Health Care Support Assistants

Spectrum Community Health; Castleford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Castleford seeks a General Practitioner. In this role, you will deliver comprehensive clinical care to patients and make autonomous medical decisions. You will provide consultations, conduct home visits, and manage patient care alongside a dedicated clinical team. Applicants must have full GMC registration, be excellent patient-centered clinicians, and handle a varied caseload flexibly. This position offers the opportunity to work in a supportive environment focusing on quality care.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Welcome payment for some posts

Refer a friend scheme

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven ability to handle a busy primary care caseload.
• Experience in consultations, home visits, and managing patient queries.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality clinical care.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive clinical duties at Tieve Tara Medical Centre.
• Undertake surgery consultations and home visits as necessary.
• Make professional decisions regarding patient care and treatment.

Skills

Excellent patient care

Clinical decision making

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Full GMC Registration with license to practice

Entry on the GP Register

Job description

We are a small practice service c.5,200 patients located in the area of Airedale, Castleford. Our clinical team currently consists of 5 GPS, an in‑house Clinical Pharmacist, an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a lead Nurse, two experienced Practice Nurses, one Nurse Associate and a Health Care Support Assistants. The nursing team are highly qualified and provide general and specialist nursing services supported by a friendly and efficient administrative and management team.

We are part of a forward thinking and well-functioning Primary Care Network, Wakefield North PCN who provide a great visiting service and Enhanced Care Team as well as excellent access to Sonographers, Mental Health Practitioners and Pharmacist. In addition to this our organisation has a full infrastructure of support for the practice including finance, people and culture, nursing and quality, digital, IT and performance. The role will work as part of a wider clinical team responsible for the provision of medical services to the practice population, delivering excellent standard of clinical care whilst complying with the contract requirements working closely with the PCN. The postholders will adhere to the GMC standards for good medical practice, contributing to the effective management of the practice working with the organisation's Medical Director and maintaining a positive collaborative working relationship with subsequent GPs and the multidisciplinary team.

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team. Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!

Benefits

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them. We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide a comprehensive range of clinical duties at Tieve Tara Medical Centre within the Spectrum Community Healthcare CIC.
• To undertake surgery consultations, home visits where necessary, and telephone queries from patients and health care professionals.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self‑referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• To undertake on‑call duties as part of the Surgery on‑call rota, where agreed. This may include requesting that patients present at the surgery, telephone consultations, electronic consultations (PATCHS), home visits and triage.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over‑the‑counter medication on medication regimens, side‑effects and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self‑care. Support and manage health needs of patients presenting for family planning or sexual health consultations.
• Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with national and local guidelines.
• 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.
• 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).

We would expect our salaried GPs to be an integral part of our practice leading by example with high quality practice as well as being business‑minded with a deep commitment to our practice ethos.

You will be a GP with full GMC Registration with a licence to practise and entry on the GP Register and you will be included on a Medical Performers List (or eligible). We are looking for excellent patient‑centred clinicians with a proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care caseload and respond flexibly to workload fluctuations.