GP (Maternity Cover) in Chester

Dr Anderson and Dr Khine are seeking a GP to cover maternity leave from July/August 2026 at Lache Health Centre, Chester, south of the River Dee. Lache Health Centre is a friendly, hard‑working 2‑partner practice serving a registered population of 8,000 patients and is part of the Chester South Primary Care Network, working collaboratively with 3 other Chester City practices. The role is for up to 9 months, 6 sessions per week, starting July/August (tbc) 2026.

Main duties of the job

• Provide medical services for the practice population to a high standard, including day‑to‑day activities such as surgery consultations, telephone advice, telephone consultations and home visits, and appropriate administration to ensure accurate records, patient continuity and quality of care.
• Comply with the requirements of the practice’s General Medical Services (GMS) contract, Enhanced Services contracts, educational/training delivery contracts and private contracts.
• Contribute to decision‑making and management in the practice in order to develop services, ensure quality of care and maximise income.
• Adhere to the principles of good medical practice.
• Maintain clinical records (manual/electronic) in line with good practice and in accordance with practice procedures including appropriate coding as agreed in the practice.
• Maintain administrative records in relation to GMS contract, enhanced services contracts and QOF including coding, data cleansing and maintenance of registers.
• Work in line with agreed practice procedures and protocols.
• Contribute to all practice management, administrative, clinical, planning and educational meetings.
• Be available for informal contact with team members, especially other GPs.
• Work with the Partners to manage workload and availability while ensuring quality care and supporting colleagues.
• Work constructively and supportively with the practice’s management team, including adhering to partnership decisions/agreements and using established decision‑making processes to raise issues.
• Identify and utilise best practice through clinical guidelines and audit.
• Contribute actively to change and development processes in the practice, including those processes which are in partnership with other organisations.
• Take responsibility for clinical and management areas as agreed with the Partnership, including delegated responsibility for specific areas of the QOF.
• Prepare for, attend and contribute to practice decision‑making processes such as regular team and partnership meetings.
• Develop and maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with the whole practice team, giving explicit praise where it is merited.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining practice management systems including clinical governance, staff development and training, performance management, equality and diversity, complaints management, financial and resource management and IT.
• Support the management team by referring issues to members for action as necessary.
• Maintain confidentiality as appropriate on partnership or other sensitive matters.
• Take a share of clinical and administrative workload when covering for any absences (planned and unplanned).
• Take on any role as required in a crisis, in a flexible manner.
• Prepare for and complete the annual external appraisal system.
• Prepare for and complete the revalidation process.
• Take part in the practice’s in‑house appraisal scheme.
• Undertake training that meets personal, statutory and practice learning needs.
• Participate in, and contribute to, learning activities such as significant event reviews, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations.
• Contribute to delivering teaching for doctors in training in the practice and other health professionals in training.

Person Specification – Knowledge and skills

• Provide medical services for the practice population to a high standard, including day‑to‑day activities such as surgery consultations, telephone advice, telephone consultations and home visits, and appropriate administration to ensure accurate records, patient continuity and quality of care.
• Comply with the requirements of the practice’s GMS contract, Enhanced Services contracts, educational/training delivery contracts and private contracts.
• Contribute to decision‑making and management in the practice in order to develop services, ensure quality of care and maximise income.
• Adhere to the principles of good medical practice.
• Familiarisation with Emis Web, DOCMAN and ICE.
• Basic IT skills.

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.