GP ARRS

Job description

Job responsibilities

About Us

Mereside Medical is a flourishing group of three East Cambridgeshire practices in Ely, Haddenham and Soham. As a group, weve grown rapidly and now employ more than 160 people across the three practices. We are people-centred in our approach to work and believe that every contact that a patient has with our staff is as valuable as the next in the patient journey. We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of well-being in our community. Our approach is innovative and forward-looking, and we embrace technology to help us work together more efficiently and collaboratively.

Our goal is to deliver on the ambitions laid out in the GP forward view in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and satisfying for our staff. We are proud to have been an early adopter of the Covid Vaccination Programme and have, together with our Ely Primary Care Network partners, delivered over 150,000 vaccinations to our local communities. In addition to our core general practice work we run a large clinical research trials unit and we work closely with the ICB to develop innovative ways to improve local service provision. We are the lead practice for one of the two local PCNs and are represented in both.

Our approach is innovative and forward-looking, and dedicated to excellent clinical outcomes.

We want you to be able to do the best work of your career, confident in your care and proud of the outcomes you achieve for your patients. We work hard to ensure that our GPs are motivated and engaged in contributing to a supportive culture of mutual learning. Mereside practices are well-regarded for GP, student and nurse training. We enjoy weekly clinical meetings, quarterly half day closures, and daily coffee meetings for clinical discussions and case sharing.

We are purposeful in our efforts to manage GP workload and ensure sustainability, having developed a diverse and large team of support staff over recent years. Admin teams process letters, enact medication changes, and undertake medication reviews. We have clinical support from a large nursing team and Advanced Practitioner team. The duty team consists of a duty GP supported by Advanced Practitioners and nurses working together in the same room, creating a collaborative, supportive environment in which to manage the on-the-day workload together.

We embrace technology to enable more effective and efficient ways of working. All practices use SystmOne and AskMyGP for managing patient queries, meaning our waiting time for appointments is zero and our accessibility rating is excellent. We use MS Teams to enable regular video meetings across sites, cascade critical information, share audits and learning, and facilitate more rapid collaborative working.

For Financial Year 2025 -25, in order to alleviate GP unemployment amongst recently qualified GPs, emergency funding has been made available through Primary Care Networks to create fixed term GP Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme roles. There are strict eligibility requirements attached to this funding, see Annex to this Job Description. Please ensure that you meet these requirements before applying.

The funding must also be spent by 31 March 2025. While extension of the funding is anticipated, this is not currently guaranteed. Therefore the offer currently is for a fixed term contract until 31 March 2025, subject to extension of funding.

For the session rate offered you will be expected to carry out 13 clinical contacts per session or 25 per day. These will be a mix of remote and face to face. You will not be expected to hold a patient list. You will be located primarily at Staploe Medical Centre in Soham but may occasionally be asked to work from one of our other nearby practices in Ely and Haddenham.

We are looking for GPs to join Mereside Medical who believe in our vision for high quality, locally relevant primary care, at scale, and who wants to actively engage in our delivery of that vision. You will have a passion for medicine, for learning, and for finding solutions or new ways of working. You will be excited by the prospect of embracing new technologies and keen to transform the way we deliver care. You will be the kind of GP who thrives in a collaborative team, are confident to seek support when you need it and supporting of your peers when they do. You will seek learning from challenge, and humour from life.

We offer a substantive benefits package to all of our GPs, and have put in place comprehensive mentoring from a Partner or Lead GP for all salaried GPs, including this fixed term GP ARRS appointment. For permanent salaried appointees, we offer a range of additional benefits listed below that may become available to you, if the ARRS GP funding is extended.

We understand how important it is to offer genuinely flexible working, and are always open to a conversation about what working arrangements would suit your personal circumstances. If you're the right fit for us, then we'll do our best to be the right fit for you.

We offer the following benefits under this fixed term ARRS GP appointment:

Mentorship from a Partner or Lead GP

Medical Defence Organisation fees paid

Six weeks holiday plus bank holidays and one week study leave pro-rated

In addition, for permanent salaried GP appointments we offer:

Contribution to relocation costs

Flexible working arrangements to balance your commitments in and outside of work

Tier 2 Visa sponsor

GP career progression framework

Support to newly qualified GPs on the Fellowship scheme.

To join our team please send your CV and covering letter to: cpicb.mereside-recruitment@nhs.net

For informal enquiries please contact:

Dr James Howard - jhoward11@nhs.net, or

Dr Antoinette Hadida Savvas - anttoinette.hadidasavvas@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• How is it determined if a GP is newly-qualified?
• The cut off is 2 years post CCT, DES 7.3.10 - B19.3 on the start of employment or engagement.
• Can newly qualified GPs already employed by a practice be claimed?
• The GP cannot have been or be already in substantive employment as a GP within General Practice in the same practice or another practice prior to 1 October 2024 for a PCN to claim for them under the ARRS scheme. DES 7.3.10
• There is some flexibility on previous employment if a GP is with a practice/PCN for a short specific length of time, they may be eligible for the ARRS post, subject to prior approval from the ICB.
• If a GP is within 2 years of CCT, but is employed as a partner as part of a new recruitment - is this allowed?
• Yes. There is no reference in the DES to this being restricted to salaried GPs.
• Are there any other criteria for ensuring eligibility for reimbursement?
• The GP must be on the performers list DES B19.2 & must be registered with GMC DES B19.2 and must not be suspended or have any restrictions DES B19.1

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Mereside Medical Group

Address

Brewhouse Lane

Soham

Ely

Cambridgeshire

CB7 5JD

Employer's website

https://www.meresidemedical.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)