Job Introduction
We looking to appoint a salaried GP in our lovely GP lead service at the Reading Urgent Care Centre (UCC). Reading UCC is situated in the centre of Reading 30 mins from Paddington station and other train services to West London.
We are a friendly and well supported - dynamic, forward-thinking practice that delivers excellent health care to our patients. You will be joining a large team where you will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of a dedicated admin support team, specialised nurse’s as well as highly skilled healthcare assistants. Providing care to patients and their families to a high standard, sharing best practice and always looking to actively improve the way we work and deliver health care.
As a General Practitioner, you will need to be approachable who is a source of knowledge for your colleagues. As well as making conscientious decisions in relation to challenges presented to you or from other health care colleagues – over 6 to 10 sessions per week.
About Reading UCC:
We are here to help you get quick and easy access to healthcare if you have an urgent medical need.
We can provide treatment for minor illnesses. Please note that we can not treat injuries.
Providing appointments for self-presenting patients and those referred from GPs and the Royal Berkshire Hospital’s accident and emergency department.
We are located at:
1st Floor
103-105 Broad Street Mall
Reading RG1 7QA
The centre is open seven days a week from 8am-8pm, including bank holidays.
Main Responsibility
As our GP, you will need to be dynamic, proactive and be an approachable member of our primary care team, whose skills will ensure the safe and quality driven services that is being provided in an efficient and systematic manner over 10 sessions of 8 hours per week.
We have dedicated experienced, collaborative and supportive nurses, HCA’s, management, admin and reception teams working to deliver a warm and friendly service. You will be working within a team of GPs and nurses; where you will provide senior clinical leadership ensuring that clinical services comply with and work within CQC regulations and requirements.
You will provide:
- Consultations and perform health screens with our patients within our private clinic, providing the highest level of patient care.
- Providing local leadership and supporting colleagues.
- Open complaints and incident management.
- Practice action log
- Stakeholder management with peers
- Practice risk register
- Overlook peer review and supervision
- Auditing
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields such as diabetes, paediatrics, dermatology and mental health. Where you’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. That get together on regular basis, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design.
You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads and will be a part of quality improvements, research & development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
Within the role we also have opportunities for experienced GP trainers looking to lead a programme of training and mentorship across primary care, including medical and nursing students, allied health professionals, doctors returning to NHS practice (Induction & Refresher Scheme) and GP Registrars. Additional financial reimbursement and up to 50% WTE protected time to undertake this role will be considered.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a GMC registered with a license to practice and have a strong clinical background working in Primary Care.
On the performers list and have full GMC registration and MRCGP, with the ability to demonstrate an understanding of how working in Primary Care setting differs from hospital and can diagnose and assess the healthcare needs of patients.
Confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel.
Essential experience:
- Full GMC Registration, MBChB or equivalent
- UK permit or right to work in the UK
- MRCGP
- Commitment to professional development
- Knowledge of the NHS
- Understands the importance of evidence
- based practice and clinical effectiveness
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues and health and social policy
- Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, both computerized and manual
- Experience of Microsoft Office applications
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A ‘solutions focused’ approach
- Ability to listen and empathize
- Potential to cope with stressful situations
- Ability to undertake responsibility
- Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Understanding of the role of teamwork in providing quality care
- Trustworthy
- Flexible and a good timekeeper
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Ability to manage and facilitate change
Package Description
As a GP, you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £95,000.00 to £110,000.00 based on experience
- 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
- 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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