Bank GP

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to work for our Urgent Care Out of Hours Service / GP out of hours.

We are seeking motivated and dedicated clinicians who have experience in urgent primary care, who are excellent team members, willing to work as part of a growing and multidisciplinary team.

We provide out of hours care for the population of Wirral which is a peninsula in the Northwest of England between Liverpool and Chester.

We are offering regular or ad hoc bank contracts at a competitive hourly rate of pay.

The emphasis of what we need is on weekend working at any time of day or night, and also mid week overnight shifts. There may be opportunity to work in the midweek evening as well but the primary need is weekends and overnight.

Main duties of the job

We use SystmOne as our electronic patient record. We have fully integrated access via NHS Connect, to the in hours GP record on EMIS (including free-text and coded data) and the local hospital records on Cerner (including ED d/c letters / Radiology, Pathology, Microbiology, Histology results).

Our patients come from various sources and clinical colleague referrals, giving you exposure to a wide range of clinical matters, and the ability to discuss with many different specialties. Currently we can consult:

• -          Patients care navigated for initial telephone consultation via NHS111 -          Local health care practitioners asking for remote advice, including community nurses, specialist palliative care nurses and community pharmacists) -          Abnormal blood results taken in hours, called through from the local labs -          Paramedic referred patients who can be stepped down to avoid unnecessary conveyance to hospital -          Care home referred patients -          Face to face patients transferred from the ED or Walk in Centres -          Home visits

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our sessions are flexible:

• No fixed patient appointments / no personal; allocation of patients. The expectation is that you would consult @ 3 patients per hour on average.

• -          They can vary in length -          We can accommodate short / last minute requests for extra hours -          You can work a regular shift, or ad hoc depending on your availability

Core benefits:

• -          Use of Systm1 texting to facilitate text communication (Systm1 video suite also available) -          Fully enabled hardware with Jabber voice calling and recording software -          Immediate access to a full support team of shift managers / shift administrators / call handlers / fellow clinicians -          Detailed and informative induction guide showing numerous processes and policies -          Regular education sessions through the year -          Pension and PAYE -          Funded induction and orientation to our service including a meet and greet and Q/A session with a service lead. -          Dedicated clinical governance including proactive and reactive audit, and review of consultations to support your continuing professional and personal development. Opportunity to work remotely – from home - if required by the service

For further information or an informal chat, please contact the Clinical Director, Dr Eddie Roche @ [email protected], or the service lead Ms Sarah Cowell @ [email protected]