• Job Description

  Req#: B0168-23-0192?language=en&page=1995&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Our next generation GPs roles are tailored just for you. We’re redefining what the role of a GP looks like, offering more autonomy, flexibility and different career paths. And you can be part of this journey.

  HUC is setting the standards and stretching the boundaries of what high quality primary care looks like. For you, that means greater flexibility around how you work, and the reassurance that you are part of an organisation that is founded on patient centred care.

  HUC can curate a role that’s tailored just for you. Your location can be flexible and you can choose whether to dedicate your time to one service area or a combination - and not just out of hours. Our service areas range from working in our UTCs, at our co-located General Practice, Clinical Assessment Service, in or out of hours. You can choose to work either from home, one of our primary care bases or one of our regional contact centres.

  What’s more, you’ll have access to even more great professional development opportunities. For example, how about dedicating 20% of your time to Quality Improvement Activities that enable you to explore Clinical Governance or Leadership interests? Consider that alongside the scope to broaden and diversify your clinical expertise by working in more than one of our service areas.

  Main duties of the job

  You can select the sessions that suit you – committing to a minimum of 4 sessions per week.

  You’ll also be able to access a fantastic range of benefits (pro-rata for part time). These include:

  • Performance Related Bonus Scheme
  • Evening, weekend and overnight enhancements
  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays
  • 5 days study leave per year
  • NHS Pension Scheme
  • Indemnity reimbursement
  • GMC reimbursement (exclusions apply)
  • Company sick pay
  • Wide-ranging continuous professional development programme including support with appraisal/revalidation
  • Supportive environment with senior clinical on-call support available all times.
  • Career development opportunities including the Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow Scheme, clinical supervision and involvement with educational programmes audit, peer reviews and much more
  • NHS and Perkbox employee lifestyle perks and discounts
  • Employee Assistance Programme

  For further information, please see the Job Description attached. If you would like an informal conversation to find out more, please contact luisa.gaiteri@huc.nhs.uk

  About us

  HUC is an incredibly dynamic organisation and if you choose to work here, you can be certain of new opportunities and challenges. No two days will be the same.

  We want to attract people who relish the opportunity to be part of an organisation that is making health provision smarter, faster and more responsive to patients’ needs. People who want their contribution to count.

  Fantastic patient care is front and centre of what we do, and how we do it. This means that those who choose to be part of our team can be confident that the values that motivate them will be shared and respected.

  Whatever your experience or background, HUC is a place where you will have the opportunity to make a positive difference to people’s lives. But it’s also a dynamic organisation that will encourage you to embrace new ways of working if it means even better outcomes for patients.

  Date posted

  03 October 2023

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience Competitive + enhancements + excellent benefits

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  B0168-23-0192

  Job locations

  Luton Town Centre Surgery & Urgent Treatment Centre

  14-16 Chapel Street

  Luton

  LU1 2SE

  
  

  Herts Urgent Care

  Ascots Lane

  Welwyn Garden City

  Hertfordshire

  AL7 4HL

  
  

  Enhanced Services Centre

  3 Kimbolton Road

  Bedford

  MK40 2NT

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  A salaried GP working in an individually tailored role, personalised to your professional interests and preferences and to hours and times that suit you. Working as part of the HUC clinical team you can be involved in delivering care across numerous different services, both in and out of hours, at a variety of sites or remotely. Notably this role also offers the opportunity to use 7.5hours FTE in Quality Improvement Activities, allowing you to explore Clinical Governance or Leadership interests and contribute and influence patient care at an organisational level whilst supported by the HUC leadership team.

  Principle Responsibilities will Include:

  · Represent HUC and the NHS in a manner consistent with the General Medical Council’s “Good Medical Practice” to ensure that there is consistency, and that best practice is shared across all HUC’s clinical services.

  · Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to individual patients presenting problems

  · Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

  · Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

  · Prescribing in accordance with the HUC prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

  · Manage the case list effectively to reduce demand on face-to-face services including ambulance dispositions, A&Es and UCCs/MIUs and OOHs

  · Ensure that all cases are managed and/or seen in good time but provide support to patients or reallocate if there is delay

  · Work closely with all other operational managers on duty to provide a seamless service and ensure that clinical and quality outcomes are met

  · Ensure best practice is followed for safeguarding and clinical governance

  · In summary the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP in General Practice and Urgent Care Settings

  · Take part in monthly productivity review if required

  · Expectations

  · 4-6 telephone triage calls per hour

  · Base – 4 per hour

  · Home Visits – 1 per hour

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  A salaried GP working in an individually tailored role, personalised to your professional interests and preferences and to hours and times that suit you. Working as part of the HUC clinical team you can be involved in delivering care across numerous different services, both in and out of hours, at a variety of sites or remotely. Notably this role also offers the opportunity to use 7.5hours FTE in Quality Improvement Activities, allowing you to explore Clinical Governance or Leadership interests and contribute and influence patient care at an organisational level whilst supported by the HUC leadership team.

