General Practitioner

If you are passionate about being a GP and delivering outstanding patient care but are looking for a better work-life balance, South Tyneside Health Collaboration would love to talk to you.

South Tyneside Health Collaboration manages two general practices, one in the beautiful coastal village of Whitburn and another, a developing training practice in central Jarrow, with a combined list size circa 8,500.

We host 3 PCNs within South Tyneside as well as deliver several primary care services such as mental health, spirometry, Covid Vaccinations, Admiral Nursing service and Health and Wellbeing outreach.

Due to the expansion of patient services, we are looking for a salaried GP to work 4-8 sessions flexibly across the organisation. The successful candidate will be predominantly based within our practices, with the potential to develop their career into other areas within STHC. We can be flexible with number of sessions and working days for the right candidate.

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Duties and Responsibilities

As post holder you will be expected to support STHC in providing all services outlined in the GMS contract, including work outside of core hours (Enhanced Access).

You will be expected to support and input into areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the STHC Clinical director.

You are encouraged to utilise and develop skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as child health surveillance, family planning training or any other skills that would be required for services STHC wishes to sign up to. This will of course be subject to presentation of the appropriate qualifications.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records in line with GMC guidance. Full involvement in STHC training and ongoing maintenance of our status as a paperless practice is expected.

You should be competent to work as duty doctor as well as dealing with other daily enquiries coming your way. It is also expected that you may be involved in the monthly care home and practice MDT meetings. It is expected to be able to complete all work by the end of the working day, for example prescriptions, tasks, lab links and referrals.

You will be expected to maintain and keep good standards of documentation using EMIS.

Who are STHC?

STHC is a valued system partner, originally set up to enable South Tyneside General Practices to work collaboratively in delivering services at scale across the borough of South Tyneside.

We employ over 100 staff of both clinical and non-clinical roles, across the delivery of our 4 Core Functions:

• Clinical Service Delivery
• Practice Management
• Primary Care Network Hosting
• Business Services

What do we offer?

• A motivated, multi-skilled and engaged workforce with a one-team ethos and a culture of valued and happy staff.
• Family friendly policies and flexible working options to support you in balancing your priorities.
• Resource sharing across 2 GP surgeries.
• Part of a Primary Care Network with access to a range of clinical support roles including Pharmacists, Podiatrists, MSK professionals, Mental Health Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Health Coaches as well as practice teams of highly skilled Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
• Attractive salaried as well as GP lead roles.
• Generous annual leave allowance plus one week of self-managed study leave and protected CPD time.

Job responsibilities

As a salaried GP you will be mainly based within our STHC practices, however, you may be asked to do specific work for STHC as required; there will be exciting opportunities to develop and be involved with projects across South Tyneside.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties of the post are to provide a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed appropriate. These visits must be triaged and only offered to genuinely housebound patients.

As the post holder you…