Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide on call GP support to cover the charity’s hospice sites.
• To respond by phone with a maximum response time of one hour and triage the clinical situation providing advice and guidance to the nursing team.
• To respond in an appropriate timeframe for the clinical situation having provided appropriate advice and safety netting in the meantime and have clearly documented this in the relevant clinical record.
• Take clinical responsibility for decisions around the timeframe for attendance.
• Communicate accurately with the nurse looking after the patient the expected response time and ensure they are aware of when to make further contact.
• Where a response time faster than four hours is needed and it is not possible to provide this to give appropriate advice about contacting emergency services
• To consider the social and psychological circumstances of a patient and their family and the needs of the service when assessing the timeliness of response needed.
• To be available to always attend within a maximum of four hours when on call.
• To attend with a maximum response time of four hours where the nurse looking after the patient feels this is essential.
• Daily review of any person admitted for end-of-life care/symptom management.
• Review of any patient in need of medical review while admitted to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Support for discussions around intended emergency admissions to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Prescribing safely, effectively and in line with the charity’s prescribing policy for all in-patients.
• Liaising with secondary or tertiary care centres as needed for in-patients or in preparation for admission.
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns promptly and via the appropriate reporting routes as detailed in the safeguarding policy.
• Working collaboratively with the nursing team and wider MDT.
• Attendance at quarterly medical team meetings.
• Engagement with 1:1s, internal appraisals, GP appraisals, and the revalidation process.
• Maintaining an appropriate level or personal indemnity cover.
• Maintaining mandatory training and keeping up to date with mandatory reads as required by Havens Hospices.
• Appropriately reporting incidents or near misses and being engaged in the process of investigating these as needed.
• Responding in a timely manner to feedback or complaints
• To liaise with the lead bank doctor around the co-ordination of the rota to always ensure provision of GP cover for the charity and to escalate to the Medical Director any gaps or risks surrounding this.