  Principle Responsibilities will Include:

  · Represent HUC and the NHS in a manner consistent with the General Medical Council’s “Good Medical Practice” to ensure that there is consistency, and that best practice is shared across all HUC’s clinical services.

  · Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to individual patients presenting problems

  · Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

  · Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

  · Prescribing in accordance with the HUC prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

  · Manage the case list effectively to reduce demand on face-to-face services including ambulance dispositions, A&Es and UCCs/MIUs and OOHs

  · Ensure that all cases are managed and/or seen in good time but provide support to patients or reallocate if there is delay

  · Work closely with all other operational managers on duty to provide a seamless service and ensure that clinical and quality outcomes are met

  · Ensure best practice is followed for safeguarding and clinical governance

  · In summary the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP in General Practice and Urgent Care Settings

  · Take part in monthly productivity review if required

  · Expectations

  · 4-6 telephone triage calls per hour

  · Base – 4 per hour

  · Home Visits – 1 per hour

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Be a practising GP
  • Demonstrate an established and respected career

  Desirable

  • Knowledge and/or experience of the 111 service / telephone triage / OOHs as appropriate
  • Clinical Governance

  Skills and abilities

  Essential

  • Good clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and management
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills written, verbal (Particularly listening skills)
  • Clear, fluent and articulate in verbal and written presentation to patients, the public, clinical colleagues and managers
  • Managing a rapidly changing workload
  • Skilled at dealing with difficult situations
  • Acting with integrity behaving in an open and ethical manner
  • A desire to keep the focus on patients needs and improving outcomes
  • Able to adapt to flexible working patterns and demands
  • Self audit and reflection
  • Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
  • Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
  • Computer literate (Microsoft office) and can work with or rapidly adopt skills in New Clinical IT systems

  Desirable

  • Willingness to develop and support other clinicians
  • Good at influencing others to change their behaviour through negotiation and dispute resolution
  • Able to provide coaching, mentoring and clinical supervision
  • Able to influence professional colleagues particularly in areas relating to conduct, attitude, behaviour and standards
  • Clear understanding of professional responsibility and accountability.
  • Hold a current UK driving license
  • Willingness to travel to other sites within the geographical area and other external sites as appropriate

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
  • Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
  • General practice (Vocational Training Scheme) with MRCGP examination or equivalent
  • On the relevant medical performers list (with no conditions preventing working or restrictions on practice)
  • Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check
  • Full professional indemnity

  Desirable

  • Membership of relevant Specialist Societies or Associations

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Be a practising GP
  • Demonstrate an established and respected career

  Desirable

  • Knowledge and/or experience of the 111 service / telephone triage / OOHs as appropriate
  • Clinical Governance

  Skills and abilities

  Essential

  • Good clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and management
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills written, verbal (Particularly listening skills)
  • Clear, fluent and articulate in verbal and written presentation to patients, the public, clinical colleagues and managers
  • Managing a rapidly changing workload
  • Skilled at dealing with difficult situations
  • Acting with integrity behaving in an open and ethical manner
  • A desire to keep the focus on patients needs and improving outcomes
  • Able to adapt to flexible working patterns and demands
  • Self audit and reflection
  • Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
  • Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
  • Computer literate (Microsoft office) and can work with or rapidly adopt skills in New Clinical IT systems

  Desirable

  • Willingness to develop and support other clinicians
  • Good at influencing others to change their behaviour through negotiation and dispute resolution
  • Able to provide coaching, mentoring and clinical supervision
  • Able to influence professional colleagues particularly in areas relating to conduct, attitude, behaviour and standards
  • Clear understanding of professional responsibility and accountability.
  • Hold a current UK driving license
  • Willingness to travel to other sites within the geographical area and other external sites as appropriate

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
  • Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
  • General practice (Vocational Training Scheme) with MRCGP examination or equivalent
  • On the relevant medical performers list (with no conditions preventing working or restrictions on practice)
  • Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check
  • Full professional indemnity

  Desirable

  • Membership of relevant Specialist Societies or Associations

  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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  HUC

  Address

  Luton Town Centre Surgery & Urgent Treatment Centre

  14-16 Chapel Street

  Luton

  LU1 2SE

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://hucweb.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  HUC

  Address

  Luton Town Centre Surgery & Urgent Treatment Centre

  14-16 Chapel Street

  Luton

  LU1 2SE

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://hucweb.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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