Salaried GP - Purfleet Care Centre

Come and join a fantastic team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and others who serve a diverse group of patients. There are many opportunities to grow and develop within the practice as well as the wider organisation.

We are looking to appoint a salaried GP in our lovely Purfleet Care Centre in Thurrock. Purfleet Care Centre is situated around 30 mins from Southend and with great train links to London Lakeside being only 10 mins away!

We are a friendly and well supported - dynamic, forward-thinking practice that delivers excellent health care to our patients. You will be joining a large team where you will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of a dedicated admin support team, specialised nurses as well as highly skilled healthcare assistants. Providing care to patients and their families to a high standard, sharing best practice and always looking to actively improve the way we work and deliver health care.

As a General Practitioner, you will need to be approachable who is a source of knowledge for your colleagues. As well as making conscientious decisions in relation to challenges presented to you or from other health care colleagues over 6 to 10 sessions per week.

Main duties of the job

We have a well-trained, collaborative, supportive and dedicated team consisting of other GP colleagues, specialist Nurses, HCAs and management & admin teams all working to the same goals and aspirations that HCRG Care Group wish impart on our colleagues and patients.

As General Practitioner you will provide:

• General GP cover
• Home visits
• Delivering a high-quality service as well as drive service improvement and innovation with support from wider HCRG Care Group colleagues.

GP Responsibilities:

• Always maintain the highest clinical standards and practices in accordance with accepted good medical practice and service standards.
• Promotes the health and well-being of all medical and clinical staff within the practice by promoting efficient working methods and behaviours.
• Keeps up to date with advances in medicine and practices in line with national and local guidance and support other medical and clinical staff to do the same.
• Promotes the application of standards, protocols and codes of practice as set by Royal College of General Practitioners, General Medical Council, all other Royal Colleges and Councils applicable to the staff within the practice, Department of Health, Commissioning Bodies, and all other regulatory and standard setting organizations.
• Provide clinical advice and guidance to all practitioners caring for patients of Walk-in Health Centre.
• Demonstrates innovation in the development of practice strategy and policy.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

Job responsibilities

• As General Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team at Purfleet Care Centre:
• A competitive salary of up to £100,000.00 - £110,000.00 depending on experience- including an NHS pension.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

You will be a GMC registered with a license to practice and have a strong clinical background working in Primary Care.

On the performers list and have full GMC registration and MRCGP, with the ability to demonstrate an understanding of how working in Primary Care setting differs from hospital and can diagnose and assess the healthcare needs of patients.

Confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel.

• Full GMC Registration, MBChB or equivalent
• UK permit or right to work in the UK
• MRCGP
• Commitment to professional development
• Knowledge of the NHS
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues and health and social policy
• Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, both computerized and manual
• Experience of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A solutions focused approach
• Ability to listen and empathize
• Potential to cope with stressful situations
• Ability to undertake responsibility
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding of the role of teamwork in providing quality care
• Trustworthy
• Flexible and a good timekeeper
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Ability to manage and facilitate change

Person Specification General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.