Senior Clinical Lead Gp

We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward‑thinking Senior Lead GP to join Newhaven Medical Practice, part of Sussex Primary Care. This is an exciting opportunity to join our brand new surgery operating from a modern purpose‑built premises while helping shape the future of patient care within a supportive multidisciplinary team. As part of Sussex Primary Care, you will work within a collaborative organisation committed to innovation, service improvement and excellent clinical outcomes. The Senior Lead GP plays a pivotal role in ensuring the service we provide is safe, that staff are well supervised, and the service continues to improve the quality of care for patients. If you are passionate about delivering excellent healthcare, and want to be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and patient‑centred care, then we want to hear from you!

Portfolio Opportunity

Alongside your clinical sessions, there may be an opportunity to undertake a portfolio role supporting Unplanned Care across Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, subject to organisational requirements.

Main duties of the job

• MRCGP qualification.
• GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Inclusion on the NHS National Performers List.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and decision‑making skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• A passion for improving patient care.
• An interest in clinical leadership, service transformation and multidisciplinary working.
• Collaborate with Practice Management, PCNs, and SPC leads to drive service improvement and staff development.
• Oversee clinical quality and safety, ensuring best practice through NICE implementation, significant event reviews, and compliance with CQC standards.
• Coordinate practice education and supervision, ensuring clinical staff remain up to date with policy and guideline changes.
• Provide supervision for GPs and non‑medical prescribers in line with SPCs Clinical Leadership Model.

About us

Sussex Primary Care run a number of GP Practices across Sussex providing excellent primary care in the heart of the community. We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs.

Clinical Leadership

• Provide visible clinical leadership.
• Be a point of contact for practice staff who need support and guidance over quality and safety concerns.
• Develop clinical governance strategies, systems and processes and ensure the active participation by all medical staff.
• Work with practice management to lead the wider practice team including regular attendance at practice meetings.
• Support career development of clinical staff.
• Build relationships with SPC Education Lead, Senior GP leads and ACP clinical leads from other SPC Practices and share learning and good practice.
• Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future, bringing the quality and safety concerns to the fore and ensuring these are balanced with organisational and financial concerns.
• Develop and maintain active working relationships with PCNs.
• Sign off and implement any additional policies/procedures as required.
• Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF/LCS and IIF.
• Attend quality assurance meetings and education meetings with other senior clinical lead GPs and with Medical Director for quality assurance purposes and agree to work in line with SPC Clinical Governance structure.
• Work collaboratively with practice management operational team and ACP clinical lead as practice executive team.

Clinical Quality/Safety

• Be responsible for taking an overview of the clinical functions in your SPC GP practice in terms of service quality and safety.
• Ensure that the systems exist to embed best clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record keeping etc.).
• Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Significant Event reviews and complaints, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice.
• Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness.
• Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service (e.g., record keeping, national and local safety alerts).
• Take the overall lead for arranging practice education meetings and ensuring that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy.
• Be the Caldicott Guardian for your SPC Practice.
• Be the lead clinician for ensuring that all areas of clinical leadership (see SPC Clinical Leadership Model) are covered within the practice.

Supervision

• You will be responsible for delivering peer‑based support across the practice team and be responsible for arranging the group supervision of practice based non‑medical prescribers alongside the ACP Clinical Lead.
• Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003.
• 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.
• Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register.
• Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi‑agency teams.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to recognise own limitations and act upon them appropriately.
• Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis.
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality.
• Ability to work within the changing structures of the NHS and work to the requirements of other regulatory bodies.
• Excellent communicator.
• Work in line with practice systems and processes.

Experience Essential

• 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).
• Clinical Governance.
• Primary care prevention and screening services.
• Self‑audit and reflection.
• Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork.
• Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure.
• Computer literacy.
• Adaptability to change.

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.