Salaried GP - Proactive Care Team

The Red & Green Practice; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A proactive healthcare practice in Southampton seeks a GP Clinical Lead to oversee a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include providing consultations, leading patient assessments, and ensuring effective patient care. Candidates must be fully registered with the General Medical Council. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication, organizational skills, and experience with clinical systems. Both full-time and flexible working arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate professional conduct ensuring safe patient care.
• Ability to manage time and workload efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multidisciplinary Proactive Care Team.
• Oversee medical decisions and conduct health assessments.
• Provide consultations and conduct home visits.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organisational skills

Team player

Education

Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Tools

EMIS

Job description

Main duties of the job

• Be the GP Clinical Lead for a multidisciplinary Proactive Care Team consisting of a GP (this role), Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician, District Nurse and Paramedic.
• Oversee medical decision‑making, conduct regular health assessments and manage complex care home / housebound patients.
• Provide face‑to‑face and telephone consultations for care home and housebound patients.
• Conduct patient home visits either in care home settings or individual personal homes.
• Investigate and review results, develop care plans and make the necessary referrals.
• Issue and sign repeat prescriptions, adhering to national and local guidelines.
• Administer and manage care home and housebound patient queries, test results, referral letters and any other duties as required in a timely manner.
• Make clear consultation notes and records using EMIS.
• Ensure safe, evidence‑based and cost‑effective care in line with practice disease management protocols and NICE guidelines.
• Independently prescribe medications within your scope of practice.
• Review and manage care home and housebound patient medications following the appropriate policies and local clinical guidelines.
• Actively lead MDT and care conference meetings as required.
• Be prepared to be flexible and to provide cover as required in our Urgent Care Centre or for our reactive home visiting team as demand requires, e.g. in response to increased winter pressures.
• Regularly screen for lifestyle factors and support patients in adopting health promotion strategies and self‑care principles.
• Contribute to the delivery of anticipatory care plans.
• Maintain awareness of clinical practice developments, attend PCN wide meetings and clinical meetings, participate in performance reviews and take responsibility for your personal development, engage in mandatory training and attend courses as required.
• Provide clinical support and guidance to both clinical and administrative staff to maintain the highest care standards, collaborate with health and social care providers to deliver an integrated, safe service.
• Adhere to all practice policies and procedures, including those related to prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, apply infection control measures, manage risks in compliance with local and national guidelines, contribute to clinical governance through audits, peer reviews and significant event analysis.
• Ensure patient and carer confidentiality, manage patient data securely, only disclosing it to authorised persons.
• Assist in promoting and maintaining health, safety and security as defined in the PCN Health & Safety Policy, identify risks, undertake training control procedures, keep work areas tidy and safe, recognise and report safeguarding concerns, comply with mandatory training requirements and embed adult safeguarding, understand duties in relation to the Mental Capacity Act.
• Support equality, diversity and the rights of patients, carers and colleagues, act in a welcoming, non‑judgmental manner, respect privacy and dignity, and behave in a manner that is consistent with legislation and PCN procedures.
• The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform tasks as necessitated by your changing role within, and the overall objectives of, the organisation agenda.

About us

The Waterside PCN is hugely successful in providing proactive and coordinated care to 43,000 patients. We have a strong focus on health promotion and personalised care, supporting people to make informed decisions about their health and social care.

We are a dynamic, friendly and supportive PCN with significant experience in training healthcare professionals and offering new models of care utilising a diverse skill mix of professionals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Must be fully registered with the General Medical Council.

Other

• Additional Information
• Confidentiality – Strict adherence to patient and practice confidentiality policies.
• Health and Safety – Commitment to maintaining a safe working environment for staff and patients.
• Flexibility – Ability to work flexibly across local care homes, individual homes and PCN sites.
• General – You will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel between Care Homes, individual residences and our three Practices.
• The Waterside PCN is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

Experience

• Communication Skills – Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make confident decisions.
• Professional Conduct – Ability to work within professional codes of conduct, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
• Organisational Skills – Ability to manage time, workload and patient‑related administration efficiently.
• Team Player – Willingness to work across multiple practices and collaborate with other multidisciplinary teams.
• Clinical Systems Knowledge – Experience with EMIS.

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.

Full‑time, Part‑time, Job share, Flexible working