Salaried GP & Medical Lead - Gordon Street Medical Centre in Chester

A leadership role with purpose, support and real influence. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated GP to step into a role where your clinical expertise and leadership will genuinely shape patient care. You will join a supportive, values driven organisation that invests in its clinicians, offers protected leadership time and provides the stability of one of the North West's most trusted not for profit healthcare providers.

Gordon Street Medical Centre is a friendly, close knit practice caring for over 4,000 patients in a diverse and multi cultural community. Part of gtd healthcare, a values driven, not for profit organisation and one of the North West's largest NHS commissioned providers of Primary and Urgent Care. With a £49m turnover and a strong reputation for quality, we reinvest every surplus back into patient care, staff development and service improvement.

As a teaching and learning practice, we support Trainee ACPs, Mental Health Student Nurses and learners across primary care. You will be joining a supportive team with experienced leadership, a full nursing complement and excellent administrative support. The hours of work for this role are 27 hours per week, Monday to Friday. This is a permanent post and includes 4 hours of protected non-patient leadership time.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a motivated, compassionate GP who values teamwork, high quality care and continuous improvement. You will be committed to supporting colleagues, contributing to leadership activity and making a positive difference to the local community. You will contribute to clinical quality, support colleagues and help shape the future direction of the practice. Our patient population presents a wide range of clinical needs, including high levels of deprivation and multi morbidity, offering a varied and meaningful workload.

As a Medical Lead, you will work closely with the leadership group of clinicians to drive improvement across Primary Care. You will also be involved in decision-making at the Primary Care Network level.

What We Offer

• Supportive leadership from an experienced Practice Manager and Medical Lead
• Full nursing team and dedicated administrative support
• Well established systems and a collaborative team culture
• Access to gtd healthcare's in house academy for ongoing development
• Opportunities to develop special interests and leadership skills
• A not for profit organisation focused on quality, not targets
• Excellent motorway links for an easy commute

Benefits package

• Paid professional indemnity cover
• One week study leave per year pro rata
• Opportunities for protected medical leadership time
• Opportunities for portfolio working across primary and urgent care, in or out of hours
• Further development e.g. GP trainer, fellowship schemes, minor surgery and other specialist courses
• Real living wage employer
• Access to Stream, which provides flexible and on-demand access to stream your pay during the month, in real-time, when picking-up extra shifts
• Salary sacrifice car benefit scheme
• 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service
• Flexible pension benefits including NHS pension scheme
• Flexible working hours and policies
• Family friendly and carer policies
• Opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards
• Access to gtd healthcare's wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance programme
• Opportunity to become a part of an employee owned organisation
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eyesight vouchers
• NHS staff discounts e.g. Blue Light Card

Job responsibilities

• Provide high quality and current evidence based medical care to the patients of the Medical Practice and, where necessary and relevant, patients from other gtd healthcare managed services.
• Provide all GP services required as part of the GMS Contract held between gtd healthcare and commissioners.
• Undertake all necessary and relevant paperwork associated with the provision of medical services.
• Operate as part of a wider networked clinical team with partner practices for peer development, peer support and provision of relevant services.
• Undertake surgeries during extended hours in accordance with the access needs of the practice population and the contractual obligation of the practice.
• Provide support to other clinical professionals within the practice, e.g. Advanced Nurse Practitioner, practice nurses.

Clinical and service development

• Support the achievement of QOF targets, taking a lead on a specific clinical area where appropriate.
• Actively participate in the development of services in the practices that meet the needs of the practices patient population and maximise the opportunities of new enhanced services.
• Work as an integral member of the practice team, contributing to the efficient and effective running of the practice.
• Support, where necessary, the implementation of change within the practice.
• Undertake clinical audits as required.
• Participate in individual and practice reviews as a part of incident or complaints management process.

Development and training

• Participate in an ongoing personal and professional development programme including annual appraisal and supervision.
• Ensure that mandatory training is completed within agreed timescales.
• Where appropriate, undertake the North West Deanery basic trainers course and work with the practice and management teams to either enable practice training status to be achieved or maintain training status.
• Support the development of gtd healthcare becoming a beacon training organisation.

Corporate responsibilities

• As an employee of gtd healthcare comply with all corporate and clinical policies and protocols.
• Ensure that mandatory training is complete and updated within the appropriate timescales.
• Where appropriate, engage in the management and resolution of complaints and incidents and significant events.

Person Specification

Experience

• Essential: In practice as a General Practitioner/ locum practitioner. Commitment to and experience of 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).
• Desirable: Experience of supporting service change. Experience of team leadership.

Qualifications

• Essential: A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 1 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003. Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983. Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT). Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register. Accredited as a member of the Royal College Of General Practitioners (MRCGP) or have 5 years experience as a full time GP with a demonstrable commitment to quality practice.
• Desirable: GP Trainer.

Skills and Attributes

• Essential: Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population. Commitment to personal and professional development. Commitment to education and training. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal skills. Strong leadership skills. Excellent record keeping skills. Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care. Imaginative approach to problem solving and provision of services.
• Desirable: Provision of enhanced services, e.g. minor surgery or family planning.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.