Community GP

Derby City South PCN is looking for a Community GP to work within our Acute Home Visiting Service - 'Team Up'. The post is for 1-2 days a week, and this must include a Tuesday. Your own transport will be essential to travelling across the PCN. This is an unique opportunity to join a service delivering care to the most vulnerable and complex patients within the PCN. The postholder will work within a multidisciplinary team supporting patients to age well. Home visits and proactive care in the patients own home, as well as integrating with and leading the broader community response, are key to this role.

Main duties of the job

• To work flexibly across a wide range of service timetables within a community care setting, providing face to face consultation sessions, clinical sessions, telephone triage, home visits, case management and clinical administration.
• To review and action diagnostic test promptly to provide medical support/advice to other primary and community care colleagues.
• To promote and implement "end of life" strategies, delivering high quality palliative care.
• To facilitate and support advance care planning including ceilings to care plans
• To provide medical input and cover to virtual wards, care homes, community beds/residential nursing

About us
Derby City South PCN is a Primary Care Network covering the south of Derby City, and the north of South Derbyshire district. Consisting of six practices and a 100,000 population, this is a large PCN delivering the Derbyshire 'Team Up' specification - an ageing well program aimed at integrating care for housebound and complex patients. The PCN places patient care at the heart of everything we do, with safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity being of the upmost importance. You will be employed by Derby City South Healthcare Limited - the delivery arm of the PCN.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the Elderly
• Understanding of adult safeguarding and Deprivation of liberty procedures
• Experience of multidisciplinary working.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
• Experience of medical education/clinical supervision

Qualifications
Essential

• A vocationally trained and accredited GP
• Current registration with GMC
• On the GP Performers List
• Full UK Driving Licence and own transport.

Desirable

• MRCGP
• Recognised qualification in care of the elderly
• Recognised qualification in medical education/clinical supervision.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.