Location: Practices across Pendle valley, East Lancashire
Salary: £99,000 PA (9 sessions pw). Up to £11,000 per session PA (dependant on experience)
Hours: Various hours available, including full time and part time options
Start 2023 at PWE Healthcare at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust
Come and join us at PWE Healthcare in 2023 and be a part of a brand new NHS innovation, bringing together primary and secondary care services under East Lancashire Hospitals Trust to deliver safe, personal and effective care to 25,000+ patients at PWE Healthcare.
As a salaried GP with us, you will find a rewarding career awaiting you with excellent benefits and an opportunity to make a real difference to the care of the local community. Along with excellent clinical support, a well organised service, supportive and skilled clinical leads, we also have a fantastic multi disciplinary team made up of friendly and experienced colleagues to work with.
We are dedicated to our patients, their care and their safety and we know that to achieve this we need to support and care about our colleagues too. We know that being a GP is more than just a job. We have high standards and expectations but will do everything we can to work with you to support you personally and professionally, because we want you to love working at PWE and ELHT as much as we do.
Learn about the job role:
PWE Healthcare is a group of five GP practices based across the East Lancashire footprint, who recently became part of ELHT in a ground-breaking collaboration to positively affect the relationship between Primary and Secondary care, with the Patient at the forefront of all we do. We are an innovative group of Practices and benefit from being part of East Lancashire Health Trust to continuously seek improvements in delivering high quality, patient centred care.
Along with excellent clinical support, a well organised service, supportive and skilled Clinical Leads, we have a fantastic multi-disciplinary team made up of friendly and experienced colleagues to work with. We benefit from a mix of advanced nursing practitioners (AHP), physician associates, skilled nursing staff including nursing associates and health care assistants and have a clinical pharmacist to further support our GPs in the day to day running of our practices. We also benefit from a dedicated Administration Hub to support the smooth flow of work through our five practices.
As a salaried GP with us, you will undertake a variety of work including routine and more complex consultations with patients, rotational on call duty, home visits and workflow admin and tasks. We operate a patient choice policy so patients can be seen either face to face or via a telephone consultation. We are also keen to support and develop any special interests you may have to further enhance the primary care services we offer, and you will be supported to pursue this.
As an experienced GP, you will know the role isn’t without its challenges, but we can promise you that you will find a rewarding career awaiting you at PWE with excellent benefits and an opportunity to make a real difference to the care of the local community.
- Undertake practice-based patient consultations, face to face or over the telephone according to their choice, providing the highest standards of care for all patients
- Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting undifferentiated and undiagnosed medical problems, making a full assessment of their health needs
- Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness and develop ongoing health care plans for management
- Manage patients with chronic disease or complex problems and palliative care needs
- Develop care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- Carry out home visits to patients, as necessary
- Undertake duties as on call GP on a rotational basis
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with workflow queries and tasks, paperwork and related correspondence in a timely manner
- Record full, clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards using EMIS
- Participating and contributing towards QOF work
- Support PWE Healthcare in achieving its contractual requirements for both core contract and enhanced services
- Respond rapidly to emergency situations in practice as needed
- Work within a clearly defined job plan setting out hours of work and responsibilities and tasks associated with the role
Benefits
- Flexible working as standard
- 1x session of paid CPD per week (pro rata)
- Paid indemnity cover
- 1 week paid study leave per year
- Vivup salary sacrafice scheme
- NHS pension
- 6 weeks paid leave per year
- ELHT family culture
- Dedicated PWE admin hub
Don’t just take our word for it...
Here is what Dr Bethany Killeen, Clinical Lead for PWE Nelson and PWE Rawtenstall, says about working for PWE Healthcare and living in the local area:
"I love my job and wouldn’t want to work anywhere else. Being a local GP gives you the ability to give your patients really good consistent care. It’s important to the community and I love being able to build a relationship with them; something I believe helps when it comes to mental health and palliative care. And if something isn’t right then ELHT allows me to have my say in patient improvement. Even though I live in the local area, its rare I bump into any of my patients when I am out and about.
When I worked in Oldham, the commute was awful and having young children I battled to get to work on time and was often late, which affected patients, colleagues and my own wellbeing. I also arrived feeling stressed before I even began work! East Lancashire is so well connected to the motorway network, my commute is now five minutes and I am able, thanks to the flexible working offer, to drop my six year old at school and my 18 month old at nursery before work- zero stress and I arrive on time!
I couldn’t imagine living or working anywhere else."