Salaried GP Unscheduled Care / Community React Team inInce-In-Makerfield inInce-In-Makerfield PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

This innovative post will provide the Postholder with a unique opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team supporting people to age well.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the Postholder will work flexibility across a wide range of services within the community, community and intermediate care beds in addition to supporting safe discharge form hospital.

The Post holder will support where appropriate a rapid response function to all setting within the community, enabling continued management of patient within a community setting, preventing avoidable admission/attendance in secondary care.

This role will provide medical advice and guidance to community care colleagues.

The Post holder will work with clinical managers to ensure that services are delivered in accordance to national quality standards.

An Enhanced DBS with Children’s and Adults' Barred List checks will be obtained during pre-employment checks.

This post involves contact with patients and families face to face within a community setting. Therefore it cannot be ruled out that the postholder may come in to contact with people who have COVID-19, although the Trust provides PPE and takes all reasonable steps to minimise risk.

To work flexibly across a wide range of service timetables within a community care setting, providing face to face consultation sessions, clinical sessions, telephone triage, home visits, case management and clinical administration.

To assess, investigate and (where appropriate) undertake clinical reviews, for all referrals to CRT/Intermediate Care Community Services and community beds including frailty assessment.

To review and action diagnostic test promptly.To provide medical support/advice to other primary and community care colleagues. Utilising and asset based approach and promotion of self management to support ongoing care.

To promote and implement “end of life” strategies (Gold Standard Framework etc.), delivering high quality palliative care. To facilitate and support advance care planning including ceilings to care plans

To provide medical input and cover to virtual wards, community beds/residential nursing, EMI care homes, IMC beds, Daily ward round for community beds and home visits.

To work closely with other primary and community care colleagues in locality hubs/teams to deliver high quality patient centred clinical care. This will include where appropriate attendance/participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings (MDTs).

The service is operational seven days a week and own transport is essential for the ability to travel across the borough

Choose Well – Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alex Meace Job title: Operational and Performance Manager Email address: Telephone number:

Head of operations and performance