GPwER Women's Health

Job Overview
An exciting to join the Primary Care Alliance's Women's Health Hub as part of our innovative and Community Gynaecology Service.

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced General Practitioners with significant experience and passion for Women's Health who wish to develop advanced knowledge and practical skills within a supportive, multidisciplinary team.

Working alongside experienced GPwERs, Community Gynaecologists, and collaborative partnership, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care closer to home whilst helping transform women's healthcare across Berkshire West.

What We Offer
We are committed to developing clinicians with specialist expertise in Community Gynaecology.

Successful applicants will benefit from:

• Direct training and support from experienced GPwER, Community Gynaecologists and Consultant Gynaecologists.
• Comprehensive Training Portfolio
• Regular consultant-supported MDT meetings and case discussions.
• Dedicated teaching sessions and protected learning opportunities.
• Support to develop advanced procedural skills within a governed framework.
• A friendly, collaborative multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding patient care.

Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity to provide specialist assessment and management of women referred into the Berkshire West Women's Health Hub, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within agreed clinical pathways whilst further developing your specialist skills, through a structured and supportive environment for professional growth.

Responsibilities include:

• A mix of triage, virtual and face to face consultations
• Assessment, diagnosis and management of a wide range of benign gynaecological conditions within the Community Gynaecology Service.
• Independent management of patients within agreed competency levels.
• Performing community-based gynaecological procedures appropriate to training and competence such as

• Removal of lost IUS
• Difficult insertion of IUS
• Cervical polypectomy
• Assess and manage incontinence and prolapse symptoms including vaginal pessary
• Cervical cautery

• Participation in MDT and other clinical meetings where appropriate.
• Contributing to clinical governance, audit, teaching and service improvement initiatives and ensure service is complaint with CQC legislation.
• Supporting delivery of Berkshire West Women's Health pathways and promoting consistent evidence-based care across Primary Care.
• Continuous Learning: Maintain an up-to-date knowledge base in womens health, actively engaging in the training and professional development

About us
The Primary Care Alliance CIC is a GP-led provider organisation delivering high quality primary care services at scale across Berkshire West.

Representing 36 member practices serving a population of over 580,000 residents, the Alliance works collaboratively with general practice, Primary Care Networks, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) to design, mobilise and deliver high-quality healthcare closer to home.

Our ambition is to strengthen primary care through collaboration, innovation and operational excellence. Over the next five years the Alliance intends to significantly expand its portfolio of commissioned services, supporting the delivery of neighbourhood health, integrated care and innovative models of primary care across Berkshire West.

Our current portfolio includes the Reading Urgent Care Centre, Women's Health Hub, Lipid Optimisation Programme and Practice Resilience services, with an ambitious programme of growth including Same Day Access, proactive frailty services, neighbourhood health and future commissioned services.

As a Community Interest Company, we exist to improve health outcomes for our local population while supporting the sustainability of general practice across Berkshire West.

Job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:

• A mix of triage, virtual and face to face consultations
• Assessment, diagnosis and management of a wide range of benign gynaecological conditions within the Community Gynaecology Service.
• Independent management of patients within agreed competency levels.
• Performing community-based gynaecological procedures appropriate to training and competence such as

• Removal of lost IUS
• Difficult insertion of IUS
• Cervical polypectomy
• Assess and manage incontinence and prolapse symptoms including vaginal pessary
• Cervical cautery

• Participation in MDT and other clinical meetings where appropriate.
• Contributing to clinical governance, audit, teaching and service improvement initiatives and ensure service is complaint with CQC legislation.
• Supporting delivery of Berkshire West Women's Health pathways and promoting consistent evidence-based care across Primary Care.
• Continuous Learning: Maintain an up-to-date knowledge base in womens health, actively engaging in the training and professional development

Clinical Development Opportunities

• Vulval disease assessment.
• Developing procedural skills through supervised practice and competency assessment such as pipelle and vulval biospy.

Training and professional development opportunities provided by the clinic.

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified GP with Gynaecology interest
• Evidence of further postgraduate gynaecology educational activities / Experience in Community Gynaecology
• DRCOG.
• DFSRH.
• Experience in quality improvement or clinical audit.
• Experience teaching or supervising healthcare professionals.
• Experience contributing to pathway development or service improvement.

Desirable

• Advanced BMS/CoSRH Certificate in Menopause Care.
• MRCOG/ diploma in gynaecology

Experience
Essential

• Be fully registered with the GMC and GP REGISTER
• Hold a current licence to practise.
• Be up to date with appraisal and mandatory training.
• Senior clinician with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience in UK
• Hold current cervical Certification-up to date with national cervical screening program guidelines
• LARC Procedures: Competent and confident in intrauterine system/device (IUCD/IUS) insertion and removal
• A strong commitment to Women's Health/GP with Extended Role in Womens Health GwER.
• Have excellent communication and consultation skills to deliver high quality patient-centred care.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development.

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.