Care Home Hub GP
| Posting date: | 17 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £11,000.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £11000.00 a session |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2026 |
| Location: | Weston-super-mare, BS23 3HQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A3508-26-0002 |
Summary
The role of the GP within the team is as follows: To provide clinical assessment of care home residents, via a mix of preventative (proactive) and acute (reactive) medicine. To undertake holistic assessment of residents needs and devise creative solutions, utilising the skills of the MDT to best effect. To produce a dynamic personalised care plan for healthcare professionals and care staff to follow, which includes treatment escalation planning and a detailed, realistic ReSPECT form in keeping with the wishes of patients and their families where appropriate. To provide continuity of care to resident, family and care home staff. To provide senior clinical support for complex decision making, when clinical lead of the day. To take clinical responsibility for decisions and ongoing management of your patients, drawing on the skills of the MDT as needed. To contribute to peer learning and education, via significant event analysis, case based discussions and other formats. To provide support, clinical advice, supervision and feedback to students and other members of the MDT. To be actively involved in promoting adult safeguarding. To advocate for high quality, appropriate, patient-centred care for older or vulnerable adults. Record data and assessments in patient records systems promptly and accurately and to agreed standards ensuring appropriate use of read codes and templates, with awareness of QOF targets and local DES specifications. To compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing in accordance with BNSSG prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate, working with our pharmacy hub. To instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports at a level that is appropriate for the patients degree of frailty and their treatment escalation. To contribute and bring ideas for continuous improvement including developing / improving care pathways for older people and contributing to QIP and audit. To review medication using a Structured Medication Review, alongside team pharmacists. Lead and/or participate in specialist MDT meetings dementia/mental health, palliative care or complex care with support of the team and our community mental health and geriatrician colleagues To provide outreach input to cases in any of our care homes across the PCN identified as in need, to support our team of ANPs working across Pier Health. This may be complex cases, a home recognised to be in difficulty or to support our local safeguarding processes.