General Practitioner OOH - PCC / UTC - Central London

Our well respected and renowned London Based National Health Client provides urgent medical advice and assessment to all patients living in the Central London area when normal primary care is closed. Operating between 6:30pm to 8am weekdays and 24 hours across weekends and bank holidays, the service provides advice and treatment for patients that have either called 111 or have entered the service through other means and require urgent primary care management. The service is provided by a multi-disciplinary team that includes GPs, Nurse and Paramedic practitioners, administrative and operational colleagues, all working together to provide clinical care from various Central London bases, over the telephone or during a home visit.

The service is now seeking to recruit GPs to join their workforce in the GP OOH service. The current vacant shifts are predominantly face to face and available in the evening and overnight period 7 days a week - priority will be given to GPs who can commit to working face to face shifts during the evenings and overnights. If you are an interested GP and are seeking daytime shifts across the week or only telephone triage work, please be aware that availability of these shifts is limited but still available.

We are keen to recruit GPs to our team that are at any stage of their career and can work any number of hours up to full time on a contract basis. This may be colleagues who have recently completed GP training or GPs that are further along in their career and wish to develop their portfolio career or are simply looking for a new challenge. We can offer an individually tailored induction programme to help you settle into your role followed by ongoing professional support from case review and peer feedback, all of which is designed to help you become an experienced and skilled OOH clinician.

Generally, the role requires similar skills to those of an in-hours GP although the following additional skills are desirable but not essential (as support and learning opportunities can be provided):

• Experience in palliative care and use of controlled drugs
• Catheter Management

Person Specification

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice as a General Practitioner
• Inclusion on Medical Performers List
• Evidence of working in either in, or out of hours General Practice in the last 12 months
• GP OOH Experience or other urgent care settings (Desirable, not essential)

Ability and Knowledge

• Ability to make appropriate assessments in the management of Primary Care patients
• Ability to use the current evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making
• Experience of conducting clinical audit (Desired, not essential)

Qualifications

• Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check (Online and updated desirable)

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. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Shifts for this role are immediately available, and our client is quick to move on registering the right candidates to come in and make a positive difference to the current workforce.