GP - Overnight OOH

We have immediate opportunities for Overnight GPs to join our Out of Hours (OOH) team.

Working as a salaried or self-employed GP with Fed Bucks offers competitive pay, flexibility, a good work life balance, training and career development opportunities, and round-the-clock clinical and operational support.

Our multidisciplinary OOH team provides primary care services across Buckinghamshire for patients who require medical attention when their own GP surgery is closed. This includes weekday cover from 18:30 to08:00, as well as 24-hour service at weekends and on bank holidays, delivered via telephone consultations,face-to-face appointments and home visits. In addition, we provide in-hours telephone support for ourmember practices Monday to Friday, 08:0018:30.

We welcome applications from experienced GPs who are considering a career move or are seeking additional hours alongside another role.

The overnight GP will cover the period from midnight to 08:00 alongside another GP. The two clinicians willbe based in different parts of the county at Wycombe Hospital and Stoke Mandeville Hospital andwill work jointly within the central advice pool to triage patients. Any base appointments or home visits required will be undertaken by the clinician located at the Primary Care Centre (PCC) closest to the patients address.

Overnight GPs will be working alone; however, they will have a driver with them.

An experienced OOHs GP, previously worked with Fed Bucks and Buckinghamshire is desirable.

To provide timely high quality clinical care, telephone consultations (average 1 every 15 minutes),base appointments (1 every 20 minutes) and home visits (1 an hour, dependant on location).

To monitor the central, advise pool for patients safety.

To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and level of health care needs.

To be competent in dealing with face-to-face base consultations, home visits and triage cases overthe phone.

Keep good quality up to date medical records including ensuring appropriate documentation andcoding is used to provide consistent RCGP audit requirements.

To provide clinical advice and support to team members as requested.

To develop and maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers ensuring effective care delivery.

To promote effective communication processes between all team members to enable good working practices.

To maintain communication processes with acute and other colleagues and partners in care toensure care delivery

Fed Bucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 46 GP practices covering a population of over 550,000patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at ourhead office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting general practice.

Fed Bucks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to share this commitment and to uphold the organisations safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced background check (e.g., DBS) prior to appointment, and regular safeguarding training will be provided and required.

Please see attached or email us  the full Overnight GP Job Description.

• - Greater than 3 years post-CCT experience
• - Evidence of working in General Practice in the UK in the last 12 months
• - Evidence of working overnights in the UK in the last 12 months
• - Greater than 12…