GP Assistant
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustJob overview
We have an opportunity for 1 x full-time GP Assistant based at Royal Primary Care Brooklyn, HEANOR. You will join a growing establishment committed to being a flagship organisation and an at scale provider of primary care services in the Midlands. If you are enthusiastic, caring and passionate about delivering the highest quality care, keeping patients at the heart of all you do, we want to hear from you.
Do you have experience of providing care and support to people in primary care, the community or care homes? Or maybe you're an experienced HCA from General Practice looking for a new challenge?
Royal Primary Care Brooklyn is seeking an experienced healthcare assistant with an interest in frailty to support our multi-disciplinary team of professionals – including working alongside our colleagues in the ARCH PCN (Alfreton, Ripley, Crich and Heanor) and other stakeholders in the community.
· 37.5 hours - RPC Brooklyn, HEANOR
This is a developing role within our practice team providing care to vulnerable, frail and housebound patients. This role will also involve working alongside GPs and Advanced Clinical Practitioners aligned to care homes, supporting with HCA tasks, the weekly ward round and annual long-term condition reviews as required.
RPC Brooklyn is ideally situated between Derby and Nottingham and has been serving the healthcare needs of the local community for over 120 years.
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This is an excellent opportunity to join a different kind of GP practice, an innovative, forward thinking training practice. Our vision is to be an exceptional provider of family medicine, dedicated to our patients, and we’re on a mission to improve our community’s health and reduce inequality.
Royal Primary Care have a team of over 170 people dedicated to our patients, working across 3 sectors covering Chesterfield, Clay Cross and Heanor. Our Nursing team are essential to ensuring that we always provide an outstanding level of nursing care to our patients.
You will work collaboratively as part of our multidisciplinary (Heanor) team of clinicians to meet the needs of our patients, delivering the highest standards of patient care. You will undertake a diverse range of assessments and provide the appropriate care / treatment according to patient needs, striving to improve standards of care and enhancing nursing services within the practice.
Depending on experience, contribution to the monitoring of Long-Term Chronic Disease management of our patients will also form a large part of the role. Knowledge of the GMS contract e.g. The Quality and Outcomes Framework will be valuable to the post.
Working for our organisation
Royal Primary Care is a division of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, providing primary care services for over 50,000 patients and aspiring to be an exceptional provider of family medicine dedicated to our patients and community. Being part of a larger organisation brings about many benefits. As well as an NHS pension, you’ll have access to training and development opportunities and a whole raft of well-being initiatives to look after your physical and mental health. At Royal Primary Care, your wellbeing is key to our appraisal system, and we place great
importance on everyone feeling included. You’ll have an equal say in how we look after you through access to our annual staff survey.
*(Please note that this is NOT Agenda for Change, however we have competency bands that we match to appropriate roles/skill levels)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments.
This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
COVID19 Vaccination
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
UK Points-based immigration system
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.
Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.
This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.