Community Urgent Care GP - Oxfordshire

Job overview

We are recruiting for Community Urgent Care GP roles across our SDEC sites at Witney and Abingdon Community Hospitals.

This is a brilliant opportunity for interested GPs to be part of a new team and way of working, that is both innovative and integrated. As a Community Urgent Care (CUC) GP, working for the people of Oxfordshire, your role will be varied, interesting, and ultimately rewarding. Our Primary, Community and Dental Care Directorate comprises of several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients, close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care.

Your priority will be to help support and deliver our CUC services, which operate 7 days a week, 8am till 8pm, working at one or more of our community same day emergency care units (cSDEC), taking a hands-on role to provide acutely unwell patients with further assessment and treatment as an alternative to secondary care. There are also opportunities to learn, teach and engage in personal development activities.

This is a substantive role and full time/part-time hours are available - flexible hours can be considered that fit with the service model. Shifts are between 9 and 12 hours (including unpaid breaks) arranged Monday-Friday.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high quality clinical care and assessments
• In accordance with the agreed job plan, undertake a variety of duties which may include community Same Day Emergency Care (cSDEC) consultations, same day home visits and telephone consultations
• Deliver personalised, evidence informed medical assessments and care plans to all patients you interface with in the pathway, in person or remotely
• Provide advice and timely medical reviews and interventions as part of the inter-disciplinary model of care
• Support and actively manage admission avoidance to acute hospitals and keeping patients closer or in their own home
• Adhere to local prescribing guidelines
• Work in close partnership and liaison with Primary Care, acute and specialist services, urgent and ambulatory care, Hospital at Home, Single Point of Access (SPA), Community Services (such as Integrated Locality Teams, Community Therapy Service), Social Services, Mental Health Services and Voluntary Services both clinically and in relation to service development
• Co-ordinate the clinical care and appropriate support in collaboration with clinical and management colleagues to ensure the quality of outcomes for patients and carers
• Requirement to work at another of our base sites (Henley, Witney and Abingdon) in exceptional circumstances e.g. acute sickness

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Community Urgent Care (CUC) GP working for the people of Oxfordshire, your role will be varied, interesting, and ultimately rewarding. Our Primary, Community and Dental Care Directorate comprises of several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients, close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care.

Please see the attached job description for further information. We would strongly advise and welcome applicants to approach beforehand to discuss the role.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.