Salaried GP in Burnley

Post: Salaried GP for Special Allocation Service (Compass Medical Practice)

Pay: £54.00 per hour to £56.50 per hour depending on experience PLUS, a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6 months (this applies to EXTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY and is pro rata to hours worked per week)

Hours: Part Time 22.5 / week to be worked on Monday, Thursday and Friday

Accountable to: Clinical Head of Primary and Community Care

Reports to: Clinical Head of Primary and Community Care

Base: Newfield House, Vicarage Lane Blackpool FY4 4EW

Welcome to FCMS! We are looking for enthusiastic GPs to join our ever-expanding team. As a GP with FCMS you will provide excellent patient care whilst playing an active role in clinical governance and training clinicians. We are a high-performance team with complimentary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support.

Main duties of the job

For this role the GP would work within our Special Allocation Service which is a GP practice for Difficult to Dr patients and those with complex needs. This is a remote practice. However, face to face appointments are undertaken in the patient's community at a clinical venue or in our mobile clinical unit with a Patient Liaison Officer present based on a risk assessment of the patient's needs. The GP would also undertake telephone / video assessments for consultations when appropriate.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of professional and administrative colleagues. As well as broad clinical practice within supportive, dynamic teams, the post includes regular dedicated time for Continuing Professional Development and study leave. The post holder also has additional responsibilities:

• The role will provide additional mentorship and support to new and evolving roles in our clinical workforce and to clinical trainees of all professions.
• The role will contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the specified location/Business Unit.
• The role will contribute to clinical innovation across the organisation.
• The role will contribute to clinical digital developments and integration across the organisation.
• The role plays a pivotal part in developing partnerships with relevant stakeholder organisations ensuring effective care pathways.

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, Attendance Bonus, Free Tea & Coffee, Eye Care Contributions.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Provide, as part of a core team of salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and other Clinicians, high quality clinical services to the populations we serve in line with local and national priorities.
• In general, the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working in a mainstream GP practice.
• Keep contemporaneous, accurate and legible records of all patient contacts and contribute to electronic data recording and audit as directed by the service.
• Contribute to evaluation/audit, significant event reporting and clinical standard setting within the service.
• Develop and encourage positive working relationships with local GP Practices, housing, social work, voluntary services, drug and alcohol, mental health, dental, secondary care and other appropriate services.
• Participate in organisational, operational and strategic planning where appropriate/required.
• Engage with continuing professional and personal development. Study leave will be provided per year, pro rata for CPD following discussion with Clinical Head of Primary and Community Care and Line Manager as part of the appraisal process. All study leave must be approved by the post holder's line manager.
• Participate in Significant Event analysis.
• Support the Management team and Clinical Manager to ensure all service KPIs/targets are met and look for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets.
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and providing skilled professional leadership.
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise. This governance meeting would form part of the full-time hours.
• The successful candidate would be expected to attend the internal Multi-Disciplinary Meeting once a month to discuss patients.
• The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.
• Identify any potential safeguarding issues, make appropriate referrals and ensure the safeguarding champion for Inclusion Health is aware.

Professional

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 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 high standards 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. Take 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.
• Make effective use of training to maintain knowledge and skills.

Physical effort and working conditions

The post holder:

• 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.

Most challenging part of the role:

Ability to work under pressure in an ever changing, challenging specialist environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of patient care. Dealing with difficult situations and people by demonstrating and exercising critical thinking skills when faced with incomplete or lack of information or complexity. Manage patient and public expectations of the service within set national targets and time constraints. Manage effective change and development within clinical areas, maintaining highly specialised knowledge and competences.

Any other duties considered relevant to the post and commensurate with the post holder's grade and as agreed by their line manager. 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

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.

Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Person Specification

• Specific Job Requirements
• Remaining calm under pressure
• Able to manage varying workloads
• High emotional intelligence
• 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
• Experience of working with clinical IT systems including EMIS, Patchs, Docman, Ardens
• Willing to try new IT systems in the future for consultations

Other

• Self-motivated
• Professional Manner

Qualifications

• Relevant Professional Qualification
• GMC Registration
• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience working in Inclusion Health / Multiple disadvantage
• Experience 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
• Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary care

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.