Lead Community GP - Team Up Swadlincote

Job summary

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We are looking for an experienced GP to lead our new home visiting service for housebound patients. Focussing on delivering care in the most appropriate and efficient way possible. Team up is a Derbyshire initiative bringing together Health, Social Care & Voluntary Sector, delivering the best care for our patients.

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Full time or part-time working considered.

If you are interested in new ways of delivering Primary care; leading a team of high performing senior clinical staff; a collaborative approach to deliver patient care; supporting the professional development of others and delivering care in a holistic way then this is the job for you.

Employed by DCHS NHS FT you will deliver care for the patients within Swadlincote PCN. You will work closely with the GP's and other staff within the PCN, the HVS Team and the wider DCHS Community Teams.

This is an exciting time to join the team here in South Derbyshire as we bring together the Health, Social Care and Voluntary sectors to provide the best care in the right place at the right time for our patients.

Main duties of the job

The key responsibility will be triaging and managing referrals to the HVS and allocating them to the most appropriate clinician in the team. Leading the development of the team and the HVS alongside the PCN is a significant part of the role.

• Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency service to deliver effective, efficient and high-quality Primary Care services to Housebound Patients.
• Mentorship, guidance and support to clinical decision making throughout the whole extended team.
• Medical assessment and management on behalf of and in conjunction with members of the team.
• Senior clinical triage for the Acute Home Visiting service, to determine the urgency and type of response needed, according to clinical need.
• Provide education and mentorship to members of the team, especially those in advanced or extended practice roles, including trainees.
• Lead on and contribute to quality improvement and learning activities, including audit, service improvement, PDSA cycles and learning event analysis.
• Build relationships across the extended team including, but not limited to social care, ambulance, social prescribers, community, and mental health clinicians.

About us

This is a new Team of highly skilled healthcare professionals employed by DCHS with full NHS terms and conditions including access to the NHS Pension scheme.

You will be working on behalf of Swadlincote PCN.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.