General Practitioner (GP) in Moreton

We're looking for a GP who shares our vision and wants to practise medicine with purpose. You'll manage a varied caseload across our diverse patient population, with protected time and support to develop lifestyle medicine skills and contribute to health equity initiatives.

The post holder must:

• Have a GMC registration with a licence to practise
• Be qualified to MRCGP or equivalent
• Be included on the NHS England Performers List
• Commit to providing high standards of clinical care
• Be able to work independently and within a team

Clinical responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality, person-centred care across the full scope of general practice
• Support good care through the efficient use of digital tools for clinical triage, repeat prescribing, clinical correspondence and test results
• Work collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team (nursing, pharmacy, social prescribing, health coaching)
• Contribute to practice-level projects addressing local health inequalities (e.g., outreach clinics, partnership work with community organisations)
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement

About You

Essential:

• GMC registration with a licence to practise and inclusion on the GP Register for at least 2 years
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and understanding of the social determinants of health
• Genuine interest in lifestyle medicine and prevention-focused care
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach

Desirable:

• Experience working with underserved or marginalised communities
• Quality Improvement, teaching, or leadership experience

What We Offer:

• A supportive, values-aligned team
• Funded training in lifestyle medicine and health inequalities
• Flexible sessions and genuine work-life balance
• Time protected for professional development, mentorship, and special interest work

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant 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
• Attending training and events organised by the organisation or other agencies, where appropriate

Safeguarding:

All employees have a duty and responsibility to protect and safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults. They must therefore be aware of child and adult protection procedures to take appropriate and timely safeguarding action and reduce the risk of significant harm to adults and children from abuse or other types of exploitation.

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 business of the organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

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 recognises 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 are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• 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 organisation, 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 recognise 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