GP Lead: General Practice Fellowship Programme - Maternity Cover Post

Overview

Training Hubs are integral to Health Education England’s core purpose of supporting the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to patients and the public; ensuring that the primary care workforce of today and tomorrow are trained in the right numbers, have the necessary skills, NHS values and behaviours at the right time and in the right place.

One of the key programmes that is our responsibility to deliver is the General Practice Fellowship Programme. This is a national programme, funded by NHS England and is a guaranteed offer to all newly-qualified GPs and nurses working in general practice.

The overarching intention is to deliver a scheme that supports all newly-qualified GPs and nurses as they transition from training to an employed member of the primary care team. Taking learning from the GP Partnership Review, the supportive nature of this programme and the rotational working opportunity reflects the ways the incoming workforce wish for their roles to operate. It is hoped that this will encourage newly qualified GPs and nurses to take up substantive roles, and to develop an understanding of and attachment to the area they are working in. Thus, the programme will also help practices and PCNs to recruit and retain skilled GPs and nurses in their workforce by offering attractive roles that lead to long term employment within primary care.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

The role of the Lead GP is to lead the planning and delivery of this programme for all newly-qualified GPs as they transition from training to an employed member of the Northamptonshire primary care team.

The main deliverables of the role are to:

• Develop a 2 year GP Fellowship programme, in line with NHSEI guidance, which will include the following elements:
  • Induction (to the wider healthcare system including PCNs)
  • Supervision and coaching arrangements (including the identification and upskilling of supervisors/supervisees and coaches)
  • Peer support
  • General Practice management skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Quality improvement
  • Remote working
  • Creating portfolio working opportunities within General Practice and in Primary Care Networks
• Liaise with other Training Hubs, training schemes and universities to identify suitable programmes that will comprise elements of the Fellowship programme
• Commission programme elements where these are not provided directly by the Training Hub, and have the responsibility to ensure these are delivered locally
• Report/contribute to governance arrangements requirements, i.e. attending locality meetings and liaising with colleagues delivering other Fellowship programmes across the Midlands area
• Develop an evaluation methodology of the scheme, maintaining quality and fulfilling reporting requirements
• Ensure robust administration and data collation systems, in conjunction with the GPN Professional Development Lead (responsible for the GPN part of the General Practice Fellowship Programme) are in place.
• Connect with newly-qualified GPs to inform them of the programme and encourage sign up; connect with individuals in training to let them know the Fellowship offer is available, and promote uptake. All eligible individuals in the local area should be contacted
• Liaise with PCNs and practices to support delivery
• Support infrastructure of peer network groups
• Be the point of contact for participants, including check-in conversations as necessary.
• Manage the recruitment and workload of GP Mentors, ensuring processes are inline and compliant with NHSE requirements
• Put in place a process to allocate GP Fellows to GP Mentors and ensure suitable feedback mechanisms are in place

About you

Behaviours and Values

• Strong Medical Leadership, role model and promoter of General Practice and the wider integration agenda
• Highly motivated, proactive and with strong interpersonal skills and able to work autonomously
• Openness when approaching challenges and receptive to others’ ideas
• Ability to develop trusted professional relationships

Knowledge and Experience

• Qualified GP on the UK Medical Performer’s List
• Working in primary care within Northamptonshire
• Experience of working in professional development

Skills and Abilities

• Expert people management skills, changing deeply embedded cultures, understanding of personalities and getting the best out of people
• Ability to influence and change practice in response to agenda, development reviews, feedback
• Ability to manage conflict, persuade, motivate and facilitate others
• Exercises a wide spectrum of excellent communication skills, which includes electronic communication systems, verbal and non-verbal and in writing

To Apply

To find out more please review the role description and more detail about programme can be found in the operational guidance. . You’re also welcome to contact Dr Harriet Pomeroy, the current postholder via h.pomeroy@nhs.net or Mike Smeeton via mike.smeeton1@nhs.net if you have any further questions.

If you wish to apply for the role please send us your CV with a covering letter that sets out why you think you’d be the right person to lead this programme.

We’re looking to interview the week commencing wednesday 16th August 2023, so please send your application to mike.smeeton1@nhs.net by Wednesday 9th of August 2023

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To view details about the programme, please click the link below to download the guidance.

  GP Fellowship Guidance