Urgent Primary Care Doctor (GP) - Bank

Be the clinician patients need when their care can't wait. Urgent care is General Practice at its most immediate. Patients don't always know what they need when they reach us. They may have been referred through NHS 111, redirected from an Emergency Department or walked into an Urgent Treatment Centre looking for help. What they need is an experienced doctor who can listen, assess, make confident clinical decisions and get them to the right care.

At IC24, we're looking for Urgent Primary Care Doctors to work across our Urgent Treatment Centres in East Kent, including William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate. You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary urgent care team, providing safe, timely and effective care while helping patients access the most appropriate treatment for their needs.

What you'll focus on:

• Assessing and treating patients who need urgent care: You'll provide face-to-face assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients presenting with a broad range of acute illness, minor illness and injury.
• Making confident clinical decisions: Urgent Treatment Centres require sound clinical judgement. You'll often be working with patients you haven't met before, sometimes with limited background information and sometimes when they're anxious, unwell or experiencing difficult circumstances.
• Working at the heart of urgent care: You'll work in a fast-moving clinical environment where patient needs can vary considerably from one consultation to the next.
• Working as one multidisciplinary team: Good urgent care depends on people working well together. You'll work alongside nurses, advanced practitioners, reception colleagues, other doctors and allied healthcare professionals.
• Providing the right care in the right place: Not every patient who arrives at hospital needs Emergency Department care. You'll help assess, prioritise and redirect patients where clinically appropriate.
• Maintaining excellent clinical standards: You'll work within IC24's clinical governance framework and prescribing formulary, maintaining accurate and timely clinical records.

This is urgent care - and variety comes with it. No two sessions will necessarily look the same. You'll see patients across ages and backgrounds, presenting with everything from relatively straightforward minor illness to more complex physical, mental health or social circumstances.

If you thrive here if you:

• Enjoy the variety and unpredictability of urgent care
• Are confident assessing undifferentiated patients
• Can make sound clinical decisions under pressure
• Are comfortable managing risk and uncertainty
• Have strong face-to-face consultation and triage skills
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with patients, relatives and carers
• Enjoy working within a busy multidisciplinary clinical environment
• Can adapt when service demands change unexpectedly
• Are comfortable working independently while knowing when to seek support

What you'll bring:

• Hold current GMC registration
• Be an MRCGP Graduate
• Have relevant clinical experience within areas such as Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, A&E or previous Out of Hours experience
• Have experience of face-to-face clinical consultation
• Be confident assessing and managing undifferentiated patients
• Be comfortable making autonomous clinical decisions and managing risk
• Have strong communication and clinical record-keeping skills
• Be able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team

The environment you'll work in: Urgent care operates around the needs of our patients, so flexibility is an important part of this role. Hours include evenings, weekends, overnights and Bank Holidays.

Who are we? We are Integrated Care 24 (IC24), the leading not-for-profit Social Enterprise providing innovative and patient-focused primary and urgent care services.

What's in it for you?

• Hourly pay of £58.69 per hour plus enhancements for unsociable hours
• Enhanced Bank Holiday rates
• Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
• Free 24/7 independent counselling service
• Learning and development opportunities
• Free membership to our reward and discount platform
• Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes

We celebrate brave ideas and brave people. Due to the nature of this position, employment is subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK, completion of a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure with barred list checks and three years of references. We have a duty to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of those who use our services and our employees.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all and encourage applications from ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, neurodiverse individuals, and other under-represented groups. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.

If you need any workplace adjustments during the application or interview process, or have accessibility requirements, please contact the recruitment team. Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.