Salaried GP in Gateshead NE10 8PH inGateshead NE10 8PH PUBLISHED WED 24 SEP 2025 Jump to job information section

Job description

Job responsibilities

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
registered and temporary patients.

Clinical
Responsibilities:

• In
  accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will
  make him/her-self 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 and correspondence in a timely fashion


• 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


• In
  consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease
  management protocols, developing care plans for health


• 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


• Collecting
  data for audit purposes


• 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.

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


• 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.


• Be
  involved in supervising/teaching medical students/GP registrars within the
  practice.

Confidentiality:

• 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.

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will
assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and
security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the
  workplace according to Practice guidelines


• Identifying the risks involved in work
  activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those
  risks


• Making effective use of training to update
  knowledge and skills


• Using appropriate infection control
  procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from
  hazards


• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and
rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting
  in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting
  them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies,
  and current legislation


• Respecting
  the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues


• Behaving
  in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental
  and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional
Development:

In
addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses
and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development
requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training
programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training
to include:

• Participation
  in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility
  for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development


• Taking
  responsibility for own development, learning and performance and
  demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar
  work.

Quality:

The
post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert
  other team members to issues of quality and risk


• Assess
  own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly
  or under supervision


• Contribute
  to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities
  and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams
  performance


• Work
  effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs


• Effectively
  manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The
post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within
the team and will strive to:

• Communicate
  effectively with other team members


• Communicate
  effectively with patients and carers


• Recognize
  peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond
  accordingly.

Contribution to the
Implementation of Services:

The
post-holder will:

• Apply Practice
  policies, standards and guidance


• Discuss
  with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines
  will affect own work


• Participate
  in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Clinical Experience



• Have worked in general practice/community medicine



• Experience of multidiscipline team working



• IT Experience



• Experience of GP clinical system EMIS Web



• Experience of Microsoft office

Desirable

• Teaching - be involved in the teaching/supervising of medical students and GP registrars in the practice



• Experience of delivering QOF



• Leadership experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully Qualified GP



• MRCGP



• GMC full registration



• Member of defence union (MPS/MDU)



• Currently on a performers list



• Full driving licence

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Longrigg Medical Centre

Address

2 Longrigg

Leam Lane Estate

Gateshead

Tyne and Wear

NE10 8PH

Employer's website

https://jobsincare.com/job/jnsjuExKebl (Opens in a new tab)