Job overview

Hello! We are Royal Primary Care Derbyshire. We are a team with a vision; to improve the health and well-being of our patients, their families and the wider community. 

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic GP to join our multi-disciplinary team of clinicians.  We use SystmOne and actively look to maximise digital tools to improve the way in which we work.  We are keyed into addressing health inequalities and work with a range of system partners.  We offer a range of flexible working options.  You will be working within a sector focused on a natural community to provide continuity of care and promote effective multi disciplinary team working.  Our business support services team reduces the clinical administrative burden.  We actively encourage personal development including the opportunity to develop skills across disease management areas which are remunerated in addition to your base salary.  We are a training practice with a large and active research department.

1 x General Practitioner/GP Trainer - 30 hours per week

Main duties of the job

Please see Job Description for further details

Key Responsibilities 

This post requires the post holder to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities of a GP working in primary care.  At the higher salary scales the post holder will be expected to display the leadership, mentoring and management skills of a senior experienced GP.

All GPs working at Royal Primary Care are substantive employees.  This job description acts as a guideline to the responsibilities of the post holder and will be reviewed and amended to meet changing professional and service needs.

• Effectively and safely manage a mixed clinic of patients, in a medically appropriate way (clinics are constructed such that 16 patients are seen in the morning and 16 in the afternoon with time protected for result filing and general admin activity).
• Participate in the on-call/duty clinician rota which involves a mix of telephone triage, acute appointments and managing the home visit demand including allocation of home visits in an appropriate manner across the available clinical team. The duty clinician is also the first point of contact for clinical queries from the ANPs, SMHPs and Pharmacists. To provide home visits for patients as part of their clinical day along with their clinical colleagues.

Working for our organisation

• Royal Primary Care Derbyshire comprises 4 lists operating across 9 sites in North Derbyshire. We are CQC Good, a training practice and have an NIHR Level4 accredited research unit.
• We operate in 4 sectors and use TPP SystmOne in a shared admin configuration to allow maximum operational flexibility.
• We work as 4 Sectors – East, West, South and Brooklyn which you can picture as 4 practices networked together – like a GP led PCN before PCNs were a thing!
• We enjoy working as a mixed clinical team with GPs, ANPs, Specialist Mental Health Practitioners and Pharmacists providing care to our patients in addition to an evolving group of ARRS staff.
• We are familiar with providing visa sponsorship

We offer staff a range of attractive benefits:

• • Health and Wellbeing Support: A wide range of support including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, financial support and other support provided by Joined Up Care Derbyshire. Read more about our Health and Wellbeing Offer.
  • Wellbeing Hub: An onsite facility accessible to all CRH, DSFS and RPC – including a fully equipped gym, showers, classes, and onsite counselling.
  • Learning and development: A range of courses to help you grow in your career
  • Discounts: Including Health Service Discounts and Blue Light Card.
  • NHS Fleet Solutions: A cost-effective car leasing scheme including easy access to electric vehicles

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter: @CRHCareers @WellbeingCRH @royalhospital