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Salaried GP for Urgent Treatment Centres

On-site in Carlisle·Part-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £100,000 - £130,000 a year
About £5,710 - £6,720 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Carlisle
Contract: Part-time
Closing date: Apply by Monday 16 November

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The role

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated salaried General Practitioners (GP) with an interest in Urgent Care to join our team working across the Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs) in Cumbria. As a GP in our UTCs, the post holder will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, safe, and patient-centred urgent care to our local communities.

As a salaried GP in Urgent Care, the post holder work closely with a skilled multidisciplinary team, including advanced clinical practitioners, nurses, and healthcare support staff, to deliver safe, high-quality, and patient-centred care for a broad range of urgent but non-life-threatening conditions.

The post holder will be responsible, along with the multidisciplinary clinical team for the delivery of urgent care within the North Cumbria Urgent Treatment Centres. The post holder will be expected to actively join in teaching and training of more junior doctors and medical students and to join in audit activity.

The post holder's clinical expertise and leadership will ensure patients receive timely assessment, treatment, and clear onward care pathways. Providing expert clinical care across our Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting safe and effective urgent care delivery.

Main duties of the job

We actively encourage applications from GPs who wish to combine UTC work with ongoing GP practice work, enabling successful candidates to maintain their core general practice commitments alongside their Urgent Care role. Flexible working arrangements are available, making this an ideal opportunity for GPs seeking a varied and sustainable portfolio career.

Provide expert clinical care across our Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting safe and effective urgent care delivery.
Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes.
Play an active role in the wider unplanned care programme, including departmental meetings, multidisciplinary discussions, teaching sessions, and audit reviews.
Take part in audit and quality improvement activity, supporting evidence-based practice and service development

There will also be opportunity to actively contribute to the teaching and training of junior doctors, medical students, and trainee advanced practitioners.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyforeligiblevacancies.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Hold appropriate medical qualification to practice medicine in the UK
Fully registered with General Medical Council with current Licence to Practise
Hold a certified GP qualification (or within 6 months of qualification)
Registered on a regional Performers list with no restrictions to practise

Desirable

Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Primary Care - Ability to diagnose and manage common medical conditions
Excellent verbal, written and electronic communication skills
Ability to safely and confidently prioritise patients presenting problems
Ability to identify and assess complex problems
Good organisational skills
Knowledge of local services
Recent general practice experience
Experience of telephone consultations
Ability to sign post to allied services

Desirable

Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty
Experience of minor injury assessment, management to include x-ray interpretation, manipulation and joint relocation
Previous experience of UTC working

Management & Administrative

Essential

Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the service.
Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently

Desirable

Experience of audit management

Teaching

Essential

Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Desirable

Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
Teaching of non-medical health professionals.
Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

Experience of, and commitment to medical audit.
Experience of research and Clinical Governance

Desirable

Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Publications in referred journals

Communication skills and abilities

Essential

Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
Team loyalty
Positive approach to lessons learnt
Confident approach without being arrogant

Desirable

IT Skills
Presentation skills

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Essential

Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.
Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.
Participation in appropriate peer review processes.

Desirable

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Personal Attributes

Essential

Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to travel to fulfil the requirements of the post
Positive approach to change
Flexible to service needs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).