West Heath Medical jobs in Birmingham

South Doc Services (SDS) is hiring an Advanced Medical Practitioner (AMP) on behalf of West Heath Surgery.

This will be a full time, permanent role with a 37.5 hours per week contract arrangement. The job location is at West Heath Surgery, 194 - 196 West Heath Road, Birmingham, B31 3HB. Pay / Salary is dependent on experience level.

If you wish to have the full job description, please email rhiannon.aiken@nhs.net

The Advanced Medical Practitioner (AMP) will provide high-quality, safe, effective and person-centred clinical care to patients registered with West Heath Surgery who reside in designated care homes.

The post-holder will work as an integral member of the Practice multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with GPs, advanced practitioners, practice nurses, clinical pharmacists, community nurses, therapists, care coordinators, social care professionals, care-home staff and other relevant health and social care professionals.

The post-holder will contribute to the delivery of proactive, personalised and coordinated healthcare for care-home residents, with an emphasis on:

• prevention of avoidable deterioration;
• early identification and management of acute illness;
• proactive management of frailty and long-term conditions;
• personalised care and support planning;
• medicines optimisation in collaboration with the appropriate prescriber/pharmacy professional;
• reducing avoidable hospital admissions;
• facilitating timely access to secondary and community care;
• supporting residents to remain in their preferred place of care wherever clinically appropriate;
• effective multidisciplinary working;
• continuity and coordination of care; and
• safe, evidence-based clinical decision-making.

The role will support the Practice in delivering its contractual requirements under the current NHS England Network Contract DES and Enhanced Health in Care Homes arrangements. The current EHCH model is designed around proactive, personalised and integrated care for people living in care homes rather than a predominantly reactive model.

The post-holder will work within their individual scope of professional practice, competence and authority. Where an activity requires GP, consultant, specialist or other professional input, the AMP will recognise this promptly and escalate appropriately.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

The post-holder will support delivery of the Practice EHCH service in accordance with:

• the current NHS England Network Contract DES;
• the current Enhanced Health in Care Homes framework;
• the Practice’s agreed care-home operating model;
• the Practice's clinical governance arrangements;
• relevant ICB requirements and local pathways;
• NICE guidance and other national clinical guidance;
• relevant safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty requirements;
• information governance requirements;
• local medicines-management policies;
• relevant CQC requirements and care-home policies; and
• professional standards and regulatory requirements.

The AMP will:

• Participate in scheduled care-home ward rounds as part of the multidisciplinary team and according to the agreed Practice care-home model.
• Work collaboratively with care-home staff to identify residents requiring clinical review, prioritising according to clinical urgency, frailty, risk and agreed care-home processes.
• Contribute to proactive identification of residents at increased risk of deterioration, hospital admission, falls, medication-related harm, malnutrition/dehydration, pressure damage and other significant health risks.
• Contribute to personalised care and support planning, ensuring that the resident's wishes, preferences, capacity, communication needs, clinical needs and goals are considered.
• Support timely clinical assessment of new or returning care-home residents and contribute to the Practice's arrangements for comprehensive assessment and personalised care planning following admission/readmission.
• Review and update care plans where there is a significant change in clinical circumstances.
• Work with the wider MDT to identify appropriate interventions and services that enable residents to remain safely within the care-home environment wherever appropriate.
• Participate in MDT discussions and case conferences for residents with complex or changing needs.
• Support effective communication between the care home, Practice, community services, secondary care, pharmacy, social care and other relevant agencies.
• Contribute to service evaluation, audit, quality improvement and monitoring of EHCH activity and outcomes.

The current national framework emphasises integrated working between primary care, community health, social care and care homes, with personalised care and support at the centre of the model.

Please note, the employer for this role will be West Heath Surgery, not South Doc Services.

COVID-19 vaccination statement

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. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.

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How your information will be used

1. During the recruitment process South Doc Services Ltd needs to keep and process information about you for normal employment purposes. The information we hold and process will be used for our management and administrative use only. We will keep and use it to enable us to run the business and manage our relationship with you effectively, lawfully and appropriately during the recruitment process. This includes using information to enable us to comply with the employment contract, to comply with any legal requirements, pursue legitimate interest of the Federation and protect our legal position in the event of legal proceedings. If you do not provide this data, we may be unable in some circumstances to comply with our obligations and we will tell you about the implications of that decision.

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7. Other than as mentioned below, we will only disclose information about you to third parties if we are legally obliged to do so or where we need to comply with our contractual duties to you, for instance we may need to pass on certain information in relation to pension or the CCG. Where possible, we will only share what is necessary.

8. Your personal data will be stored for a period of 6 months after you have applied for a position with South Doc Services and have been unsuccessful or declined our offer of employment.

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12. Under The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. You have the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data, the right to restrict processing, object to processing as well as in certain circumstances to the right to data portability.

13. If you have provided consent for the processing of your data you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

14. You have the right to lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioner Office if you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 with regard to your personal data.

Identity and contact details of controller and data protection officer

15. South Doc Services Limited, 194-196 West Heath Road, Birmingham, B31 3HB. UK

16. If you have any concerns as to how your data is processed, you can contact our data protection officer:

Umar Sabat – Data Protection Officer at myhealthcare.ig@nhs.net

Due to the high volume of applications if you do not hear from us by 2nd October 2026, your application has not been successful on this occasion.

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