Salaried GP

The Manor Practice is a friendly, forward-thinking GP surgery in the heart of Leyton, serving a vibrant and diverse community. We are proud of our supportive team culture, strong clinical leadership, and commitment to high-quality, patient-centred care. With modern systems, excellent nursing and administrative support, and a genuine emphasis on work-life balance, we aim to make general practice both rewarding and sustainable.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Salaried GP who wants to feel valued, listened to, and professionally fulfilled. You will join a collaborative, welcoming team where your ideas matter, your development is encouraged, and your wellbeing is prioritised. If you are looking for a practice that combines clinical excellence with warmth, ambition, and community spirit, The Manor Practice is a place where you can truly thrive.

• Provide high-quality, safe and compassionate care to registered patients through face-to-face, telephone and digital consultations.
• Manage acute, chronic and complex conditions in line with best practice and local guidelines.
• Undertake routine GP responsibilities including prescriptions, referrals, results handling and clinical correspondence.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team working, contributing to shared decision-making and continuity of care.
• Support quality improvement, clinical governance and safeguarding processes.
• Contribute to a positive, supportive practice culture and ongoing service development.

The Manor Practice is a well-established, respected GP surgery at the heart of Leyton, serving a diverse, vibrant East London community of nearly 10,000 patients. Our team is our greatest strength - a close-knit group of GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, social prescribers, and an exceptional administrative team who genuinely support one another and work with shared purpose.

The atmosphere is warm, inclusive and professional. We value kindness, open communication and mutual respect, creating an environment where everyone feels heard and valued. Despite the pressures of modern general practice, we protect teamwork, laughter, and learning because we believe happy teams deliver the best care.

Our work ethic is grounded in high clinical standards, compassion, and continuous improvement. We embrace innovation, support professional development, and encourage new ideas. Whether you are newly qualified or highly experienced, you will find encouragement, mentorship and opportunities to grow.

Working at The Manor Practice means more than just a job. You will benefit from a supportive leadership team, realistic workloads, strong clinical support, and a genuine commitment to staff wellbeing. Most importantly, you will be part of a practice that cares deeply about its patients, its community, and its people.

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.

• In accordance with the Organisation's timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, test results and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Triaging requests made online.
• Oversight and management of care of patients in nursing homes and mental health sheltered accommodation.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Organisation 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.
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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 may 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.

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the Organisation's health & safety policy, the Organisation's health & safety manual, and the Organisation's 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.
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements.
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances).
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others.
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure.
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice.
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process.
• 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.
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager.
• 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 correcting 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 (minimum once annually).
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.

Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults.

Additional criteria:

• Basic IT skills.
• Holder of a driver's licence.

Qualifications:

• Medical Degree.
• Completion of Certificate of Training (CCT).

Experience:

• Experience dealing with residential & nursing home patients.
• Experience dealing with patients who have mental health issues.
• Understanding of local and national contracts (DES & LES).

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.