Salaried General Practitioner (Gp)

Job summary

Chiswick Family Practice is seeking a dedicated, motivated, enthusiastic and forward-thinking General Practitioner to join our friendly practice team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated GP who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive and collaborative primary care environment.

The postholder will primarily undertake patient-facing clinical work, contributing to the delivery of safe, effective, and responsive general practice services to our registered population.

The role also offers opportunities to contribute to wider practice initiatives and quality improvement activities.

We are looking for an individual committed to excellent clinical care, teamwork, and continuous improvement, who thrives in a dynamic and patient-centred environment.

Main duties of the job

Assess and triage patients, including same-day presentations, providing treatment or referrals in line with NICE guidelines and local pathways.

Manage undifferentiated and complex conditions through history taking, examination, diagnosis, and care planning.

Deliver face-to-face and telephone consultations, supporting long-term conditions, acute presentations, and undertaking clinical administration (prescriptions, referrals, and test results).

Provide high-quality, evidence-based care and prescribe in line with national and practice policies.

Support vulnerable groups, including care home residents, and identify and manage mental health needs with appropriate referral.

Accurately interpret pathology results and ensure effective use of read codes.

Assist with clinical emergencies, safeguarding, and medicines optimisation.

Contribute to QOF and practice targets, liaise with external services, support personalised care plans, and undertake home visits where required.

About us

Chiswick Family Practice is a well-established, friendly and supportive GP surgery located in West London, committed to providing high-quality, patient-centred care to our local community.

We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and inclusive working environment, where teamwork, professional development, and innovation are encouraged.

We have a team of approximately 20 staff and have an excellent reputation within the local area and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the practice timetable, the GP will work autonomously, delivering care within their scope of practice to the patient population.

Contributing towards clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous, and complete patient records
• Work within professional competence and GMC guidelines
• Deliver care in accordance with CQC standards and best practice guidance
• Prioritise and manage workload effectively to maintain high standards of care
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team
• Provide supervision and support to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
• Contribute to practice meetings, clinical discussions, and service development
• 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.
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service deliver and patient care.
• Participate in the review of significant and near‑miss events
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Confidentiality
• Whilst 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 will 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 adopt 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)

• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others.
• Hand hygiene standards for self.
• 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.
• 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.
• Correct waste and instrument management including handling, segregation, and container use.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.
• Equality and Diversity
• 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 CPD and revalidation are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training may include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of ones 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 performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
• Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will:

• 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

• Essential Criteria
• Fully qualified General Practitioner
• Registered with the General Medical Council GMC with a licence to practise
• MRCGP qualification or equivalent
• Inclusion on the NHS England Performers List
• Membership of a recognised medical defence organisation e. g. MDU, MPS
• Experience in diabetes management and long-term condition care
• Experience of working within a primary care setting
• Experience using clinical systems and maintaining accurate patient records
• Ability to manage a wide range of clinical conditions
• Experience undertaking clinical administration including referrals, prescriptions, and pathology management
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Highly motivated, organised, and adaptable
• Commitment to high-quality patient care and continuous professional development
• DBS check required
• Right to work in the UK
• 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.
• UK Registration
• Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see www. healthcareers. nhs. uk

Desirable

• Desirable Criteria
• Special Interest or additional qualification in Diabetes Care
• Experience leading or supporting diabetes clinics within primary care
• Experience with Systm One
• Experience in triage and urgent care
• Experience contributing to service development or innovation within General Practice
• Experience working with elderly or complex patient groups e. g. frailty, multimorbidity
• Understanding of population health and health promotion strategies
• Knowledge of Quality and Outcomes Framework QOF and clinical audits within primary care
• Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
• General understanding of the GP contract.

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.

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