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Job overview

SevernSide has a diverse range of roles available delivering urgent primary care across the 24-hour period. We are recruiting GPs into the following roles on an employed or self-employed basis.

Out of Hours GP work. We have 5 treatment centres across Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos. and a call centre based at Osprey Court in South Bristol. We also offer visiting shifts in our cars, supported by a driver. There is the option of working remotely from home. Out of hours work is available from 18.30 -08.00 weekdays, 24 hours a day during weekend and bank holidays.

System CAS. This team is based at Osprey Court and is telephone based. Working together in a multi-professional, multi-speciality team to reduce ED admissions and 999 calls. This team has proved to be highly effective, reducing approximately 80% of 999 callouts and ED admissions and supports patients to be safely managed in the community in the majority of cases.

Main duties of the job

Assess and manage the full breadth of clinical presentations and age groups which present in the urgent primary care setting, including physical and mental health needs.

Undertake clinical work by telephone +/- video, consulting with patients and/ or their representatives and healthcare professionals in the community to appropriately assess the current concerns, establish an appropriate differential diagnosis and management plan.

Seek to support community management wherever possible, but be able to recognise serious illness and emergency situations requiring admission and/ or an ambulance response

Be able to prescribe appropriately for the urgent primary care context, including initiating and changing end of life medications

Document the key findings from their assessment, such that the notes provide appropriate detail to log the assessment at the time, and support other clinicians who may be involved later in the patient’s journey

Seek clinical advice from the senior GP on shift (the Clinical Coordinator) when required to support clinical decision making and access to appropriate services

Be encouraged to contribute to on call clinician rotas at times of peak demand.

Be proactive about identifying and reporting concerns and incidents, to support continued learning and improvement in the service provided to patients

Working for our organisation

BrisDoc is a proud provider of NHS Healthcare who have been passionately delivering our mission of ‘patient care, by people who care’ for over 20 years.
 
We run an exciting range of Primary Care Services including the SevernSide Urgent Care Service, GP Practices, and the Homeless Health Service. This enable BrisDoc to offer excellent healthcare 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to over 1 million patients across Bristol, North Somerset & South Glos.
 
We are a ‘Social Enterprise’ and an ‘Employee-Owned Business’ - this means the decisions we make, are for the good of our patients, workforce, and wider community. This involves prioritising the health of our patients, protecting our environment, focusing on equality, diversity, and inclusion, looking after the health & wellbeing of our team, and improving the social and economic status of our population.
 
We are proud to be an organisation that ‘gives back’. Our BrisDoc ‘Community Fund’ is a staff-led team which works closely with health-based charitable causes, both local and international, to invest time and money to improve lives in disadvantaged communities.
 
By joining BrisDoc, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary organisation that prides itself on being a fantastic place to work; somewhere that you will feel valued, supported, developed and part of a family. We strive to make sure every member of the team feels proud of the work they do and the services that we offer.
 
We look forward to welcoming you to the team.