The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.
The post will work into the assessment and navigation service at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) supporting the Front Door Service 7 days per week and also into the Urgent Care Centers at Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside general Hospital. This will include weekend and evening work on a rotational basis.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date if a suitable number of applications have been received.
As a qualified General Practitioner (GP) your role is to provide acute primary care to patients who walk-in or are referred via NHS 111. This includes dealing with patients presenting with minor illness, more serious illness (needing an assessment and onward referral / transfer to secondary care) and minor injuries (training / support available).
You will also support the developing Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Clinical Practitioners (CPs) and GP Registrars in their assessment and management of primary care illness whilst on shift (part of an ongoing workforce development program).
There is also the opportunity to join the NSECH Front Door Service which provides Nurse Practitioner led streaming and rapid assessment of walk-in patients to NSECH (‘pre-ED’) and direction to the most appropriate service for their immediate health needs. Destination options include the Assessment and Navigation Service (ANS), Emergency Department, Same Day Emergency Care (Acute Medicine / Surgery / Gynaecology), off-site UTC or self-care. Shadowing sessions, training sessions and live assessment prior to commitment are provided as this role is not suited to everyone. Training and support are given.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The post holder is required to work within the limits of their competency in acute primary care ( and minor injury when trained) seeing patients of all ages. They will be an integral part of a team which also includes NPs, CPs, GPRs and Health Care Assistants (HCAs). Excellent communication skills with patients and colleagues are essential along with openness and a firm duty of candour.
Within the UTCs GPs work from an appointed ledger: patients are booked into 15-minute slots. GPs currently have 3 booked patients per hour and 1 x 15minute slot to support the wider UTC team as needed clinically whilst on shift. The postholder may need to be flexible in terms of location of work, depending on staffing and service demand.
Clinical documentation is on SystmOne.
Diagnosis is primarily based on history and examination (with baseline observations including random capillary glucose / ketones and ECGs). Plain X-ray imaging is available to those who are qualified to order and interpret them (training can be provided and on-call reporting radiographers / radiologists are available).
