General Medical Practitioner(GP)

Are you a dedicated General Medical Practitioner (GP) looking to make a real difference in the community? Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is seeking passionate GPs to join our innovative, patient-centered teams on a fixed-term basis. To work as part of a multidisciplinary team undertaking remote clinical support through telephone and video consultations within our Hospital at Home service to patients across East & North Hertfordshire. Our Hospital at Home service provides short episodes of hospital level care to patients in their own home either as early supported discharge or to prevent an admission or hospital attendance which helps to release capacity in hospital. As an experienced GP you will work as part of a team within our Integrated Care Coordination Centre in Stevenage to deliver high quality medical support to patients looked after by HCT. The team which includes GPs, Advanced Care Practitioners, Pharmacists, Nurses and Therapists provides high quality innovative care to our patients enabling them to be cared for in their own home environment as part of an integrated system wide approach to Hospital at Home care. The role also provides the opportunity to further develop new pathways and implement the use of new technologies within our Hospital at Home service, The post holder will be required to:

• Have strong relationship building skills to work positively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and across partner organisations including but not limited to ambulance, out of hours providers, social care and mental health clinicians.
• Have excellent communications skills.
• Maximise the best clinical care delivered in the patient's own home to reduce the need for hospital admission.
• Assess patients via telephone, video call or jointly with other appropriate members of the team who are face to face with the patient with access to Point of Care Testing, diagnostic testing and dedicated support lines with acute consultants to support your decision making.
• Agree a clinical care plan with the support of remote monitoring technology where clinically appropriate to support the patient to remain in their home environment wherever possible including the ability to initiate IV antibiotics.
• Liaise with GPs and acute consultants to ensure the patient receives the most appropriate care.
• Participate in regular specialist MDTs.
• Utilise the community nursing and therapy clinical assessments, observation and examination findings, including those on the remote monitoring dashboard, and then review the patient, make a diagnosis and a management plan and order tests as required.
  
  HCT is a high performing and dynamic provider of community services throughout Hertfordshire and West Essex, making about 1.8million contact a year with service users. We employ around 3,000 staff who are at the forefront of NHS care and support. Our last inspection by the CQC in May 2020 rated our services as good.
At HCT we believe that healthcare should support people to live their own lives, make their own choices and be independent. We deliver high value healthcare and excel as a community service organisation. Partnerships matter to us and we are committed to working across organisational boundaries to ensure our patients and population receive the best care to improve their wellbeing. The trusts visions, values and strategic objectives are closely aligned with those of our ICS partners. Delivering the objectives of the local health and social care economy are therefore critical to HCT in achieving its own strategic objectives.