Newly Qualified Salaried GP (ARRS) inSkelmersdale inSkelmersdale PUBLISHED 21 OCT 2024

Depending on experience £10,000 to £10,500 per session  FIXED TERM 
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified GP (within 2 years of qualification) to join our team as a PCN General Medical Practitioner. Initially on a fixed term contract until the end of March 2025, with a view to extend (funding dependent).

You would be required to work 6-8 sessions per week across the three PCNs in West Lancashire - Northern Parishes, Ormskirk and Skelmersdale.

If its less than two years since you qualified and you have not been substantively employed within a GP practice since that date, this fulfilling role could be for you.

Closing date 3rd November 2024. We can recruit with an immediate start date and are keen to interview as soon as possible. If these vacancies attract sufficient interest, it may be necessary to close the application process early.


If you are interested, we suggest you apply as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

You will be working as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the provision of medical services to the West Lancashire population, delivering an excellent standard of clinical care whilst complying with the GMS contract.

Furthermore, the post-holder will adhere to the GMC standards for good medical practice, contributing to the effective management of the PCN, leading by example, maintaining a positive, collaborative working relationship with the multidisciplinary team.

This role ensures high standards of patient care, promoting health, and improving outcomes through collaboration, innovation, and ongoing development.


Primary Responsibilities:

  • Patient Consultations
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Prevention Care & Screening
  • Referral & Coordination of Care
  • Health Promotion
  • Public Health & Community Engagement
  • Quality Improvement

To meet the criteria for consideration, you must be a practising GP & hold the following: -

  • Qualified GP - within 2 years of registration
  • MRCGP
  • Full GMC registration
  • Performers List registration
  • Clear Enhanced DBS check

About us

  • Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the PCN or practice
  • Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
  • Cover all the clinical management of the patients as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
  • Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE
  • Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
  • Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Participate in clinical audits, and learning event analyses and practice meetings
  • Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
  • Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance)
  • Work with and provide support for other members of the PCN or practice team
  • Play a lead role in the PCN or practice, achieving agreed and other key performance indicator targets

We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified GP (within 2 years of qualification) to join our team as a PCN General Medical Practitioner. Initially on a fixed term contract until the end of March 2025, with a view to extend (funding dependent).

You would be required to work 6-8 sessions per week across the three PCNs in West Lancashire - Northern Parishes, Ormskirk and Skelmersdale.

If its less than two years since you qualified and you have not been substantively employed within a GP practice since that date, this fulfilling role could be for you.

Closing date 3rd November 2024. We can recruit with an immediate start date and are keen to interview as soon as possible. If these vacancies attract sufficient interest, it may be necessary to close the application process early.


If you are interested, we suggest you apply as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

You will be working as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the provision of medical services to the West Lancashire population, delivering an excellent standard of clinical care whilst complying with the GMS contract.

Furthermore, the post-holder will adhere to the GMC standards for good medical practice, contributing to the effective management of the PCN, leading by example, maintaining a positive, collaborative working relationship with the multidisciplinary team.

This role ensures high standards of patient care, promoting health, and improving outcomes through collaboration, innovation, and ongoing development.


Primary Responsibilities:

  • Patient Consultations
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Prevention Care & Screening
  • Referral & Coordination of Care
  • Health Promotion
  • Public Health & Community Engagement
  • Quality Improvement

To meet the criteria for consideration, you must be a practising GP & hold the following: -

  • Qualified GP - within 2 years of registration
  • MRCGP
  • Full GMC registration
  • Performers List registration
  • Clear Enhanced DBS check

About us

  • Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the PCN or practice
  • Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
  • Cover all the clinical management of the patients as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
  • Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE
  • Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
  • Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Participate in clinical audits, and learning event analyses and practice meetings
  • Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
  • Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance)
  • Work with and provide support for other members of the PCN or practice team
  • Play a lead role in the PCN or practice, achieving agreed and other key performance indicator targets

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