Out of Hours Salaried General Practitioner

Job overview

Berkshire Healthcare is seeking dedicated general practitioners (GPs) to join our Urgent Care Out of Hours service (WestCall) which provides urgent medical advice and assessment to all patients living in the Berkshire West area when daytime primary care is closed. We are keen to recruit additional salaried GPs who are at any stage of their career and can provide face to face patient care. This may be colleagues who have recently completed their GP training or GPs that are further along in their career and wish to develop their portfolio career or are simply looking for a new challenge.

Operating weekdays between 6:30pm to 8am and 24 hours across weekends and bank holidays, our service provides advice and treatment for patients who have called 111 and require urgent primary care. The service is provided by a multi-disciplinary team that includes GPs, Nurse and Paramedic Practitioners, Pharmacists, administrative and operational colleagues. Together we provide clinical care from our two Primary Care Centres, over the telephone or during a home visit..

This role is a face-to-face clinical role based at our Primary Care Centre at the West Berkshire Community Hospital in Thatcham, Berkshire. The hours we currently have on offer are, alternate Saturdays 1800-2400hrs & alternate Sundays 1300-1900 and 1900-2400hrs.

Main duties of the job

• Provide timely clinical care at our Primary Care Centres based at the West Berkshire Community Hospital.

• Access to hospital discharge letters and patient test results which facilitates safe patient care and minimises clinical risk.

• To ensure that where appropriate, the patient is referred for further management with the relevant service, e.g. secondary care specialities, urgent community response and other community services.

• To contribute to the training and development of Clinical and non-clinical staff, e.g. GP registrars, Trainee Advanced Practitioners, Paramedics.

• Work within local prescribing guidelines (SCAN/Microguide) with the ability to prescribe electronically.

As part of our innovative team, we will provide you with all the diagnostic equipment required to undertake the role including access to the latest clinical software and point of care testing. We provide a driver and a vehicle for your home visits. Primary Care Centre health care assistants are at hand to take baseline observations on your patients as well as to assist you in conducting ECG and urine analysis on request. This allows clinicians more time to deal with the patients presenting problem.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• MRCGP or equivalent

• Inclusion on NHS England’s Medical Performers list

• Ability to manage common acute illness presentations in both adults and paediatric patients

• Maintain up to date appraisal and revalidation

• Experience of working in primary care/OOH/Urgent Care

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call:  Dr Sandeep Sandhu on 0797 414 5674 or email [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.