General Practitioner in London

Main area: GP Grade, Salaried GP

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 5.5 sessions per week (5 clinical sessions and a pro rata CPD session)

Job ref: 350-MED7720509

Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Ashworth hospital

Town: Maghull

Salary: £100,870-£114,743 pro rata dependant on experience

Closing: 18/03/2026 23:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

Job overview: This is a 5 clinical sessions per week job providing GP primary health care to secure psychiatric and learning disability patients across several hospitals within Secure division. This job also includes a pro rata CPD session weekly. Sites are Ashworth hospital (high secure), Rowan View (medium secure), Aspen Wood (LD unit), Hollins park (low secure), Rathbone (low secure).

Main duties of the job:

• Provide Health Care and ward based primary health care to high clinical standards to the patients of Secure division.
• Undertake comprehensive physical health care profile and provide on-going management of chronic problems, working closely with other physical healthcare staff.
• Attend Strategic/Clinical meetings to develop the service.
• Review/follow up actions/occurrences, attended to out of hours, by doctors on call.
• Maintain patients' clinical records.
• Providing physical health care into the challenging environment of secure psychiatric settings.
• Liaise and work closely with other members of the MDT.

Working for our organisation: Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.
• Responsible for the delivery of identified training.
• Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
• Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
• Ensure that team work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
• Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
• Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.
• Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
• Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
• Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.
• Ensure services are provided to a high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the identified needs of the service user.
• Comply with all clinical governance requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and organisational performance.
• Share responsibility for conducting appropriate and comprehensive clinical risk assessment and contribute to the implementation of relevant risk management strategies.
• Be responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures and guidance relating to medical practice and ensure clinically effective health interventions are provided.
• Establish appropriate monitoring systems to measure performance and effectiveness.

Person specification:

• Expert Practice GMC registered.
• Able to exercise a high degree of personal autonomy and critical judgement.
• Promotes best practice/clinical effectiveness.
• Vocational Training Certificate from JCPTGP.
• Registered with General Medical Council.
• MRCGP.
• Able to demonstrate experience working in GMS / PMS practices.
• Awareness of issues of diversity and legal framework within which care is delivered in high security.
• Has previous experience of service development/improvement.
• Experiences as SHO in Psychiatry (or other relevant experience).
• Leadership: Influences, effects and implements change.
• Facilitates clinical and professional development.
• Focuses on quality and development of the service.
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary working.
• Education and Development: Can identify and respond to learning needs at individual and team level.
• Able to contribute to the process of change and development.
• Portfolio reflects a career long learning experience.
• Has demonstratable links to under/post graduate training programmes.
• Continuing interest in and experience of working with wholly excluded groups.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or emailsensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website.