Specialty Doctor UTC

Job overview

We are aligning our Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) team at Teddington Memorial Hospital and Kingston Hospital to ensure we continue to deliver a high standard of care to our local community.  We are recruiting enthusiastic and dynamic SAS doctors to join our supportive and friendly team during this exciting time. The post holder will be located at the Kingston Hospital UTC.

The UTC is co-located with the busy Emergency Department which sees 120,000 patients a year across Type 1 and Type 3 activity including Paediatrics.  The UTC manages a broad range of presentations across both minor illness and injury and operates 0800 – 0000 seven days week.  The workforce is a collaborative team across disciplines including;GP’s, junior doctors in training, Bank GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP), Urgent care Practitioners (UCP) staff nurses and Health Care Assistant (HAC). As a teaching environment, supporting the educational and clinical development of junior trainees and non-medical teams (including Nurse Practitioners, ACPs, to support their development within extended roles.

Main duties of the job

The SAS will support the UTC to deliver care of the highest clinical standards, will work with the Service manager, lead GP and clinical team to ensure effective overall performance of the UTC. To ensure effective coordination and liaison with community, primary, secondary care, LAS and voluntary sector to provide a seamless service to the patients and their carers’ and prevent hospital admission where urgent care is required. Provide specialist advice relating to minor illness and/or injury to UTC team, local healthcare teams, patients, relatives and carers.At all times the post holder will act in a manner consistent with the GMC’s code of conduct.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide triage where required. To complete consultations with assessment, treatment and management of patients of all ages presenting with urgent and primary care problems at the UTC.

• To record full clinical notes using the UTC IT systems. Complete coding requirements on the clinical record in line with the Trust requirements.
• Complete all admin work relating to consultations.
• Work as part of the wider clinical team- supporting Nurse Practitioners, HCAs, and GP colleagues. To manage referrals of UTC patients on to acute specialties, A&E or community services where required.
• To support the redirection of patients to their registered GP where appropriate.
• Give education to patients on healthy living and disease prevention, give education to patients on appropriate use of NHS services.
• Prescribe medicines in accordance with UTC formulary and dispense medicines from stock where available,  complete discharge letters for all patients seen in the UTC. Use all internal and external referral pathways for patients in the UTC.
• Adopt a reflective approach to clinical practice, to report all incidents and work with the team to investigate incidents. Prepare response for any complaints concerning their work.
• Follow the Trusts Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults policies.
• To restrict the use of diagnostics according to the specification of the UTCs.
• To maintain full registration with the GMC.