Salaried GP

Due to the relocation of one of our GP associates, an opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, forward-thinking team from August 2026. We are a two-site PMS practice with 5 partners and 3 salaried GPs serving a population of 12,500 residents. Sutton is located on the border of South West London and Surrey, with excellent transport links into Central London and close accessibility to the Surrey countryside. Sutton has sought-after grammar, state, and independent schools in the locality, making it a highly desirable area for families to live in.

Main duties of the job:

• 4-6 sessions available as a Salaried GP
• Fantastic new building in Belmont with state-of-the-art facilities and parking available
• Benhill surgery conveniently located next to Sutton High Street
• Well-established training practice with GP trainees and medical students
• Personalised lists with excellent continuity of care
• Multi-professional team with Nurses, Phlebotomists, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Social prescriber, Health coach, and Mental health practitioner
• GPSI's in Dermatology, Women's health, Family planning, and Minor surgery
• Specialist interests and leadership roles encouraged
• Active member of Cheam & South Sutton PCN and Sutton PCNs CIC
• Home visiting service run by paramedics, limiting the number of GP home visits
• Weekly on-site practice clinical meetings with lunch provided
• Supportive huddles and social activities with a focus on staff well-being
• Consistently high QOF achievement
• Minimal extended hours with no other out of hours commitment
• One session (half day) duty doctor session each week
• Expertise in looking after care home residents with frailty and dementia
• EMIS Web, Docman, AccuRx, Surgery Connect Systems
• 6 weeks annual leave and 1 week study leave (pro rata)
• Enhanced indemnity fees paid by practice along with annual training grant
• Start date August 2026
• Interviews planned face to face week commencing 22nd June 2026

About us:

We are a well-established two-site GP Practice based in Sutton, Surrey. We are part of Cheam and South Sutton PCN and Sutton PCNs covering Central Sutton, Carshalton, and Wallington. We are under South West London ICB. We are a high-performing practice, with good networks with fellow practices and local providers. We have one site very close to Sutton Town Centre and the other site is in Belmont. Our population is diverse, and we have areas of affluence and social deprivation local to both sites. We are a friendly team, with excellent Partnership and Management leadership. We have a team of over 40 staff excluding ARRS staff and a very high staff retention rate. The sessions required are ideally between 4-6 sessions and we have some flexibility on days and timings. We actively encourage extended career development for all of the team.

Job responsibilities:

The post-holder will deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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
• QOF engagement and Long Term Condition Management
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• 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
• Personalised list system including home visits with the support of the PCN paramedic led Acute Home Visiting Service
• On call cover will be required at least one session weekly with additional holiday and buddy support
• Nursing Home / LD or Residential Home lead responsibility
• Participation in leadership and training roles in the practice

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 Snomed coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
• MDT Meeting Engagement
• Weekly Clinical meeting attendance
• Annual Practice Away Day attendance

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 of 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 correcting 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
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

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 people's 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.

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, with 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 team's 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 people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• In practice as a General Practitioner / Locum Practitioner.
• Commitment to and experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF).
• Experience supporting service changes.

Skills and Attributes:

• Understanding of health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
• Good understanding of QOF.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Commitment to education and training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care.
• Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
• Provision of enhanced services.
• Competent user of EMIS Web and Docman.

Qualifications:

• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
• Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983.
• Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
• Accredited as a member of Royal College Of General Practitioners (MRCGP).
• Competent user of Emis Web and Docman.

Disclosure 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.

Depending on experience, Competitive Salary depending on experience.