Job description
DHU Health Care CIC is looking for Salaried GPs to join our Leicester family!
DHU Health Care is an ever-growing, innovative organisation with a sole focus on quality patient care, providing high level clinical care for a variety of communities within an expanding geographical area. DHU Health Care delivers and develops first class services specialising in Integrated Primary and Community Urgent Care services.
DHU is a Community Interest Company that has a history going back 30 years. DHU exists to provide caring, high quality, safe and effective healthcare to our patients and the communities we serve. We have no shareholders, and our profits are reinvested in the services we provide.
Within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland we provide a number of services. If you are working as a GP locally, you probably utilised one of our services. These include:
1. 24/7 Home Visiting Service
2. Loughborough Urgent Care Centre
3. Leicester City Hubs
4. Overnight community nursing services
5. Numerous urgent and primary care centres in Leicestershire and Rutland
6. NHS 111
In all our services, we have achieved CQCgoodin all areas.
A bit about our GP surgeries
We have almost 15,000 patients in our 2 GP surgeries across 3 sites in Leicester City. These are historically GP surgeries which have struggled. With our expertise these GP surgeries are rapidly improving, and this has been recognised by CQC and our positive NHS Choices feedback.
We have ambitious plans for our GP surgeries. We are investing in our clinical workforce with a multidisciplinary team to include:
7. Upskilled Health Care Assistants and nursing team
8. Advanced Clinical Practitioners
9. First Contact physiotherapists
10. Pharmacists
This is a great opportunity to be a part of a highly regarded organisation who value every member of the team and invest heavily in staff development and progression.
We will invest in your professional development to develop specialist interests. Our clinical model means that our GPs work as GP consultants, supporting a multidisciplinary workforce.
About you
You will be committed to excellent patient care, ‘muck in’ and have a proactive approach and bring new ideas about how to develop the practices.
We genuinely value having someone who will get on with us.
Have a self-reflective personality – this is important as it means that you will be always be learning and striving to do better.
We encourage a portfolio career. We believe that it will keep you fresh and enthusiastic, just as it does for us!
Benefits of DHU
11. Learning & development opportunities
12. Opportunity to work within our other services
13. Competitive rates of pay
14. NHS Pension
15. NHS continuous service honoured for annual leave & sickness
16. Generous Holiday entitlement
17. Indemnity cover included
18. Access to Westfield Health
About our management team
Dr Saurabh Johri -Clinical Director for DHU Health Care in LLR
19. Works for DHU 2 days a week and in his own practice in North West Leicestershire 3 days a week.
20. Enjoys all things gadget and Apple related
21. A Star Trek fan
Martin Reeves - Clinical Service Lead for DHU in LLR
22. Responsible for the 2 GP practices and 4 city Hub
23. Emergency Care Practitioner currently on the ACP Program
24. Keen Gardener
Does it sound too good to be true – well it isn’t! You will be free to visit and talk to our clinical and management team to understand what it really is like to work for DHU.