Salaried GP in High Wycombe

We are currently seeking a dedicated and motivated Salaried General Practitioner (GP) to join the friendly and forward-thinking team at Chiltern House Medical Centre, based in High Wycombe. This position is for 6 clinical sessions per week, Monday to Friday, and includes a share of on-call duties. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work within a supportive, multidisciplinary team that includes nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacists, paramedics, and other allied health professionals.

Chiltern House Medical Centre is committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and provides an excellent environment for GPs who value collaboration, innovation, and making a meaningful difference within a practice focused on continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

The Salaried GP will be responsible for delivering high-quality primary care services to patients, including conducting face-to-face and telephone consultations, managing long-term conditions, handling acute presentations, and carrying out clinical administration such as prescriptions, referrals, and test result reviews. The role also includes participation in on-call duties, supporting clinical audits, contributing to practice development, and collaborating with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure seamless, patient-centred care. Home visits may be required on occasion, although these are typically supported by the practice's paramedic team.

About us

Chiltern House Medical Centre is a well-established NHS primary care practice located in High Wycombe. The surgery provides a comprehensive range of primary healthcare services focused on promoting patient wellbeing, preventing illness, and managing long-term conditions. The practice is supported by a multidisciplinary team that includes GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals, working collaboratively to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Chiltern House Medical Centre places a strong emphasis on continuity of care, patient confidentiality, and ongoing service improvement.

The surgery is part of the local Primary Care Network (PCN), enabling close collaboration and shared resources with neighbouring practices to enhance patient outcomes. Patient feedback is actively encouraged through compliments, suggestions, and complaints, supporting the practice's commitment to continuous improvement and excellent service delivery.

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, well-women and well man clinics 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.
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patient's health.
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients.
• Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing, contraception etc.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure read codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
• Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required.
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance.
• Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.).

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.
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA).
• Drive the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising with external agencies and professional organisations as required.
• Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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 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): 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. 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 processes. 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:

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 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 one's 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 recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will: Communicate effectively with other team members. Communicate effectively with patients and carers. Recognise people's 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

• Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a license to practise.
• Inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List.
• 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.