General Practitioner - Out of Hours Service | Havens Hospices
| Posting date: | 10 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £255 per 24 hour on-call session |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2025 |
| Location: | Thundersley, SS7 2LH |
| Company: | Havens Hospices |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7142265/TracID7142265 |
Summary
We have an opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our bank GP service, predominantly located at our Little Havens Children's Hospice in Thundersley, Essex.
This role will support our service on anout of hoursbasis (evenings and weekends), offering GP cover and support where required.
This role will provide out of hours support for our CYP service located at Little Havens, responding by phone within one hour of the request, offering an initial triage service, advice and guidance, and attending on-site if necessary.
At Havens Hospices, we care for children, young people and adults with complex or incurable conditions. Our specialist Care Teams can support them and their family living throughout illness, death and bereavement in the comfort of their own home and through our hospice services, Fair Havens and Little Havens.
Working at Havens Hospices allows you to give the gift of time to patients and families, creating memories. Although you may not be giving direct care to our patients, your contribution will have an immediate effect on our care services.
In return for your expertise and passion, you will receive a competitive salary package, and most of all, by making the most of every day you work at Havens Hospices you’ll be helping us continue ‘Making every day count’ for those who need us most.
At Havens Hospices we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our employees and patients and expect all colleagues to share this commitment.
We value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
• To provide on call GP support to cover the charity’s hospice sites.
• To respond by phone with a maximum response time of one hour and triage the clinical situation providing advice and guidance to the nursing team.
• To respond in an appropriate timeframe for the clinical situation having provided appropriate advice and safety netting in the meantime and have clearly documented this in the relevant clinical record.
• Take clinical responsibility for decisions around the timeframe for attendance.
• Communicate accurately with the nurse looking after the patient the expected response time and ensure they are aware of when to make further contact.
• Where a response time faster than four hours is needed and it is not possible to provide this to give appropriate advice about contacting emergency services
• To consider the social and psychological circumstances of a patient and their family and the needs of the service when assessing the timeliness of response needed.
• To be available to always attend within a maximum of four hours when on call.
• To attend with a maximum response time of four hours where the nurse looking after the patient feels this is essential.
• Daily review of any person admitted for end-of-life care/symptom management.
• Review of any patient in need of medical review while admitted to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Support for discussions around intended emergency admissions to the charity’s in-patient unit.
• Prescribing safely, effectively and in line with the charity’s prescribing policy for all in-patients.
• Liaising with secondary or tertiary care centres as needed for in-patients or in preparation for admission.
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns promptly and via the appropriate reporting routes as detailed in the safeguarding policy.
• Working collaboratively with the nursing team and wider MDT.
• Attendance at quarterly medical team meetings.
• Engagement with 1:1s, internal appraisals, GP appraisals, and the revalidation process.
• Maintaining an appropriate level or personal indemnity cover.
• Maintaining mandatory training and keeping up to date with mandatory reads as required by Havens Hospices.
• Appropriately reporting incidents or near misses and being engaged in the process of investigating these as needed.
• Responding in a timely manner to feedback or complaints
• To liaise with the lead bank doctor around the co-ordination of the rota to always ensure provision of GP cover for the charity and to escalate to the Medical Director any gaps or risks surrounding this.
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025