Salaried GP: 5-8 sessions in Tamworth

Hollies Medical Practice has an opportunity available for a GP to join our existing team. The Hollies is a friendly, high achieving practice based on the edge of Tamworth town centre and provides care to approximately 15,500 patients. As part of the Mercian Network, we are a forward thinking practice and are keen to embrace new methods of working, for the benefit of our staff and patients.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for providing a high quality of care to our practice population by delivering health care in a safe and responsible manner.
• The postholder will adhere to the GMC standards for good medical practice and maintain a positive working relationship with the practice and wider team, acting with integrity and complete confidentiality at all times, as well as treating all patients and staff with dignity, respect and honesty.
• Provide consultations to patients at the practice by taking histories, examination, investigations, including diagnostic tests.
• Treating patients and prescribing appropriate medication.
• Referring patients or providing advice, as appropriate.
• Management of long term conditions.
• Conducting consultations via telephone, video consultation and in person and recording notes in an accurate and timely manner on the practice's clinical system.
• Providing clinical advice and support to other clinical staff and respond to queries from the administrative teams.
• Attend and participate in regular practice and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients.
• Participate in clinical audits within the practice.
• Carrying out home visits when required.
• Reviewing and acting on correspondence relating to patients.
• The postholder will be expected to undertake all duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within a primary care team.

About us

If you join us at the practice, you will:

• Be part of our supportive team.
• The Hollies is a well-established training practice and we support GP registrars from the Burton VTS and medical students from Keele University.
• Join a team that is trusted by their patients. 95% of respondents to the friends and family have rated the practice as good/very good since April 2025 and in the last national GP survey 86% of patients who responded described their overall experience of the Hollies as good, which was above the national average of 75%.

Job responsibilities

• Provide consultations to patients at the practice by taking histories, examination, investigations, including diagnostic tests.
• Treating patients and prescribing appropriate medication.
• Referring patients or providing advice, as appropriate.
• Management of long term conditions.
• Conducting consultations via telephone, video consultation and in person.
• Recording notes of consultations in an accurate and timely manner on the practice's clinical system.
• Providing clinical advice and support to other clinical staff and respond to queries from the administrative teams.
• Attend and participate in regular practice and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients.
• Participate in clinical audits within the practice.
• Contribute to the development of protocols and clinical standards within the practice.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the practice, including identifying opportunities for service development.
• Carrying out home visits when required.
• Reviewing and acting on correspondence relating to patients.
• Produce reports for non NHS purposes, such as insurance reports and medical (Partners only).
• The postholder will be expected to undertake all duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within a primary care team.

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.
• To attend local protected learning time events.

Responsibilities outside the organisation

• To engage with events and learning organised by organisations related to health care development in the locality and in particular the Mercian PCN and the Staffordshire CCG.
• Participate in the review of significant events and complaints to encourage learning.

Person Specification

• Qualifications: GMC registration, Performers list registration, Full UK driving licence.
• Experience: Clinical knowledge and skills, Excellent written and oral communication, IT skills, An understanding of QOF and clinical audit, 2 years working in primary care, Motivated, problem solver, Punctual and committed, Flexibility to work outside core hours.
• 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.

£12,280.13 a session. Pay amount based on per session per year.