Home Visiting Salaried GP, Maidstone

Maidstone, Kent
Menlo Park Recruitment

A genuinely rare and exciting opportunity to join a vibrant and young partnership in a semi-rural Maidstone area. The surgery is based in an incredible new state-of-the-art building, complete with a wellbeing garden, café, library, and break-out area. The staff room is the real social hub of the practice. The practice has a genuinely proactive and forward-thinking approach and enthuses over trying things differently. They offer outstanding patient care and have an unprecedented focus on GP and clinical wellbeing.

Location – Maidstone (South)

Your role –

This is a unique and interesting role, that will be well suited to a GP with a special interest in care of the elderly. This GP will lead the small home visiting team of Paramedics and Pharmacists, ensuring the best care is delivered to the residents of 1 Nursing Home and 3 Care Homes, totaling 100 beds. This GP will also audit and manage home visiting requests and ensure the most appropriate clinician is assigned – either yourself, Paramedic or Pharmacist.

The role will involve liaising with the Clinical and Management teams in the Homes, assessing prescribing needs for the residents and prioritising their comfort and care.

The role will not have a standard GP clinic in practice; however, if all visits and ward rounds have been done, you could help the team by signing prescriptions and managing pathology results.

No duty doctor, no extended hours.

• 5 sessions (this can be a job share – 3 sessions + 2 sessions)

Benefits of the role –

• Exceptionally forward-thinking practice with a young, vibrant partnership
• Workload is regularly reviewed and managed
• Well established team with great retention
• Unique levels of support, genuine culture of support and being valued
• You must be qualified as a General Practitioner and registered with the GMC and UK Performers List

The surgery –

• Based in a state-of-the-art purpose-built surgery
  • Large windows, bright, airy space
  • Staff room – social hub of practice, pool table, table tennis, library, and break-out area
  • Wellbeing garden and café
  • Designed with staff wellbeing in mind – warm, inviting space
• Proactive, solution-finding, open culture of improvement
• Outstanding team and support structure
  • Pharmacist
  • Prescribing Nurses & Minor Illness Nurses, Practice Nurses
  • Prescribing Physio
  • Patient Champions – run projects and events
  • Highly-skilled admin team
• High QOF achieving

Benefits –

• Session rate: £11,000-£11,500 (dependent on experience and special interests)
• 6 weeks annual leave
• 1 week study leave

Next Steps:

For further details on this exceptional role, please click the Apply Now button. If you can specify the best time to talk, please do; we will get in touch when it suits you best. You will then be contacted by one of our specialist consultants, who will provide you with further details about the role.