Your profile, docs, certs & competencies

As a staff account user (this can be many types, both clinical and non-clinical), you are able to manage all your documents and certificates within your Profile as well as add any additional qualification or competencies to your Profile.

These help employers you connect with to see your suitability for particular types of work.

The principles is that, the information you create within your Profile is shared with the employers you choose to connect with, within the network. Many employers have a hub so using the hub management section of your account, you can control which hubs you are connected with. As well as this, if you choose to be visible as a locum in the network, practices can see your profile information.

Hub interactions with your information

Hubs maintain and manage a workforce within their account. They onboard staff users that join their hub by verifying the information that the staff user profile shares with their hub and generating their own compliance process and compliance related information, stored at their end. Once a hub has onboarded you they will enable you within their hub. This means you are eligible for assignment to requirements within their hub rotas.

You can leave a hub by disconnecting within your hub management screen. This removes your information from the hub but not a history of your rota activity or the information they may have generated related to your compliance for their hub.

Hub requirements

Hubs can have slightly different document / certificate requirements. These are expressed through the docs and certs management in your account as required or not required documents. Generally, it’s best to upload as many documents and certificates as you can to your profile to maximise your opportunity within any hub.

Expiry dates

Some certificates have expiry dates. These can be set when you upload the file to your profile. Hubs can also see any relevant dates. Expired certificates are the same as not having a certificate uploaded in that they can prevent you being compliant to a hub and not being eligible to work in that hub.

Reminders

The system will send document expiry date reminders to you in advance of a document in your profile expiring and another notification when a document expires. Hub administrators can also see expired documents and will also be notified by the system when an active member of their hub workforce has a document expire.

Workforce pools, priority of assignment, delegation and resilience

Workforce pools provide a useful grouping of a mixed workforce, that supports a priority based approach to solving rota requirements.

The pools are the basis of a logical approach to understanding your workforce based on the levels of trust, commitment and cost that exists within the relationship.

The workforce pools,

  • Partners
  • Employed staff (not a partner)
  • Staff bank
  • Staff bank flexible staff
  • Flexible staff
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  • Network locums

By thinking in terms of these pools of staff, a hub rota manager can use the built-in rota features to control access to shifts and assignment, among the pools. This provides a basis for a bespoke approach to escalating requirements outward, into less trusted, potentially more expensive groups of staff, in a logical way that optimises the hubs ability to use trusted staff and save money.

Connecting with hubs

How to connect with hubs from your account

If you would like to connect with a new hub service, such as a Federation hub or a PCN hub, its very easy to do so, via your existing account, in the app or on a desktop computer.

Simply login and visit your Hub management section.

In there you can add new hubs. Click ‘Add Hub’ and choose one, such as the ‘Brighton and Hove Federation GP Practice Bank Staff’

This action will add the hub to your Profile and contact the hub managers to let them know you have requested to join.

They can then see your account from their end and enable you into their Hub.

Once enabled in the hub you will become part of the Hub workforce and be able to assign to shifts created by that hub.

A member of the Hub management team will then contact you about further onboarding, but most information they need will already be automatically passed to them when you join the hub, via your existing profile.

Once enabled in a new hub, all shifts and assignments show in your unified Schedule, alongside nay others that are relevant to you, based upon other employers you are connected with within your account.

If you need any support with any of this or anything else related to your account, you can contact a member of the network Admin team anytime using admin@gpnetworks.co.uk

Providing winter crisis capacity support

Dec 2022 / Jan 2023

The ICS is supporting these services with flexible staff.

Staff required: GP, ANP, ACP

Rates:

GP
£175 per hour (Bank Holiday rate) , £100 per hour normal weekday rate

ANP/ACP
£100 per hour (Bank Holiday rate) , £45 per hour normal weekday rate

Clinicians are urgently needed for the following shifts in the locations:

Provider Site Contact
IPC Worthing william.tourle@nhs.net
IPC St Richards william.tourle@nhs.net
SCFT Crawley UTC andrea.strudwick@nhs.net
UHSx Worthing gerrie.roberts1@nhs.net
sarah.walsh41@nhs.net
UHSx St Richards gerrie.roberts1@nhs.net
nikki.hoar@nhs.net
ESHT EDGH paul.cloves@nhs.net
ESHT Conquest paul.cloves@nhs.net
ABC QVH angelina.lee@nhs.net
debbie.brownings@nhs.net
sarah.watts17@nhs.net
ABC PRH angelina.lee@nhs.net
debbie.brownings@nhs.net
sarah.watts17@nhs.net
ABC Crawley UTC angelina.lee@nhs.net
debbie.brownings@nhs.net
sarah.watts17@nhs.net

Message from: sxib.sussextraininghubs@nhs.net

Renewing a simple practice subscription

If your subscription has expired you are not ‘locked out’ of your account.

The practice account continues to allow login and only prevents access to the calendar etc.
This allows the account user to login and mark subscription as paid, as described in images below
After login you see this screen below
If you click the 2nd button, you see the 2nd screen below and account is unlocked, plus an invoice is sent to your email and an email notification is sent to us.