Bank GP - Intermediate Care and Hospital at Home (Virtual Ward)NHS

Job summary

Bank GP - Intermediate Care and Hospital at Home (Virtual Ward)

Are you a GP passionate about high-quality, person-centred care? Do you enjoy multidisciplinary working and want to help shape innovative community services? We are seeking Bank GPs to support our Intermediate Care and Hospital at Home services.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing GP-led model that supports people to receive treatment closer to home. Flexible bank opportunities are available across bed-based, community and virtual pathways.

The Stamford Unit is a 96-bed Intermediate Care facility providing rehabilitation, end-of-life care, step-up admissions and complex discharge support. You will provide medical care for patients, undertake ward rounds and work alongside ACPs, Nurses, Therapists and Social Workers to deliver coordinated care.

Our Hospital at Home service provides hospital-level care in patients' homes through remote monitoring, telemedicine and multidisciplinary support. Working with Urgent Community Response teams, advanced practitioners and specialist services, you will undertake clinical assessments, support admission avoidance and early discharge, and contribute to personalised care planning.

This varied role combines community-based acute care and digital healthcare, offering opportunities to develop interests in frailty, older people's medicine, palliative care and telemedicine while helping deliver innovative models of care across Tameside and Glossop.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership across Intermediate Care, Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward services, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality care.
• Undertake assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and ongoing management across bed-based, community and virtual pathways.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated, person-centred care and support treatment, escalation and discharge planning.
• Deliver clinical care through ward rounds, home visits and telemedicine consultations.
• Support admission avoidance, early discharge and care closer to home through Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward pathways.
• Manage patients with frailty, rehabilitation, chronic disease, palliative and acute care needs in line with best practice.
• Work closely with primary care, community services, care homes and system partners to ensure seamless care.
• Contribute to service development, pathway improvement, innovation and the promotion of best practice.
• Participate in clinical governance activities including audit, incident reviews, complaints, patient safety investigations and quality improvement.
• Work flexibly across services to meet patient and operational needs.
• Support the development of colleagues and act as a role model for professionalism and clinical excellence.
• Demonstrate the Trust's CARE values, promoting compassionate, respectful and inclusive care.

Job description

The job description provides a comprehensive overview of the key duties and responsibilities associated with this role, while the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. The document is available to download from this page.

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.