Westongrove are recruiting! We have a number of vacancies which we have summarised below.

If you enjoy working with a supportive team that values the importance of providing the best possible care for their patients, then we’d love to hear from you.

For more information about these vacancies including full job descriptions and salary, please contact helen.shorter1@nhs.net

Dispensary Assistant – Part Time (minimum 20 hours)

We are looking for an experienced Dispenser to join our amazing team delivering courteous and effective patient service.

You will work towards delivering the technical aspects of the dispensary whilst ensuring the safe supply of medicines:

• Dealing with prescription queries at the dispensary counter, on the telephone or via email.
• Dispensing and checking of medications from prescriptions received on a repeat and acute.
• Ensuring stock levels are regularly checked and ordered.
• Complying with legal and professional requirements and accepted guidance.
• Liaise with GPs, Pharmacists and other wider health professionals regarding dispensary issues.

The successful candidate will be confident, compassionate with good communication skills, able to multitask and remain calm under pressure and want to work for an amazing team?

You will have an NVQ level 2 or equivalent and have a genuine passion for patient care and want the chance to develop your professional journey.

Administrative Assistant (Central Admin Team) – Bedgrove Surgery – 30.5 hours per week

Monday & Wednesday 09:00-13:00, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 09:00 – 17:30 (30 min lunch)

Flexibility is essential to be able to cover sickness and annual leave.

We are looking for an admin assistant to work at our Bedgrove surgery with occasional work from our other sites in Wendover and Aston Clinton. This is an exciting, busy and varied role providing efficient and reliable secretarial and administrative support to our patients and clinical teams.

You will Provide telephone support services for patients and clinicians, such as giving test results, dealing with queries about referrals, messages for doctors, queries from hospitals and other outside agencies, completing paperwork and forms from patients and outside agencies including processing Insurance report requests, opening, prioritising and distributing all incoming mail and dispatch outgoing mail to meet deadlines, managing paperwork for death certificates, cremation papers, copying notes and maintaining patient lists.

You must be confident using EMIS Web (training provided), Outlook and all Microsoft office packages, to be able to multitask effectively, manage high workloads to provide efficient support to our GPs and patients

First Contact Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal) – Full Time

We are looking for an experienced MSK physiotherapist to deliver high quality patient care within our PCN.

You will work autonomously as first point of clinical contact for patients presenting with MSK conditions or symptoms, providing the patient with the primary assessment, diagnosis and management options for their condition.

You will work as part of an MDT in a patient facing role, using their expert knowledge of movement and function issues, to create stronger links for wider services through clinical leadership, teaching and evaluation.

You will provide and receive clinical supervision and be an active provider of mentoring and coaching of specialist clinicians from a range of disciplines

You will have excellent clinical assessment and triage skills, be proactive and self motivated, able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a commitment to continued personal development and have a passion for maintaining high standards of care.

You must be a qualified, experienced MSK physiotherapist with Primary Care Experience, an active HCPC registration and can demonstrate working at level 7 within the ACP framework.

Practice Site Manager – Aston Clinton Surgery – Minimum 30 hours a week

We are seeking a highly motivated manager with proven organisational and leadership skills who can inspire their team to their best abilities. This role is based at our Aston Clinton Surgery.

This post is pivotal to running a smooth surgery; a flexible drive attitude to adapt to changes within the NHS is essential and to play an active role as part of our wider Westongrove teams.

This post will entail coordinating and managing the surgery on a day to day basis, leading on decisions rising from urgent situations to coordinating teams for an effective delivery of patient services.

The role is a direct line manager to teams based at the surgery comprising of Admin and Reception as well as supporting the clinical teams. The role is multi-faceted and includes recruitment, induction, training and appraisals, co-ordinating and developing the patient services team, communications with both patients and staff and liaising with our other team members to create and develop initiatives within administrative processes and delivery of services.

The successful candidate:

• Be able to demonstrate strong management and organisational skills
• Be able to work under pressure and multi task
• Be able to demonstrate change management and implementation
• Demonstrate an understanding of Primary Care CQC requirements
• Be able to work to deadlines and targets
• Manage and handle with respect and care patient queries in a timely manner
• Have excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Experience of staff management and HR knowledge
• Good IT skills with flexible approach to trouble shoot any issues arising
• Facilities management with health and Safety knowledge
• Experience of patient and community services, communications and engagement would be beneficial

The working hours will be a combination of morning and afternoon shifts.

Salaried GP vacancy and long term locum sessions available from 4-8 sessions

Be part of our amazing, supportive team delivering high quality, excellent primary care to our patients. We offer excellent renumeration, mentorship support . Newly qualified welcome. Locum sessions we can be flexible to work around your commitments. For more information or an informal chat please contact us.

Complex Care Coordinator – 12 months fixed term maternity cover – 37 hours per week (Wendover Health Centre)

As part of our amazing complex care team (CCT) based at Wendover Health Centre you will be offering administrative support. The role will support clinicians in their role to provide care for patients who are housebound or live-in care homes and are often frail with complex health needs.

As a complex care team coordinator, you will be responsible for the day to day running of the service, managing the office and administrative systems, taking referrals and arranging home visit appointments for the team. Help support and develop / maintain a resource centre to support the vulnerable and elderly patients.

Answer phone calls from patients and carers and give appropriate information and advice.

Help develop close working relationships with a number of other agencies, including secondary care, community care, voluntary sector, social services, promoting integration and co-ordinating care for patients and support for their carers.

Knowledge of EMIS web desirable but full training will be given.

GP workflow Support Coordinator – Aston Clinton Surgery – Part time

We are looking for an enthusiastic new team member to join our current team at Aston Clinton Surgery.

Ideally you will have previous coding/summarising experience or be accustomed to medical terminology.

The aim of the role is to streamline the flow of clinical correspondence received by the practice to the GP, you will be reviewing letters and documents for action such as coding on to patient records, referring to other teams such as Reception to book bloods for the patient, identifying the complex or higher risk areas which require GP’s attention or prioritising those that require urgent attention such as advice for medication changes.

The role is always evolving, key contribution to support GP’s workload as well as an interesting opportunity to expand your existing summarising experience or learn to use your skills in a different way.

Full support and training with practice protocols will be available.

UCS Care Coordinator (Urgent Care Service) – 37 hours per week – Wendover

We are looking for a UCS Care Coordinator to support our  Urgent Care Service (UCS) team based at Wendover Health Centre in an administrative capacity.

As a UCS team coordinator you will be the central point of contact and responsible for the day-to-day running of the service e.g. ensuring sufficient cover is in place, managing the office and administrative systems, support the clinical team in the delivery of care for our patients

Successful applicants will be provided with training from the team and supervision from the Westongrove management team.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Full time – 37 hours per week

We are looking for an advanced clinical practitioner working with our multi-disciplinary team to deliver efficient integrated urgent care to our patients with caring and compassionate approach.

The role

• Autonomous independent practitioner
• Assess, diagnose and provide treatment to patients, similar to that of a doctor
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective and plan clinical care either by triage or face to face
• Interpret results of assessments to make a diagnosis and deliver care
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan
• Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice services ensuring that the needs of the patient are a priority
• Prescribe and administer medication
• The ability to provide diagnoses with care and compassion

About you

• Experienced or with health degree and are able to manage patients with complex needs
• Act as an emergency care practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence
• Have excellent communication and clinical leadership skills
• Highly motivated with a flexible approach