Job Overview
This is a fixed term appointment for a new GP in our Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The position is for candidates who are registered as a GP on the GMC register. The UTC is co‑located within the Emergency Departments (ED) at both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals.
Candidates must be willing to work closely with ED colleagues to provide care for those with minor presentations, and to use appropriate urgent investigations (blood tests, imaging, ECG) to further assess patients that may or may not require secondary care referral and to instigate initial management when required.
It is desirable that the post holder has experience working autonomously as a General Practitioner and is competent in interpreting chest radiographs and ECGs. The Trust offers a study budget and study leave to support skill development.
The UTC offers 24/7 appointments; 30-50% of all emergency department attendances are redirected to the UTC team. Our UTC clinics offer around 2000 appointments per week across both sites. The GP role is a hybrid, combining community GP skills with immediate secondary‑care investigations.
Candidates can choose from a range of vacant shifts as outlined in the job plan. No other hours or days will be considered.
Responsibilities
- Provide a high standard of care to patients for whom you have clinical responsibility.
- Participate in clinical and other service activities and developments, ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
- Work in close cooperation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients.
- Participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. Attend and participate in clinical governance work and meetings as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning.
- Participate actively in the Directorate Audit programme, sharing coordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
- Take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
- Assume responsibility, personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from HEE and HEKSS.
- Ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
- Ensure compliance with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice”, including “The Duties of a Doctor”.
- Take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practice and learn from mistakes.
- Share in the on‑call rota, and provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
- Respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
- Develop and maintain effective working relations with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
- Undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
- Undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
- Take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
- Be involved in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
- Participate on the management and future development of the Emergency Medicine service.
Qualifications
- Registered as a GP on the GMC register.
- Experience working autonomously as a General Practitioner.
- Competent in interpreting chest radiographs and ECGs.
- Willingness to work 24/7 in a hybrid community/urgent care setting.
- Adept at using urgent investigations (blood tests, imaging, ECG) and making clinical decisions related to secondary care referral.
- Ability to work collaboratively with ED colleagues and interdisciplinary teams.
A study budget and study leave are available to support development.
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