Job summary
- Main area
- Community Urgent Care GP
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- 0 hours per week (Bank contract)
- Job ref
- 267-MSGPUCMAY25
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Witney EMU - Abingdon EMU - Henley RACU
- Town
- Witney Abingdon Henley
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Urgent Care GP (Bank)
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Job overview
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (OHFT) Community Health Services, Dentistry and Primary Care
Directorate comprises of several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care.
Main duties of the job
The primary role for the bank CUC GP will be to work clinically to support the delivery of county wide, 7 day, 0800-2000, Community Urgent Care in Oxfordshire. The bank CUC GP will be providing medical cover in one of our community SDEC sites (Abingdon, Henley, Witney). Your main working base will be one of our cSDEC sites, where you will have a hands-on role, working with our teams, assessing newly referred patients to the units, and those who have returned for follow up.
Work is all adult based, a mostly elderly cohort, and focused mainly on the Urgent Care interface between primary and secondary care services in Oxfordshire, aiming to keep patients closer to their homes.
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team” Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Competitive salary to be agreed with individual applicants based on experience, recognising the requirement for some work in the out-of-hours period.
- Excellent opportunities for career progression.
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- Generous annual leave
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff networking and support groups
- Opportunities to learn, teach and engage in personal development activities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In all cSDECs, you will be working with our excellent multidisciplinary teams consisting of nursing teams and therapists.
Please see attached JD for further information on the work undertaken in our cSDEC sites and your role as a key member of the team within this service.
This is a flexible, bank role and shifts are between 9 and 12 hours (including unpaid breaks) arranged during weekdays and public/bank holidays.
Salary is based on an hourly bank rate.
Shortlisting, interviews and appointments will be managed as applications come in, and the advert may close at any time once sufficient number of GPs have been recruited.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with licence to practice Up to date with appraisal and revalidation requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Active NHS clinical experience in:- General Practice with demonstrable experience in working with urgent care and older people
Desirable criteria
- • Subspecialty experience of working at the Interface between general medicine and primary care;
- • Experience of working with virtual ward rounds.
- • General (or Community) & Acute Geriatric Medicine; OR General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Urgent care
Personality
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work in a high functioning MDT with respect for the roles and experience of other team members
Desirable criteria
- Able to tolerate a degree of clinical risk
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)
Desirable criteria
- • Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medicine • Postgraduate teaching qualification • Relevant post-graduate diplomas e.g. Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Skills
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and its application
Organisation & Management Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively
- • Commitment to active clinical governance
- • Ability to promote effective team working
- • Capacity to prioritise workload
- • Active participation in clinical audit
- • Commitment to interagency partnership working
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience of administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
- • Inter-agency partnership working and development
Leadership Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of national and local agendas in respect of primary care commissioning, frailty pathways, and urgent care agendas.
Teaching & Academic Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in supervising medical trainees
- • Application of research evidence to clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- • Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- • Experience of mentoring or teaching non-medical clinical colleagues
- • High quality research as evidenced by publications and citations.
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- • Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations.
- • Good spoken and written English
Desirable criteria
- Good IT skills, familiarity with EMIS, Cerner, Adastra
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 Sachin Mandalia
- Job title
- Consultant Medical Lead for Acute Emergency Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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