General Practitioner

**About The Role**
**General Practitioner -WorcestershireOOH**
Perhaps you want to broaden your clinical experience as part of a portfolio career. Perhaps you need the freedom of more flexible hours. Perhaps you just relish a new challenge. When you join the multidisciplinary team in our **WorcestershireOut Of Hours **service, you’re back in control.
As the largest independent provider of NHS services, **Practice Plus Group** is delivering a newmodel of **Integrated Urgent Care** that reduces pressures on services and staff. By bringing together urgent care, clinical assessment and primary care services and, NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment and other urgent care services, we enable patientsto access the right care, when they need it. It’s better for everyone.
This is the perfect chance to use and develop all your skills and expertise as a **General Practitioner**, providing diagnosis, treatment, advice and referrals to other healthcare resources, **via primary care centres and home visits**. You will also use our **electronic prescribing system** to effectivelymanage the patient.
Based in our various Worcestershire Out Of Hours (OOH) services, you’ll be working autonomously within your sphere of competency as a **lead clinician**in a **multi-skilled team** that includes advanced nurse practitioners, registered nurses, UCPs, mental health and dental nurses, prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy advisors.
We are proud of our strong, stable infrastructure that ensures clinical safety and provides **senior-level clinical support throughout evenings, nights and weekends**. You’ll be able to keep your skills up to date with a CPD programme - and can expect education and training tailored to your needs and future plans. We work closely withthe NHS to provide opportunities to **learn, innovate and contribute new ideas**. In addition to our bespoke Learning Management System, we offer discounted national update/clinical topic refreshers, support to become a supervisor/GP registrartrainer, plus a host of **regional and national career development** opportunities.
We can offer this role as either **permanent, bank or self-employed**.
**What you will need**:

- **GMC registration** certificate and inclusion on the **GP Performers List** with a valid CCT.
- **Experience** to confidently **manage acute and chronic presentations** for both **adult andpaediatric**patients, with a proven ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care.
- Excellent **listening and communication** skills, with experience of **urgent care** assessment and good IT/keyboard skills.

**What you will get**:

- Competitive pay and indemnity reimbursement
- A flexible choice of daytime, evening or overnight shifts (typically four to five hours in length)
- 25 days’ annual leave (salaried full time equivalent), increasing with service up to 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Practice Plus Group benefits including online shopping discounts and vouchers, pension, free eye tests, cycle to workschemes and more.

**How We Can Support You**:

- Regional and National Leadership development opportunities
- Senior clinical support, 24 hours a day
- Education and training tailored to your needs and interests
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Discounted rates for national GP update/clinical topic refreshers.
- Support to become a Supervisor/GP registrar trainer
- Dedicated feedback to support appraisals

To be considered for this role, you need to:

- Be on the **GMC**Register
- Be on the GP Performers List with a valid **CCT**:

- **Experience**& confidence in managing **acute**and **chronic**presentations for both adult and **paediatric** patients.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care.

**About The Company**
As an organisation Practice Plus Group is at the cutting edge of service development underpinned by a commitment to developing strong and effective leaders and embedding quality improvement methodologies. There is a strong track record of career progressionwithin the organisation.
Practice Plus Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
If you'd like to learn more, arrange an informal visit to the service or have any questions please contact **Rebecca Morris