Salaried GP in Mount Pleasant

Quayside Medical Practice is a well-established Teaching practice, providing care to a patient list size of 12,000. We are a stable partnership of 7 GP Partners with 4 Salaried GPs and a committed team of clinical and non-clinical staff. We are fully sighted on the challenges faced by all healthcare colleagues and passionately believe that it is our responsibility to provide a supportive and caring working environment for all members of our multi-disciplinary team. We have developed our team innovatively over the years to ensure that our GPs are fully supported in their role by a highly skilled nursing team and a well-trained administrative team. We enable all colleagues to further their professional development and offer an embedded cycle of multi-disciplinary meetings. Our GPs have the opportunity to meet together every day over lunch to share best practice, receive peer support or simply socialise. We are keen to increase the number of clinical sessions we offer through pro-active recruitment and to provide more protected administrative time within core hours for all of our GPs.

Main duties of the job

The partners aim to consistently provide the best possible quality of care for their patients by ensuring that services are designed to meet patients' needs and improve their health outcomes. This is achieved through supportive team working with high levels of communication and mutual respect. Our whole team ethos is considered integral to the long-term stability of the practice and continuous improvement in service to our patients. Any new member to the team would be expected to embrace these strengths and contribute to the development of the practice as it responds to the changing demands of primary care.

About us

Located in Newhaven, we are very close to Brighton and Lewes. Newhaven's town centre is benefitting from investment and renewal, at the heart of which sits our new premises which we are expecting to relocate to in the Summer of 2026. Our catchment area covers the coastal strip from Telscombe Cliffs to Newhaven and surrounding villages. The practice is comprised of a dedicated team of doctors, nurses, allied health and administrative professionals who are committed to providing the highest standard of care within a friendly, family-centred environment.

Job responsibilities

• Provide face to face consultations, telephone consultations and queries, video consultations, triaging, urgent care, home visits, prescribing (including checking and authorising repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries), patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations on behalf of the practice as well as referral letters and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner.
• Provide health promotion and advice, signposting patients to appropriate services to maximise their health and social functioning and their ability to self-manage their care.
• Be constantly mindful of the need for the provision of both personalised care and population health, including reducing health inequalities and ensure that these are reflected in daily practice.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting patients, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation or external organisations.
• Assess the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems taking appropriate action as necessary.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness taking appropriate action as necessary.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current chronic disease management protocols and care pathways, develop care plans for health-related illnesses and share these across the multi-disciplinary team, in line with patient need and good information governance.
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards using EMIS Web and associated technologies.
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• Prescribe in accordance with locally agreed or nationally agreed prescribing formulary.
• Work in accordance with all relevant clinical guidelines, pathways and protocols, including agreed standard data entry processes.
• The post holder may have tasks or responsibilities delegated to them, appropriate to their level of competence. They may also be expected to delegate tasks or responsibilities to other colleagues, as appropriate.

Person Specification

• Experience diagnosing and managing complex multiple diseases and problems in the same patient in physical, psychological and social terms.
• Adult Safeguarding and Child Protection.
• Delivering preventative, acute, continuing and end of life care.
• Clinical audit and quality improvement.
• Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.

Knowledge and Skills

• Broad knowledge of Primary Care and fit with the wider healthcare community.
• Broad knowledge of the role of governance in ensuring high quality care and safe practice.
• An understanding of practice operation.
• Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and handle uncertainty, using judgement to refer patients appropriately.
• Ability to work successfully in a multi-disciplinary team and across organisational boundaries as well as autonomously.
• Ability to appraise own performance, demonstrate insight and act on feedback.
• An enterprising and dynamic approach to developing and diversifying the practice.
• Positive approach to appraisal and job planning.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage own time and workload.
• Ability to develop and maintain a specialist clinical interest in the overall context of the practice and its work.

Qualifications

• GMC Registration and licence to practice.
• Entry on GP Performers List.
• MRCGP.
• 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.