General Practitioner

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider in Greater London is looking for a General Practitioner to join their dynamic multidisciplinary team. This role involves assessing, diagnosing, and managing acutely unwell patients at home, contributing to service development, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Candidates must have full UK GMC registration and relevant experience in acute care. The position offers a competitive salary range of £76,038 to £114,743 per annum, commensurate with experience, with flexible working conditions.

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering acute care in the community.
• CCT as a General Practitioner with post-qualification experience.
• Proficiency with relevant IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage acutely unwell patients in their homes.
• Develop and review individualized care plans.
• Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in clinical governance activities.
• Support safe discharge and prevent hospital admissions.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Clinical Decision Making

Team Collaboration

Resilience

Education

Full UK GMC Registration

On the GMC GP Register

Acute and Emergency Care Courses

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

General Practitioner

The closing date is 09 February 2026

The post holder will act as a senior clinical decision maker, working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose and manage acutely unwell patients in the community, while contributing to service development, education, governance and quality improvement.

The @Home service delivers acute clinical care to patients in their own homes, aiming to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate faster discharges. The service offers a 2 hour Urgent Community Response (UCR), as well as same-day and next-day interventions.

Referrals are received from hospital wards and also colleagues in primary care, ambulance services, NHS 111, and other community-based health and social care providers. The care and interventions are provided by a multidisciplinary team including Doctors, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nursing Rehab Support Workers, Pharmacists, and Social workers. The team works collaboratively to create individualised care plans, delivering clinical assessments, IV medication administration, and management of acute exacerbation's of chronic illnesses. Remote monitoring is also provided within the service, allowing for early detection of deterioration and ongoing symptom management through the use of technology. The service also supports patients by addressing sudden declines in physical function, falls, or social support needs that may otherwise lead to hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

As work is community centred the post holder must be able to travel throughout Lambeth and Southwark boroughs.

• To assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients seen in their own homes
• Support multidisciplinary clinical decision-making
• To action test results appropriately and make necessary onward referrals
• To manage patients with a multi-disciplinary team approach
• To attend clinical meetings, including handover and multi-disciplinary meetings

Provide clinical support and advice to the multi-disciplinary team

Deal with urgent clinical queries or safeguarding issues

To provide oversite and support to resident medical staff.

All medical staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including quality improvement, clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management. They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their annual appraisal.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

The Integrated Local Services directorate provides a range of community and inpatient health services for adults within the communities of Lambeth and Southwark, with some services also provided in Lewisham and more widely across SEL. Our hospital-based inpatient and outpatient services provide care for adults from across the region.

The services provided by the directorate include Neighbourhood Nursing, Regional Specialist Rehabilitation and Reablement (bed and home based), Palliative and End of Life Care, Adults with Learning Disabilities services, Homeless and High Intensity User services, Refugee and Asylum Seeker services, Tobacco Dependence Treatment services, GSTT@Home, Pharmacy, and Site Administration services.

Job responsibilities

Act as a senior clinical decision maker within the Hospital @Home service

Assess, diagnose and manage acutely unwell patients in their own homes

Develop and review care plans, support safe discharge and prevent hospital admission

Provide clinical leadership, supervision and advice to the multidisciplinary team

Participate in MDT meetings, handovers and service governance activities

Manage investigations, referrals, escalation of care and safeguarding concerns

Contribute to quality improvement, audit, education and service development

Maintain professional standards including appraisal, revalidation and CPD

Work flexibly across community sites, including weekend working as required

*** Please be advised that this vacancy may close early should we receive a sufficient number of applications ***

Person Specification

Clinical Governance, Management and IT

• Knowledge of and involvement in Clinical Governance issues including incident reporting
• Proficiency with relevant IT systems, good keyboard skills

Risk and Audit

• Understand principles of audit and quality improvement and evidence of contribution to effective quality improvement work

Qualifications and Training

• Full UK GMC Registration and a licence to practice
• On the GMC GP Register
• On Medical National Performers List
• Acute and Emergency Care Courses

Clinical Experience

• CCT as a General Practitioner with post-qualification experience as a GP
• Experience of delivering acute care in the community
• Up-to-date on relevant national guidelines.
• Experience of working in an urgent care response or hospital at home service
• Experience of Remote Patient Monitoring
• Experience setting up clinical pathways

Knowledge and Skills

• Commensurate with a GP with moderate degree of experience
• Able to work independently to manage the whole spectrum of needs of the client need or refer accordingly
• Ability to collaborate and work with multidisciplinary teams to manage acute illness in the community setting

Research, teaching skills and experience

• Demonstrate an understanding of the application of evidence to practice in working in Hospital at Home services
• Demonstrate an understanding of the application of evidence to practice in working with a Interest in Hospital @Home services/Urgent care response / remote patient monitoring
• Defined track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of research ethics
• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff

Personal Qualities

• Communication: ability to communicate clearly and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade / negotiate, and ability to defuse heated situations
• Accountability: ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to see patients as people, empathy, understanding and listening skills.
• Resilience: Able to adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure
• Managing Understanding of their performance contribution to the success of the service

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£76,038 to £114,743 a yearper annum excl. LZ, pro rata if applicable