Newly Qualified Salaried GP in Eastbourne

This post is for a newly qualified General Practitioner who is fully GMC registered and is confident working autonomously across varied clinical settings. The post holder will be required to deliver clinical services across multiple SDHC sites, including, but not limited to, Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing, the Intermediate Care Ward at Eastbourne District General Hospital, and other SDHC operational locations according to service needs. This post will require the GP to work some evenings and weekends.

This is a predominantly clinical, cross-setting GP role, with 90% or more of contracted hours focused on direct patient care. You will work autonomously across SDHC services, managing a varied and often complex caseload across primary, intermediate and virtual care settings.

Your main duties will include:

• Delivering evidence-based care
• Assessing and managing patients with complex needs and long-term conditions
• Prescribing safely
• Making autonomous clinical decisions
• Referring or escalating patients appropriately

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to provide coordinated, seamless care across services, while maintaining high-quality clinical records and promoting prevention, healthy living and patient wellbeing. The role also includes occasional supervision and mentoring of GP trainees and colleagues, participation in research projects with partners such as NIHR and universities, and contribution to audit, quality improvement, patient safety and shared learning.

You will also support service development by sharing best practice, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement, and using your clinical experience to help shape how care is delivered across SDHC.

Benefits of Working with SDHC:

• NHS Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing in stages to 30 days holiday plus bank holidays after 5 years service (pro rata for part time hours)
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to counselling and support with legal and financial matters
• CycleScheme
• Christmas and summer events
• Discounted rate for membership of Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing Centre facilities

Job responsibilities include:

• Clinical Delivery (90 percent or more of contracted hours)
• Directly helping to deliver on SDHC's contractual requirements to provide clinical capacity in all commissioned and private services
• Practising evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
• Prescribing in line with local and national guidelines
• Referring patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate
• Managing long-term conditions and patients with complex problems as needed
• Promoting healthy living strategies and giving health and wellbeing advice
• Making autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients' health needs
• Participating in research projects delivered by SDHC

Communication responsibilities include:

• Providing professional telephone and written advice and support to patients and their carers
• Responding to queries from patients and staff in a professional manner

Leadership responsibilities include:

• Being accountable and responsible for own actions
• Contributing to the continual improvement of SDHC services
• Providing leadership within your team
• Supporting team members to deliver excellent service

Working Relationships involve:

• Collaborating with members of the SDHC team
• Liaising with other SDHC teams to ensure patients receive the best care

Patient & Public Involvement includes:

• Optimising patient well-being
• Engaging with patients and stakeholders
• Ensuring the patient voice is heard

Risk Management involves:

• Promoting a culture of sharing learning events
• Contributing to a learning event register
• Highlighting issues and risks within the services

Audit responsibilities include:

• Participating in audit activities to optimise patient safety
• Making recommendations based on audit outcomes

Information and IT responsibilities include:

• Capturing and analysing important data
• Updating electronic patient medication records
• Maintaining full and complete records of all patient contacts

Collaborative Support involves:

• Working within a team providing peer support
• Providing training, supervision and peer support for team members

Other Duties include:

• Providing cover for other team members as appropriate
• Carrying out any other duties as determined and requested by the organisation

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Essential: Experience of prioritising work and meeting deadlines
• Understanding of office systems
• Able to communicate effectively and professionally
• Demonstrated high standard of written and verbal communication skills
• Previous experience of working in a primary care setting

Skills:

• Essential: High level of competence in Microsoft Office packages
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly organised and able to work on own initiative

Personal Qualities:

• Essential: Shares SDHC's values
• Works well within a team
• Approachable, adaptable, supportive, self-motivated

Other Requirements:

• Must be able to drive and have access to a vehicle for work
• Proven record of good timekeeping and attendance

Qualifications:

• Essential: GMC Registered, not subject to suspension
• Currently on performers list