Salaried GP (6 Month Fixed-Term Contract)

Ford Medical Practice; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool seeks an experienced Salaried GP to join their friendly and forward-thinking practice. The role offers a 6-month fixed-term contract with a focus on providing high-quality patient care in a well-supported environment. Utilizing a collaborative approach, the GP will manage various health care needs and contribute to ongoing training and development within the practice. A balanced work-life culture with NHS pension benefits is emphasized.

Benefits

NHS pension

Indemnity and BMA contract terms

Support for training and development

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience with primary care services.
• Ability to make autonomous decisions regarding patient care.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality patient-centred general medical services.
• Manage a caseload and ensure highest standards of care.
• Contribute to clinical administration and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical decision-making

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Medical qualifications to practice medicine

Fully registered doctor in the GP Register of the General Medical Council

Included on the Medical Performers List

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Salaried GP to join our friendly, forward-thinking training practice in Litherland, Liverpool on a 6 month fixed-term contract. This is a 6 session, 3-day per week role with Tuesday, Thursday and Friday as essential working days. With a list size of 6,000 patients, allocated time for all clinical and administrative work, and light home-visiting with support from an Acute Visiting Scheme, this role offers a healthy work-life balance without compromising patient care. You will be joining a supportive, collaborative team in a well‑resourced practice that genuinely values staff wellbeing and professional satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide high‑quality, patient‑centred general medical services, including routine and urgent consultations, clinical decision‑making, and ongoing management of acute and chronic conditions. The role includes contributing to clinical administration, results handling, and multidisciplinary working, with appropriate time allocated within the working day. There will also be opportunities to support training and development within the practice.

About us

The practice operates from a modernised, extended semi-detached building with on‑site parking and excellent facilities, including a shower for those who cycle or run to work. Conveniently located in Litherland, we are within easy reach of Liverpool and major motorway links. We offer a competitive employment package including NHS pension, indemnity and BMA contract terms, and actively promote a healthy work‑life balance.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

A key member of the team, the Salaried GP will manage a caseload, dealing with a wide range of presenting health care needs in a primary care setting. The post holder will work with clinical colleagues in ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered patients. The post holder will also contribute to planning and decision making as part of the practice team; the job description therefore covers clinical and organisational elements.

Clinical Responsibilities

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, issuing and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Makes professionally autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self‑referred or referred internally within the Practice.
• Receives patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and makes assessment of their health care needs.
• Screens patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Develops care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols.
• Provides counselling and health education.
• Prescribes in accordance with the current prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Admits or discharges patients to and from caseload and refers them to other care providers internally or externally as appropriate.
• Supports the trainers in teaching in the Practice and gives clinical supervision to training doctors.
• Complies with relevant Practice policy/guidelines, e.g. Child Protection, confidentially issues etc.
• Is committed to lifelong learning, audit and effectiveness issues to ensure evidence based best practice.
• Maintains GMC registration.
• Ensures continuous Medical Defence cover.
• Ensures inclusion on a local Performers list.

Other Responsibilities within the Practice

• Consults with patients in the surgery and at home visits as agreed internally between all partners.
• Be available for on‑call duties to answer patients telephone queries or carry out emergency home visits, or surgery consultations as appropriate.
• Contributes to the evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting with colleagues.
• Records clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards;
• Compiles and issues computer‑generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand‑written prescriptions whenever possible);
• In general the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
• Contributes to the strategic management and development of the Practice e.g. in developing and contributing to Practice policies and guidelines.
• Attendance at training, Practice Meetings and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Meets all tight timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g. Quarterly Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF audit etc.)
• Ensuring full accreditation which will include full and unrestricted registration with the GMC, membership of an appropriate defence body and delivery of annual evidence for appraisal or accreditation purposes in keeping with National requirements at any time.
• A commitment to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based best practice

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately;

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential and information gained must not be communicated to other persons except in the recognised course of duty. Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information will result in disciplinary action and may lead to dismissal.

Health & Safety

The post holder must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act to ensure that the agreed procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for patients, visitors and staff.

The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines;

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks;

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills;

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards;

Equality and Diversity

The post holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non‑judgemental and recognises the importance of peoples circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation;

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues;

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, the post holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, annual GP Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development;

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision;

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance;

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs;

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. The post holder will also contribute to the overall team‑working of the Practice putting the needs of the Practice first.

Communication

The post holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members;

Communicate effectively with patients and carers;

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Flexibility

This role profile is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder will be expected to be flexible in relation to duties undertaken and location of work where required by the Practice.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post holder will:-

Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.

Participate in audit where appropriate.

Work with the partners and management team to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, budgets and targets without compromising levels of patient healthcare

Contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards,

policies and procedures that are/will be required by GP practices now and in

the future.

Person Specification

Experience

• Post qualification experience with primary care services

Qualifications

• Hold the appropriate medical qualifications required in order to practice medicine.
• Be included as a fully registered doctor in the GP Register of the General Medical Council.
• Be included on the Medical Performers List.
• Not be suspended or disqualified from practice under any disciplinary proceedings that may result in any such disqualification or censure on the grounds of professional misconduct or negligence.

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.