GP with Extended Role

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Job overview

GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Respiratory Medicine

(Billericay)

Job Details:

Salary

£68,975 - £104, annum (Pro-rata)

Contract

Fixed-Term contract – 12 months

Hours

Part-time: 2 Sessions (8 hours) per week

On call

None

Location

Mayflower Community Hospital, Blunts Wall Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9SA

Qualifications needed:

·Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

·MBBS or equivalent

·MRCGP

·On the GP Performers List

We are currently recruiting to a GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Respiratory Medicine position in the Thurrock/Basildon/Brentwood Integrated Care Directorate with an Extended Role in the Community Integrated Adult Respiratory Team, based at Mayflower Community Hospital, Blunts Wall Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9SA.

This is a new post and is a fixed-term contract for 12 months and is part time – 2 sessions (8 hours) per week. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

This role has been developed in collaboration with Mid and South Essex Training Hub and the Training Hub will make available to the successful candidate up to £2500 for a relevant diploma and offer ongoing links and support to the successful GPwER.

You will join a nurse lead, multidisciplinary team, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Main duties of the job

GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Respiratory Medicine:

This post is for a GP in the Thurrock/Basildon/Brentwood Integrated Care Directorate with an Extended Role in the Community Integrated Adult Respiratory Team, based at Mayflower Community Hospital, Blunts Wall Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9SA.

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Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the  best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. 

Why Essex?

Essex is a great county, where you can enjoy beautiful countryside villages, historical towns, stunning waterfronts, and quiet coastlines, while easily commuting into London.

NELFT Benefits:

·Relocation expenses

·Career Development and training

·Just & Compassionate Culture

·Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

·Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

·Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

·Employee Assistance Programme

·Health & Wellness initiatives

·11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

·Retail Discounts

·Flexible working and agile working

·Cycle to work scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in Redbridge, by accessing this video link: Working for NELFT in our Essex Medical Directorate

You will be expected to:

·Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing respiratory care to adult people across Thurrock, Basildon, and Brentwood.

·Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team

·Work directly with adult people, and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers and acute hospitals

·Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative

·Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.

To be successful in your application, you will need:

·To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,

·To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about respiratory health,

·Essential understanding of current developments in community adult respiratory health care,

·To be a team player

Rationale for post:
This is a new post, created from funding received from commissioners, to support the community respiratory service.
This is a new, fixed-term for 12 months, part-time post - 2 sessions (8 hours) a week with 1 hour protected time for supervision and personal development. This post might be extended following the initial 12 months period.
GPs with extended roles are very well established in Mid and South Essex (MSE), which offers a package of benefits alongside the opportunity to take up a role outside primary care.
Portfolio roles and GP with extended roles (GPwER) positions support mid and later career GPs to work within primary care whilst enjoying the variety that a portfolio interest offers, supporting a balanced career and wellbeing.
The GP role in the Community Integrated Respiratory Team aims to:
• Support GPs to have increased opportunities within MSE to further their career through attractive portfolio placements
• Recruit and retain GPs in MSE
• Increase collaborative cross-system working and understanding through developing
GPs with a wider understanding of other parts of the system and allowing GPs to share their knowledge and expertise whilst working in the Community Respiratory Team setting.
• Support system partners with recruitment of appropriately qualified GPs for respiratory medicine training opportunities
• Offer a variety of opportunities to inspire practicing GPs to increase job satisfaction, diversify their careers, and remain in the workforce longer term.

This is the first time our Integrated Respiratory team will have a dedicated GP with a specialist interest in respiratory medicine, who can contribute to the development and shaping of the service.

This is a portfolio development role designed for either a GP already experienced in respiratory medicine to become part of the service and grow in the role, or to support a GP to develop an area of expertise in respiratory medicine, whilst remaining part of the GP workforce.

All applicants should hold a substantive (partner or salaried) GP role of at least 2 sessions a week within the MSE footprint and would be required to continue within their substantive role for the 12 months duration of the post.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

Full registration with GMC

Desirable criteria

Substantive GP post holder of at least 2 sessions a week commitment in Mid and South Essex

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Standard of health that enables demands of job to be met

Desirable criteria

Works in accordance with GMC Good Medical Practice guidance

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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