Salaried GP

With one of our valued GPs relocating, we\’re now looking to welcome a new enthusiastic and dedicated GP to join our friendly and collaborative team. We are proud to provide high-quality care to a diverse community, and we continue to embrace forward-thinking ways of working. Above all, we\’re committed to fostering a positive, inclusive, and healthy work environment where every team member feels valued and supported.Main duties of the job Our GPs enjoy a well-balanced work life, with 7 weeks of combined annual and study leave each year. We also support manageable workloads, with face-to-face sessions capped at just 10 x 15-minute appointments plus 4 follow up telephone calls to ensure continuity and quality patient care.Our GPs are supported by a highly skilled and well-rounded team that includes specialists in frailty, experienced clinical pharmacists, dedicated results nurses, a mental health nurse, social prescribers, and a strong administrative support team. This collaborative approach significantly reduces GP workload, allowing our doctors to focus on providing excellent patient care.About us Aspen MedicalPractice is an equal opportunities employer.The best way to truly get a sense of who we are and what our practice is all about is by visiting us in person. We warmly invite you to reach out and schedule a time to come by we\’d love the opportunity to meet you, show you around, and answer any questions you may have.Please email aspen.riskandcompliance@nhs.net and arrange a visit.The closing date for applications is Tuesday 31st March 2026 with interviews scheduled for w/c 13th April 2026.Please note that we operate a dynamic shortlisting process, with applications reviewed as they are received. As a result, interviews may be scheduled, and offers made, before the above advertised closing date. We therefore encourage early application to avoid disappointment.Job responsibilities SALARIED GP JOB PLANClinical DutiesClinical duties involve seeing patients either face-to-face or managing them through Telephone Consultations.There are different types of sessions which include

• Face-to-face clinic
• Visiting doctor
• Duty doctor
• Navigation doctor
• Non-GMS doctor
• Enhanced Access doctor

