General Practitioner (Self-Employed)

Lcw Ucc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 50,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible sessions

Competitive sessional rates

Digital-first care environments

Multidisciplinary teams

Job summary

LCW UCC is seeking experienced General Practitioners to provide urgent care services as self-employed contractors across North Central London UTC sites, including Royal Free and Barnet Hospital. Sessions are flexible and can be selected to fit availability and interests, with a portfolio career approach.

Public healthcare experience in urgent care is essential, with self-employment arrangements and responsibility for own taxes and NI. Part-time opportunities are available across London locations.

Qualifications

• Essential: Full GMC registration and licence to practise.
• Inclusion on a GP Performers List.
• Appropriate professional indemnity arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent care services within UTC clinics.
• Exercise professional judgement and autonomy in service delivery.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure patient care.

Skills

Urgent care

Communication

Independent practice

Education

Full GMC registration

GP Performers List

Indemnity arrangements

Job description

General Practitioner (Self-Employed) LCW UCC•London, United Kingdom

Job summary

LCW is seeking experienced, self-employed General Practitioners to provide clinical services within Urgent Treatment Centres across North Central London at the Royal Free and Barnet Hospital sites.
This opportunity is suited to independent GPs looking to undertake urgent care sessions as part of a portfolio career, with the flexibility to accept sessions that fit their availability and professional interests.

Main duties of the job

About the Opportunity

GPs engaged by LCW provide urgent care services to a diverse patient population presenting with a broad range of conditions appropriate to an Urgent Treatment Centre setting.
Practitioners are expected to exercise their own professional judgement and clinical autonomy in the delivery of services, working collaboratively alongside multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
Available sessions are offered across multiple UTC locations, allowing clinicians the flexibility to choose where and when they wish to provide services, subject to service requirements.

About us

About LCW

London Central and West, LCW, is a clinically led social enterprise providing integrated urgent and primary care services across London. Originating from a GP cooperative established in 1994, LCW now delivers services to a resident population of approximately 4.6 million people.
Our multidisciplinary teams include GPs, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and healthcare professionals working together to provide high-quality patient care across a range of NHS services.

Why Work With LCW

• Flexible sessional opportunities across multiple UTC locations.
• Freedom to choose sessions that align with your availability.
• Exposure to a varied and interesting urgent care caseload.
• Opportunity to work within established multidisciplinary clinical environments.
• Competitive sessional rates.
• Access to digital-first healthcare environments and innovative urgent care models.
• Opportunities to support services across some of London's busiest and most diverse urgent care settings.

Job responsibilities

Session Availability

Sessions are managed through RotaMaster. Available shifts are regularly published, and clinicians may express interest in individual sessions or blocks of sessions, subject to service demand and mutual agreement.
There is no obligation for LCW to offer work, nor for clinicians to accept offered sessions.

Engagement Basis

This opportunity is offered on a self-employed contractor basis. Successful applicants will provide services as independent practitioners and will be responsible for their own tax and National Insurance arrangements.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant urgent care, UTC, out-of-hours or emergency medicine experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced urgent care environment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC registration and licence to practise.
• Inclusion on a GP Performers List.
• Appropriate professional indemnity arrangements.

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).

LCW UCC is an equal opportunities employer.

Part-time