GP Physician with Specialist Interest in Learning Disability

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Leeds is seeking a General Practitioner with a Specialist Interest in Learning Disability to support physical health services for a 3-month period. The role involves providing medical oversight, prescribing, and supporting complex service users. Competitive salary between £76,038 to £114,743 pro rata. The Trust offers excellent benefits including flexible working and career development opportunities.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working with service users with learning disabilities.
• Proven ability to work in different clinical settings.
• Evidence of knowledge in diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical oversight and support for service users in health respite services.
• Deliver medical consultancy across learning disability services as needed.
• Perform annual reviews of service users within respite care.

Skills

Experience as a GP

Working with service users with learning disabilities

Management of complex physical/mental illness

Knowledge of Leeds health and learning disability system

Job description

Go back Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

GP Physician with Specialist Interest in Learning Disability

The closing date is 01 October 2025

The Trust is seeking a General Practitioner Physician with Specialist Interest in Learning Disability to provide physical health support and prescribing to our health respite services for a 3 month period in the first instance.

Main duties of the job

Are you committed to providing high quality Service User care? WE need you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives

Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work

Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities

This post is 4 PAs, working with the Clinical Team Manager and Senior Nurses in the health respite service based at 2 and 3 Woodlands Square. This will involve working clinically to provide medical oversight and support of service users accessing respite with complex multiple impairments and challenging behaviour. Prescribing will be a key element of the role, working closely with the nursing team following pre-admission calls. The role involves annual reviews of service users within respite, and supporting the development of health respite, including the nursing team, to provide the best possible care for the service users in respite.

The role will also deliver some medical consultancy across other parts of the learning disability service as required.

Person Specification

• Experience as a GP

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with service users with a learning disability and learning disability services.

Clinical skills, knowledge, experience

• Proven ability to work effectively in different clinical settings required in the job
• Evidence of knowledge of diagnosis, treatment + management of complex physical/ mental illness associated with learning disabilities.

Clinical skills, knowledge, experience

• Knowledge and understanding of the Leeds health and learning disability 'system'.

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.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£76,038 to £114,743 a yearper annum pro rata