Salaried GP

Job summary
Salaried GP 5 - 6 Sessions per week

(Wednesday & Friday are essential working days, but the Practice can be flexible with the other sessions)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for us to recruit an ARRS Salaried GP to join our Practice team. The position is available with an immediate start, pending satisfactory DBS screening and references.

This role is based at Castle Healthcare Practice, where all weekly sessions will be delivered. The post holder will be employed by PartnersHealth under its terms and conditions of employment.

Applications are welcomed from newly qualified GPs as well as experienced GPs, as the newly qualified within 2 years restriction has now been removed. You will receive mentorship from the Practice and our PCN.

The PCN can offer a competitive salary, based on experience and access to the NHS pension scheme. We require that applicants have already completed their GP training and have the right to work in the UK., as our PCN cannot currently support visa applications.

We would actively encourage you to visit the Practice and meet the team. Please contact us (Lisa Sullivan, Business Manager or Jack Eyre, Operations Manager or Dr Claire McCall, GP Partner) for an informal chat.

You can apply by sending a covering letter and your CV to View email address on meeveem.com

Closing date: 7th November 2026 Applications will be screened as they come into the Practice, therefore you could be offered an interview prior to the closing date.

Main duties of the job
Clinical responsibilities:

• The post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us
We are a high achieving, forward thinking and well organised teaching Practice. The team consists of 6 partners, 9 salaried GPs, a Practice Pharmacy Team, Practice Based Physiotherapists, 9 nurses and HCAs and a capable and competent administration support team.

The Practice aims to deliver high-quality care to over 17,800 patients, using SystmOne. We work from a purpose-built surgery, hosting an extensive range of extended services. As a training practice, there is an active undergraduate and post graduate teaching programme in place. We are part of the Rushcliffe PCN and are a high achieving Practice with full QoF and local enhanced service achievements. We recently received an OUTSTANDING CQC accreditation.

Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments

Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Performers list Registration
• Full GMC registration
• Annual appraisal and revalidation
• Full clean driving licence and access to car
• Evidence of Tetanus, Polio, Diphtheria, MMR, BCG and Hep B immunity
• Satisfactory DBS check
• Satisfactory references
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Excellent level of clinical knowledge
• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services
• Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF)
• Directed Enhanced Services
• Current knowledge of Department of Health guidelines/National Services Framework/Public Health guidelines
• Clinical and Information governance awareness
• Commitment to life-long learning
• Clinical audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Computer literate including Microsoft Office programs i.e. Word/Excel
• Maintaining patient records at an acceptable standard
• Understanding of clinical coding
• Investigation and diagnostics skills
• Ability to work as a team member and independently
• Able to work in accordance with the GMC guidelines
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Kind, calm, flexible, approachable & friendly
• Sensitive and empathetic
• Good team working skills
• The ability to work under pressure
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Confident to ask for advice and support if you are unsure about anything
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

Desirable

• Experience of delivering LES in Nottinghamshire
• Knowledge of Nottinghamshire ICB initiatives, including prescribing
• General understanding of the primary care contract
• An interest in a particular disease area and willingness to take a leadership role within it
• Knowledge of SystmOne
• Experience working in a large organisation
• Previous experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Producing and using clinical reports
• Experience of medicines management

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).