General Practitioner

General Practitioners (GP) – Skegness UTC

Salary £106919.48- £149189.97 per annum for 37.5 hours per week

Part time posts available, flexible working options

The UTC GPs are expected to maintain the present h igh quality standards o f all service delivery areas and encourage and promote the d evelopment o f excellent clinical care and clinical go vernance. The post will work as pa rt of a multi-disciplinary team of p rofessional and administrative colleagues to provide a range of appropriate services to the community of Lincolnshire.

We are looking for proactive, dedicated and dynamic individuals who can be part of a fast- moving, innovative and ambitious team, dedicated to supporting members of our communities to manage their own health at home and reduce the need to go into hospital.

We are rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (only 4 community trusts in the country who are) and are playing an integral part in shaping future health service provision countywide alongside partner health and social care organisations.

We currently are looking for clinical outstanding, committed GPs to support our Urgent Care Centre workforce at Skegness.

Patients treated within the service can walk-in to these centres or can attend for a booked appointment by calling NHS 111. In addition to building based, face to face appointments, LCHS provides a home visiting service and a virtual Clinical Assessment Service that operates 24/7 and provides senior clinical assessment at the front end of Urgent Care.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more.

• To provide, as part of a core team of GPs, Practitioners, Trainee Practitioners, Nurses and other support staff, high quality UTC medical services to the community of the Lincolnshire in line with local and national priorities.
• To provide consultation and appropriate clinical management of patients accessing OOH services in Lincolnshire, via NHS 111, 999 or by self-presenting at Urgent Care centres.
• Where clinically indicated to provide consultation and appropriate management for patients visiting the UTC.
• When rostered for CAS shifts, to provide efficient and clinically appropriate management by telephone triage consultations of patients contacting the service. Support of the CAS is also required at times of high demand for all Clinicians working within Urgent Care and OOH, including Clinicians that are rostered for other duties.
• To develop and encourage positive working relationships with local GP Practices, housing, social work, voluntary services, drug and alcohol, mental health, dental, secondary care and other appropriate services.
• To keep contemporaneous, accurate and legible records of all patients encounters and contribute to electronic data recording and audit as directed by LCHS.
• To participate in the supervision, education and mentoring of students, trainees and other professionals as may be required by LCHS.
• The duties of the post are subject to review from time to time in the light of changing requirements of the service.
• The post holder may be requested to perform exceptional irregular commitments outside normally rostered duties as are essential for the continuity of care and in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.