GP Severnside

4 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom BrisDoc Healthcare Services Full time

Job summary

SevernSide has a diverse range of roles available delivering urgent primary care across the 24-hour period. We are recruiting GPs into the following roles on an employed or self-employed basis.

Out of Hours GP work . We have 5 treatment centres across Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos. and a call centre based at Osprey Court in South Bristol. We also offer visiting shifts in our cars, supported by a driver. There is the option of working remotely from home. Out of hours work is available from weekdays, 24 hours a day during weekend and bank holidays.

System CAS . This team is based at Osprey Court and is telephone based. Working together in a multi-professional, multi-speciality team to reduce ED admissions and 999 calls. This team has proved to be highly effective, reducing approximately 80% of 999 callouts and ED admissions and supports patients to be safely managed in the community in the majority of cases.

Main duties of the job

Assess and manage the full breadth of clinical presentations and age groups which present in the urgent primary care setting, including physical and mental health needs.

Undertake clinical work by telephone +/- video, consulting with patients and/ or their representatives and healthcare professionals in the community to appropriately assess the current concerns, establish an appropriate differential diagnosis and management plan.

Seek to support community management wherever possible, but be able to recognise serious illness and emergency situations requiring admission and/ or an ambulance response

Be able to prescribe appropriately for the urgent primary care context, including initiating and changing end of life medications

Document the key findings from their assessment, such that the notes provide appropriate detail to log the assessment at the time, and support other clinicians who may be involved later in the patient's journey

Seek clinical advice from the senior GP on shift (the Clinical Coordinator) when required to support clinical decision making and access to appropriate services

Be encouraged to contribute to on call clinician rotas at times of peak demand.

Be proactive about identifying and reporting concerns and incidents, to support continued learning and improvement in the service provided to patients

About us

BrisDoc is a proud provider of NHS Healthcare who have been passionately delivering our mission of 'patient care, by people who care' for over 20 run an exciting range of Primary Care Services including the SevernSide Urgent Care Service, GP Practices, and the Homeless Health Service. This enable BrisDoc to offer excellent healthcare 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to over 1 million patients across Bristol, North Somerset & South are a 'Social Enterprise' and an 'Employee-Owned Business' - this means the decisions we make, are for the good of our patients, workforce, and wider community. This involves prioritising the health of our patients, protecting our environment, focusing on equality, diversity, and inclusion, looking after the health & wellbeing of our team, and improving the social and economic status of our are proud to be an organisation that 'gives back'. Our BrisDoc 'Community Fund' is a staff-led team which works closely with health-based charitable causes, both local and international, to invest time and money to improve lives in disadvantaged joining BrisDoc, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary organisation that prides itself on being a fantastic place to work; somewhere that you will feel valued, supported, developed and part of a family. We strive to make sure every member of the team feels proud of the work they do and the services that we look forward to welcoming you to the team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assess and manage the full breadth of clinical presentations and age groups which present in the urgent primary care setting, including physical and mental health telephone referrals from Health Care professionals within the BNSSG area for appropriate adult medical admissions whilst being sensitive to the capacity issues of the hosting acute trust.Demonstrate excellent communication skills with referring HCPs, in order to build positive relationships so that alternative management ideas can be discussed without familiarity with the other urgent care services available in the BNSSG system, and how to access these for patientsUndertake clinical work by telephone +/- video, consulting with patients and/ or their representatives and healthcare professionals in the community to appropriately assess the current concerns, establishan appropriate differential diagnosis and management to support community management wherever possible, but be able to recognise serious illness and emergency situations requiring admission and/ or an ambulance responseBe able to prescribe appropriately for the urgent primary care context, including initiating and changing end of life medicationsDocument the key findings from their assessment, such that the notes provide appropriate detail to log the assessment at the time, and support other clinicians who may be involved later in the patientsjourneySeek clinical advice from the senior GP on shift (the Clinical Coordinator) when required to support clinical decision making and access to appropriate servicesBuddy with new clinicians working their first shift in the Severnside service, as required, to support them to become familiar with the systems and processes following inductionBe encouraged to contribute to on call clinician rotas at times of peak all IT systems required for safe clinical work in IUC, including the clinical systems (Adastra, PACS and EMIS), resources available to support clinical decision making (the Clinical Toolkit, BrisDoc weblinks, Remedy)

Be proactive about identifying and reporting concerns and incidents, to support continued learning and improvement in the service provided to patient

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Full registration GMC GP register Inclusion on NHS England's Performer's list MRCGP or Certificate from the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice

Desirable

Higher post graduate membership/ qualification , MRCP/ MSc

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Experience and interest in working across urgent primary care settings Actively working in General Practice or some form of community medicine or IUC service Effective multidisciplinary team working as part of current or recent primary care experience, either in practice or IUC, or both

Desirable

Experience of teaching Medical Students Experience of GP Training/ Clinical supervision Familiarity with the BNSSG healthcare system Acute/ general medical experience Experience of referral management/ Primary care/ hospital interface decisions

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

Essential

Flexible approach to working pattern and location according to service need Commitment to BrisDoc's values and social enterprise status Positive attitude towards innovations and change.

Desirable

Familiarity with Adastra EMIS computer systems

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