Job summary
- Main area
- Proactive Care Team - Neighbourhood Link GP
- Grade
- Salaried GP
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 5 sessions per week (Service operates Monday - Friday 9-5, some flexibility on distribution of hours over the week for the right candidate.)
- Job ref
- 824-HERTS-7271425
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hemel Hempstead General Hospital
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £73,113 - £110,330 Per Annum, inclusive of London Weighting, pro rata (part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dacorum Proactive Care Team - Neighbourhood Link GP
Salaried GP
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
We are recruiting a passionate and proactive GP to join the Dacorum Neighbourhood Proactive Care Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a new team delivering community-based, person-centred care for residents. The focus will be on holistic assessments, care coordination, addressing health inequalities and delivering on the strategic ambition of a ‘neighbourhood health service’.
Main duties of the job
You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting a cohort of residents with moderate to severe frailty who have had 2 or more unplanned admissions within the last year, linking them to health, social care, and voluntary sector services.
This service will see the shift from reactive care to proactive identification by using risk stratification searches within Primary Care records. The searches will identify a cohort of patients who would benefit from targeted intervention to improve outcomes, their overall experience and reduce the likelihood of further unplanned admissions. The service will operate alongside a number of other acute and community services, with the ability to step patients up in to appropriate services - including the highly successful virtual ward models in South and West Hertfordshire.
This role presents as an excellent opportunity to work in a topical area of service delivery within the NHS right now and will provide the opportunity to gain service development skills .
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full job description and person specification are included in the attached file.
Working alongside nurses, AHPs, pharmacist, and case coordinators, you will be undertaking a range of proactive assessment and interventions to enhance health and wellbeing in this patient group, identifying actions which can be taken to prevent hospital admission, avoid unnecessary admission to care homes, and support patients to live well. This will be delivered in partnership with the patient's usual registered GP.
There is a requirement to have face to face contact with patients in a clinic setting, or in the patients own home including in a care home when appropriate.
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education /Qualification
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration and on National Performers List
- General Practice CCT or equivalent (eg MRCGP, JCPTGP)
- Satisfactory Appraisal within the last 12 months (or within the most recent 12 months of work, if currently on a career break)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or other higher degree
- Extended experience in complex case management/geriatric medicine
- training in leadership and/or management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of two years core GMS experience in General Practice
- Primary care home visiting
- Safeguarding training and practical experience
- Face to face consultations
- Demonstrate an ability to lead and motivate individuals and teams
- Ability to anticipate and plan for change
- Good working knowledge of professional requirements and standards for healthcare professionals including appraisals
- Evidence and experience of networking with a wide range of stakeholders including the public, external commercial organisations and national strategic bodies
Desirable criteria
- Experience in care of the elderly medicine and in A&E/Urgent care setting
- Experience in the audit, quality improvement, clinical governance
- Experience undertaking GP sessions in SW Herts
- Experience in developing patient centred healthcare
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Willing to work unsupervised and make decisions
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Proven ability to set clear direction and articulate a compelling vision
- Knowledge of the national, regional and local policy and priorities for healthcare
- Knowledge of clinical governance systems to secure quality and safety
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Strategic and operational leadership skills
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively e.g. report writing; thesis
- Experience of acting in the capacity of an appraiser for the purposes of medical revalidation
- Experience of acting as case investigator for case investigation
- Formal research training; demonstrated ability to design a research or audit project
- Formal training in teaching methods; demonstrated ability in teaching / training.
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues, managers, patients, relatives, other agencies and staff at all levels
- Energy and enthusiasm
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexible approach
- Caring attitude to patients, carers and colleagues
- Vision for the development and enhancement of community health and providing care closer to home
Desirable criteria
- Car driver
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Kevin Barrett
- Job title
- Divisional Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07941 318696
- Additional information
Alternatively please contact
Louise Ayres, Deputy Director of Operations on [email protected] / 07795 367951
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