10 appointments of 15 minutes duration with catch-up slots after every 3 appointments.4 Follow-up telephone calls which are blocked; this is for you to call back any patients you need to follow-up. Occasionally if you have seen a patient and ordered a blood test, if you had not booked follow-up and another clinician has seen the test result and feels they need to follow-up with you as you had originally seen them, then the call will be booked into this slot. New work should not find its way into this slot and you will be asked to pass this back to Reception if this happens.2 sick note slots.The red emergency blocked slots are protected for Reception or duty team to use. If you need to bring back a patient urgently, please discuss with Duty or Navigation doctor on the day.Please feel free to book any follow-ups into the purple routine slots but be mindful that we are setting routine appointments at 5-6 weeks; we ask that clinicians also get patients to wait 5-6 weeks if the problem that you are bringing them back for is non-urgent.Start times at 09:30 is possible for doctors who have a school run to do but there will be fewer catch-ups.You could be doing these sessions at either Aspen Centre, Saintbridge Surgery or Tuffley Surgery. Tuffley Surgery is only open on Tuesdays and Thursdays with only routine appointments.Duty and Navigation doctor sessionsDuty Doctor, Navigation Doctor and Visiting Doctor all sit together in the Duty Hub.The job involves, triaging all home visit requests, supporting Reception with navigating patients to the most appropriate clinician, signing off prescriptions, supporting Allied Health Professionals and Trainees with clinical queries, speaking to Paramedics/District Nurses etc.There are no booked patients to see when doing Duty or Navigation doctor duties.Sitting together makes the day much more enjoyable allowing exchange of information and discussion.Visiting patients only and all visits are triaged by the Duty Doctor.2 sick note slots.4 Follow-up telephone calls which are blocked; this is for you to call back any patients you need to follow-up. Occasionally if you have seen a patient and ordered a blood test, if you had not booked follow-up and another clinician has seen the test result and feels they need to follow-up with you as you had originally seen them, then the call will be booked into this slot. New work should not find its way into this slot and you will be asked to pass this back to Reception if this happens.If you have no visits, we hope you will help Duty and Navigation doctor sign off the electronic prescriptions or you may wish to triage your own visits when you are not out on the road.Non-GMS session comprises visiting Great Western Court (reablement unit) and Charlton Lane (Old Age Psychiatry hospital) to provide GP services. Each day we have one doctor assigned to cover this and you will not have any other appointments in this session.Enhanced Access session is really a later session starting from about 4pm and finishing at 8pm.Each day a doctor is assigned to do EA and will start their morning clinic at 10am (i.e. you will work from 10am to 8pm instead of 8:30am to 6:30pm).To recognise the clinician for the unsociable hours, you will receive £100 per EA session that you do on top of normal pay.Surgery times and session lengthMorningsessions generally start at 8:30am and should finish by 1:00pm for lunch.Afternoon sessions generally start at 2:00pm and should finish by 6:30pm.These are very busy times but we value everyone getting away on time.Locum sessionsIf you are interested in locum sessions, please let the Appointment Book team know (Amy Cheape and Debbie Bateman); you will then be copied into emails when we have dates needing locum cover.Every doctor is given a session out for their annual appraisal please let the Appointment Book team know at least 7 weeks in advance when you are deciding on your appraisal date.AdministrationYour main admin is generated from seeing patients, referrals, results etc.Documents are minimal and most clinicians will have no more than 4 to 5 documents per day.Results from investigations you order. On your non-working days and when you are on leave, Admin team at 9:00am each morning will clear your results inbox and share it out to all available working clinicians that day. Therefore, on your normal working day, you would expect to get a share of other colleagues results who are not in that day.Reports are centralised and done by our Admin manager therefore you are not given reports to do.If you have been involved with a child/family who require a Safeguarding report, the report will be prepared by Admin team who will add this to your list to check and send you an email to let you know. Once you have checked the standard report they have prepared it and are happy, then you email them back to let them know that it is fine to send off.Electronic prescriptions are signed off by Duty, Navigation and Visiting doctors.Tasks, Results, Documents and emails should be checked on your working days.There are monthly Protected Learning Time meetings between 1:00-3:30pm on alternating Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. These are educational sessions with both internal and external speakers arranged. Significant events are also discussed at these sessions. Learning bulletins are generated monthly to share learning.There are also monthly Safeguarding and Palliative/Frailty meetings that take place if you are interested in coming to those.Special interestsIf you have a special interest in a particular area and you are keen to develop this further please do not hesitate to have a discussion with Dr Hasib Khalid. We are keen to support personal development if we can and there are certainly more opportunities in a large practice like this.However, if you are enjoying just being a GP, good on you as well because doing this job alone is challenging enough. You do not have to have a special interest to be a valued member of the Aspen team.Mentoring and supportDr Hasib Khalid is the nominated partner looking after salaried GPs.But please feel free to approach any partner you feel most comfortable with for regular ongoing mentoring and support.New joiners may feel happier with regular meetings with their chosen mentor; we do not wish to impose anything but would be very happy to have regular meetings and indeed that may be advisable for at least the first few months.Person Specification Qualifications Fully qualified GP, eligible to practice in the UK with GMC registration & on the Medical Performers ListGeneral Practice (Vocational Training Scheme) trained or equivalentAnnual appraisal and revalidation (where appropriate)Experience of GP Clinical IT systemsAbility to work well within a practice teamPro-active and self-motivatingAbility to recognise own limitations and act upon them appropriatelyCaring with the ability to listen and empathiseHonest, good humored and able to display integrity at all timesAccountable, trustworthy and dependableUK driving licence and car ownerMRCGPExperience with using SystmOneQualified GP trainer, clinical supervisorExperience of working autonomously and managing own patient listExperience or willingness to support GP Registrars in their daily surgeriesSelf audit and reflectionDisclosure and Barring Service Check 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.

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