The GP Liaison plays a key role in strengthening the relationship between general practice and secondary or specialist healthcare services. They act as the primary point of contact for GPs, ensuring timely communication, smooth referral processes, and collaborative care planning across services.
A GP Liaison Assessment Area (sometimes Called a GP Assessment Unit Or GP Triage Unit) Is a Dedicated Unit Within The Hospital That
- Receives patients referred by GPs.
- Provides rapid assessment, diagnostics, and short-term treatment.
- Aims to prevent unnecessary admissions by offering same-day care, observation, or quick referral to outpatient services.
This role supports the strategic goals of improving patient access, continuity of care, and service integration by ensuring that GPs are informed, engaged, and supported in their interactions with hospital or specialist teams.
To establish, develop, maintain, monitor and facilitate the delivery of services at departmental level, ensuring services provided meet organisational objectives, divisional service strategies and quality accounts.
A high-profile, proactive, accessible and responsive leader working autonomously, with clinical responsibility for a defined patient group in hours and out of hours.
Responsible for direct liaison with GP’s, external agencies, community colleagues, WMAS, commissioners and clinical specialty teams to ensure appropriate and timely referrals.
Key role in triaging and streaming appropriate patients from ED to SDEC / combined assessment areas within SWFT, facilitating safe transfer and patient flow, expediting investigations and decision-making.
Able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met.
Possess a comprehensive knowledge of admission avoidance / ambulatory pathways / services both within SWFT and the community.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cheryl Markham Job title: Clinical Lead Email address:
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