GP Clinical Lead

Higham Hill Medical Centre; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare practice in Greater London is seeking a Clinical Lead GP to provide leadership in delivering high-quality patient care. This role involves mentoring clinical staff, overseeing clinical governance, and making strategic decisions in a multidisciplinary environment. Candidates should be an experienced GP with qualifications such as MRCGP and a passion for improving patient outcomes. Competitive salary based on experience.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with MRCGP and trainer qualifications.
• Experience in primary care and GP practice.
• Skills in triaging, care home experience, and delivering education.

Responsibilities

• Drive clinical leadership for high-quality patient care.
• Oversee clinical governance and ensure safety.
• Manage clinical staff effectively.
• Make decisions on complex patient care.
• Lead clinical audits for quality improvement.
• Conduct training and education for staff.
• Support service development based on patient needs.
• Identify and implement quality improvement initiatives.
• Engage patients to enhance service delivery.
• Collaborate within the PCN for integrated care.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Mentorship

Team Management

Clinical Governance

Quality Improvement

Patient Engagement

Education

Qualified GP

MRCGP

GP Trainer

Job description

Overview

The Clinical Lead GP plays a pivotal role in shaping, leading, and delivering high-quality clinical care within general practice. This position combines frontline clinical work with strategic leadership, ensuring the practice maintains excellence in patient outcomes, safety, and service innovation.

As a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, the Clinical Lead GP provides oversight, mentorship, and guidance to colleagues, including salaried GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals. They act as a key link between the practice, the Primary Care Network (PCN), local ICB, and community services, contributing to integrated care and new models of delivery.

The role involves:

• Clinical Leadership: Driving best practice, governance, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Strategic Input: Supporting the Practice Manager and Partners in planning, workforce development, and implementation of health priorities.
• Mentorship & Education: Providing supervision and professional development for clinicians and trainees.
• Innovation & Improvement: Leading audits, reviewing policies, and enhancing patient experience and efficiency.
• Representation: Acting as a clinical representative in PCN meetings, multidisciplinary forums, and local collaborations.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced GP who is passionate about leadership, collaboration, and shaping the future of primary care.

Main duties of the job

1. Clinical Leadership
2. Clinical Governance
3. Team Management
4. Clinical Decision Making
5. Clinical Audit
6. Education and Training
7. Service Development
8. Quality Improvement
9. Patient Engagement
10. Collaboration

About us

Higham Medical Centre is a practice based in a purpose-built building in Walthamstow, North East London (NEL). The practice serves 7,500 patients. The practice employs a wide range of GPs and AHPs as part of a diverse multidisciplinary workforce skills mix.

The organisation prioritises career development and staff wellbeing for its 50+ staff members and is committed to supporting the education, training and development of its workforce to ensure sustainability in the local workforce. Having strong visible leadership is a key priority for Higham Medical Centre and the successful candidate will be involved in shaping this future vision with the opportunity to grow as the organisation grows, taking on more leadership responsibilities.

Job responsibilities

1. Clinical Leadership: Provide clinical leadership within the practice, ensuring high-quality patient care and adherence to clinical guidelines, supported by delivery of several clinical meetings.

Activity: In collaboration with clinical partners and administrative teams, chair practice and PCN MDT meetings; Practice Clinical Meeting (frequency dependent on site), Practice Complex Care ICM MDT (monthly), Practice palliative care MDT (quarterly), Safeguarding MDT (quarterly), PCN Proactive Care MDT (monthly) and PCN High Intensity User MDT (monthly). Ensure minute taking is consistent, sign off minutes, and maintain an action log where appropriate. Disseminate best practice (e.g., NICE updates, drug safety alerts, complaints, deaths, new cancers, safeguarding cases, NHSE SOPs) as standing agenda items in the schedule of clinical meetings. Coordinate with other clinical leads across sites to enable peer support and ensure consistency of best practice. Report through the Site-specific Partner into the Medical Director and Executive Board.

2. Clinical Governance: Oversee clinical governance activities, including monitoring and improving clinical standards, patient safety, and quality of care. Provide support and leadership with CQC inspections.

Activity: Be the named Safeguarding Lead of the Practice, ensuring delivery and adherence to the organisation-wide Safeguarding policy and reporting into the Organisational Safeguarding Lead. Work with the Safeguarding Administrative lead to ensure timely correspondence with external stakeholders and dissemination of learning. Support Senior Management Team and Lead Pharmacist in reporting to the Executive Board on key clinical KPIs and performance activity (e.g., delivery of QOF and local LESs). Support Lead Pharmacist with undertaking of cyclic audits to support CQC compliance. Undertake quarterly record-keeping audits based on NHSE guidance of GPs and Locum GPs and feedback areas of concern or improvement to the SMT Partner.

3. Team Management: Manage and support clinical staff, especially GPs but also other Allied Health Professionals and learners, to ensure efficient and effective practice operations.

Activity: Act as a key point of contact for clinicians within the practice to escalate concerns or queries about clinical processes, SOPs or protocols. Support in unblocking barriers in inefficient clinical service delivery and escalate to site Clinical Partner if further support or resources are needed.

4. Clinical Decision-Making: Participate in clinical decision-making, including complex patient cases, referrals, and treatment plans.

Activity: Undertake regular patient-facing clinical sessions as well as Duty Triage sessions to ensure an authentic understanding of service delivery. Provide support and supervision in daily clinical huddles as well as directly supporting clinical meetings and dissemination of best practice, clinical protocols and SOPs to the wider multidisciplinary clinical team including learners.

5. Clinical Audit: Lead or participate in clinical audits to assess and improve the quality of care provided within the practice.

Activity: Oversee a general audit program within the practice for CQC compliance (2 cyclic audits) and delegation of other relevant audits to the wider team including learners.

6. Education and Training: Provide guidance, training, and professional development opportunities for clinical staff to keep them updated with best practices and guidelines.

Activity: Support education and training for learners within the practice and contribute to maintaining high-quality educational standards through huddles and clinical meetings. Encourage attendance and engagement in local PLT events and feedback key areas of best practice or updates to local service delivery pathways through meetings and via MS Teams.

7. Service Development: Contribute to the development and implementation of new services and initiatives within the practice to meet patient needs.

Activity: Support the practice with implementation of new clinical service delivery models in collaboration with patients if necessary and help identify gaps in service provision that may warrant service redesign, supported through a QI methodology approach.

8. Quality Improvement: Identify areas for quality improvement, implement changes, and monitor outcomes to enhance patient care.

Activity: Support the senior management team to deliver practice-based QI programs that require clinical oversight and support writing up and sharing initiatives with the wider team, organisation and system partners.

9. Patient Engagement: Collaborate with patients and gather feedback to ensure that clinical services are patient-centred and responsive to their needs.

Activity: Support partnership and engagement with PPG through Administrative lead and support from Clinical Partners to deliver change ideas. Support practice-based service redesign based on GPPS, NHS choices, Google reviews, FFT and other patient feedback modalities.

10. Collaboration: Work with PCN, Federation and other providers representing the practice to facilitate integrated care and promote better health outcomes for patients.

Activity: Work alongside other clinical leads within the organisation to ensure consistency of care and service delivery in relation to PCN-based clinical contracts supported by SMT, PCN manager and Clinical Partners.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• GP Trainer
• Triaging experience
• Care Home experience

Experience

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP practice
• Experience of delivering education and training
• Experience of triaging

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.

Depending on experience Salary on request