy, kindness, and care are the cornerstones of our behaviours.

We expect all our staff to display these key traits in abundance, not only when dealing with patients but when interacting with anyone: a member of staff, a colleague from a partner organisation or even being able to show self-compassion!

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation, and disruption so that people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

• Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
• Awesome: We aren't here to be average, we're here to be awesome!
• Humble: We're here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become.
• Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done.
• Oompf: We have natural oompf! It's infectious!
• Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity.

Disability Confident Employer - As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

DBS - The role is subject to a DBS check which will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Relevant Professional Qualification
• GMC Registration
• Minimum of 6 months experience in GP including Out of Hours Experience

Experience:Essential:

• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
• Experienced in independently managing EoL patients and home visits.
• Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality.
• Evidence of excellent clinical record.
• Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
• Evidence of significant involvement in change.
• Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within Primary Care and/or Urgent care/OOH.

Desirable:

• Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians.

Other:Essential:

• Self-motivated
• Authentic
• Approachable with warm personality and good sense of humour!

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:Essential:

• Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environments.
• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources.
• Able to articulate personal development needs.
• Implementation of audit/research recommendations.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
• Teaching/mentorship qualification and experience.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with clinical IT systems including Adastra, and/or CLEO or EMIS.

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.