Job Title: Salaried GP
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £84,264 – £86,739 per year (pro-rata for part-time)
Job type: Permanent – Full Time/Part Time positions available.
Background:
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed and highly motivated GP to join our Practice and leading Primary Care Network (PCN) in Ashington, Northumberland. The post is offered with a view to Partnership if desired. We are a really friendly place to work and we are proud of the kind and supportive culture we enjoy at our practice.
Because our practice is also a PCN and covers a population of 50,000 patients, we can develop innovative strategic programmes and new models of care along with local system partners. It’s a great time to join us as we embark on the next phase of our development journey.
Our GPs are supported by an excellent nursing and wider multidisciplinary clinical team including Nurse Practitioners, Mental Health Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers and Musculoskeletal Practitioners as well as a highly experienced administrative and management support team to reduce the admin burden and help manage your daily clinical workload.
Valens has a proactive approach to population health management working closely with local delivery partners to improve patient care. We work in an MDT model with a daily frailty MDT ward round to look after our most vulnerable frail patients. We also have a mental health MDT that meets weekly to help manage those patients who are, for example, currently on waiting lists for the local mental health services.
All Valens GPs receive a paid session per week (pro rata) for admin work and supporting professional activities. This is in addition to your clinical sessions, but you do not need to come into the surgery to perform admin related duties in this paid session. Valens GP admin workload is very light because most hospital letters are read, coded and filed by trained administrators without a GP needing to see the letter. You will only be sent a small handful of hospital letters each day thus reducing workload considerably.
Once a month all clinicians take part in an education afternoon during protected time where we have guest speakers (such as local consultants) and we can cover any new local pathways and guidelines that come along, prescribing updates and so on. There is also time for breakout sessions for small group discussions including covering any significant events for appraisal purposes.
Our practices & locations:
Valens Medical Partnership is a training practice with 8 practice sites based in Central and South East Northumberland. We are rated as ‘outstanding’ by CQC. Our Ashington site (list size 15,000) has 9 GPs, 2 GP Trainees and an F2 Doctor, 3 Prescribing Nurse Practitioners, 4 Practice Nurses, 3 Health Care Assistants and a Community Nursing Team. We have a great relationship with our site-based community Nursing Team and support from local Health Visitors, Midwives, Podiatrists, Dieticians and Speech Therapists.
The surgery is within five miles of Morpeth and the North East’s stunning coastline and Coast and Castles national cycle route, with some of the country’s most dramatic and unspoilt coastline, including beaches at Alnmouth, Amble, Craster, Druridge bay and the famous castles of Alnwick, Warkworth and Dunstanburgh. Ashington also has easy access to Newcastle’s restaurants, theatres, mainline rail station to Edinburgh and London, and Newcastle International airport, as well as Northumberland National Park – all within 30 minutes by car. Newcastle International airport, as well as Northumberland National Park – all within 30 minutes by car.
Potential candidates are welcome to get in touch to arrange an informal discussion or a visit to the practice, please click the APPLY button below.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: GP, General Practitioner, Doctor, may also be considered for this role.
