Salaried GP

Northumbria Group.; Cramlington; Remote; GBP 103,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive staff health and wellbeing

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension

Lease car and home electronics scheme

Extensive training programmes

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Salaried GP in an urgent and emergency care setting across NSECH and UTCs. The role is permanent, flexibly tabulated with 9 sessions weekly including evenings and weekends.

Salary £102,592–£116,377 per annum, with generous leave and pension, and extensive staff wellbeing support. You will work with NSECH Front Door Service and UTCs, providing high‑quality acute primary care and guidance to junior staff, while benefiting from

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration.
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent (JCPTGP/nMRCGP).
• Membership of a recognised defence union (MPS/MDU).
• Currently on a performers list and never been removed.
• DRCOG, DFFP/FFFP and DCH qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide acute primary care to walk-in patients or referrals via NHS 111.
• Support Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Practitioners and GP Registrars on shift.
• Join NSECH Front Door Service for Nurse Practitioner led streaming and fast assessment.
• Work flexibly across NSECH, UTCs and other sites with weekend/evening rotations.
• Participate in training, shadowing and ongoing workforce development.

Skills

GP clinical experience

Leadership and management

Teaching trainees

Clinical governance

GP IT systems

Lifelong learning

Education

GMC Registration

Vocational Training Certificate (JCPTGP/nMRCGP)

Membership of defence union (MPS/MDU)

On performers list

DRCOG

DFFP/FFFP

DCH

Job description

Main area Urgent and Emergency Care Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

9 sessions per week (Evening, weekends and out of hours) Job ref 319-8226141RW-ADD

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £102,592 - £116,377 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/10/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is… the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.

The post will work into the assessment and navigation service at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) supporting the Front Door Service 7 days per week and also into the Urgent Care Centers at Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside general Hospital. This will include weekend and evening work on a rotational basis.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date if a suitable number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

As a qualified General Practitioner (GP) your role is to provide acute primary care to patients who walk-in or are referred via NHS 111. This includes dealing with patients presenting with minor illness, more serious illness (needing an assessment and onward referral / transfer to secondary care) and minor injuries (training / support available).

You will also support the developing Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Clinical Practitioners (CPs) and GP Registrars in their assessment and management of primary care illness whilst on shift (part of an ongoing workforce development program).

There is also the opportunity to join the NSECH Front Door Service which provides Nurse Practitioner led streaming and rapid assessment of walk-in patients to NSECH (‘pre-ED’) and direction to the most appropriate service for their immediate health needs. Destination options include the Assessment and Navigation Service (ANS), Emergency Department, Same Day Emergency Care (Acute Medicine / Surgery / Gynaecology), off-site UTC or self-care. Shadowing sessions, training sessions and live assessment prior to commitment are provided as this role is not suited to everyone. Training and support are given.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder is required to work within the limits of their competency in acute primary care ( and minor injury when trained) seeing patients of all ages. They will be an integral part of a team which also includes NPs, CPs, GPRs and Health Care Assistants (HCAs). Excellent communication skills with patients and colleagues are essential along with openness and a firm duty of candour.
• Within the UTCs GPs work from an appointed ledger: patients are booked into 15-minute slots. GPs currently have 3 booked patients per hour and 1 x 15minute slot to support the wider UTC team as needed clinically whilst on shift. The postholder may need to be flexible in terms of location of work, depending on staffing and service demand.
• Clinical documentation is on SystmOne.
• Diagnosis is primarily based on history and examination (with baseline observations including random capillary glucose / ketones and ECGs). Plain X-ray imaging is available to those who are qualified to order and interpret them (training can be provided and on-call reporting radiographers / radiologists are available).

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent (JCPTGP/nMRCGP)
• Membership of a recognized defence union (MPS/MDU)
• Currently on a performers list and never been removed from a performers list for a detrimental reason
• DRCOG
• DFFP/FFFP
• DCH

Experience & Knowledge

• Clinical training and experience as a General Practitioner
• Evidence of recent self-directed learning or development
• Experience in a wide variety of clinical settings
• Experience of use of primary care IT systems
• Experience of, and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate staff from other professions
• Experience of and commitment to clinical audit. A good understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues as well as current health and social policy
• Experience of GP clinical IT systems
• Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.
• Experience of leadership and management
• Experience of supervising trainees
• Educational Qualification
• Experience of and commitment to Quality Improvement
• Research experience

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Jayne Blackburn Job title Operational Service Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07876845914 Additional information

Julian Coffey - Head of Service

Maria Towart - Lead Nurse

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