Vacancies

GP with Extended Role (GPwER) - Frailty

Main Responsibility

As a GPwER or Specialist Doctor, you will:

• Provide medical care to patients in inpatient community units at St Martin’s Hospital, Bath, and Paulton Hospital, as well as patients' homes across BaNES.
• Work within multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes and ensure safe, effective care with optimized lengths of stay.
• Collaborate closely with the Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH) Hospital at Home team to provide acute multidisciplinary care in the home setting, focusing on admission avoidance and supporting early discharge from the acute hospital setting.
• Contribute to the strategic development of clinical practices within our services and strive for excellence in care delivery.
• Support and lead clinical teams in providing specialist interventions, ensuring continuity of care across various health and social care interfaces.
• Act as a professional role model and provide leadership and consultancy for the coordination of urgent healthcare needs, particularly for those traditionally requiring hospitalization.
• Deliver evidence-based clinical practice, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and timely response to changing clinical needs.
• Participate in audit and research activities to drive continuous improvement and contribute to the development of new knowledge and practices.
• Maintain active registration as a medical prescriber, managing medication needs for patients in Hospital at Home and preparing for discharge.

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a GPwSi or a Specialist Doctor who is:

• Registered with the GMC.
• Hold a CCT as a General Practitioner and relevant qualifications and experience for older/frail adult care.
• There will be a requirement to travel across the region and at times to go to meetings and training in London or elsewhere in the UK - Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle will be required.
• Passionate about providing high-quality care to the local community.
• Experienced in managing frail elderly patients and those with advanced clinical needs.
• Skilled in working within a multidisciplinary team across primary, secondary, acute, and social care settings.
• Able to lead and develop innovative healthcare practices and contribute to continuous service improvement.
• Committed to professional development and supporting a positive learning environment for colleagues and students.

Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.

Package Description

As a GP with Extended Role you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset.

You will feel valued as a GPWER within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Salary of £95,275 for 24 hours a week (£146,882.28 FTE)
• NHS Pension!
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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