Senior Lead GP

Sussex Primary Care; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Haywards Heath seeks a motivated GP leader to take on a clinical leadership role, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care. Responsibilities include leading clinical strategy, overseeing quality assurance, and developing clinical governance systems while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. This role offers strong support for your professional development, allowing you to make a meaningful impact within a friendly environment.

Benefits

Strong support for professional development

Friendly, multidisciplinary team

15-minute patient appointments

Qualifications

• Experience in providing clinical leadership in a GP practice.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and quality improvement.
• Ability to coordinate supervision for GPs and non-medical prescribers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical strategy and oversee quality assurance.
• Support practice staff on quality and safety matters.
• Develop robust clinical governance systems.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Quality assurance

Patient care management

Clinical governance

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Our innovative model has been designed to: Allow GPs to spend more time doing the tasks only they can do. More time for specific types of patients, specific clinical and non-clinical administration, specific leadership functions, and clinical supervision of ACP Clinical Leads, medics and pharmacists

• Improve our ability to segment patient care in a more standardised way, and identify how best to utilise our workforce in individual surgeries and across SPC surgeries
• Improve our ability to retain experienced ACP Clinical Leads. To support and develop the ACP Clinical Leadership model further, and to clinically supervise and develop ACP and Non-medical prescribing staff
• Future proof the SPC model of standardisation of roles, processes and systems, centralisation of roles, resilient workforce, improved stewardship of SPC finances
• Ensure that the practice level leadership and/or management functions are covered by a clinician who is best placed to do so., Provide proactive and visible clinical leadership, supporting and guiding practice staff on quality and safety matters.
• Develop and embed robust clinical governance systems, ensuring active participation by all medical staff.
• Lead on clinical strategy, improvement planning, and quality assurance across the practice.
• Collaborate with Practice Management, PCNs, and SPC leads to drive service improvement and staff development.
• Oversee clinical quality and safety, ensuring best practice through NICE implementation, significant event reviews, and compliance with CQC standards.
• Jointly act as CQC Registered Manager and Caldicott Guardian for the practice.
• Coordinate practice education and supervision, ensuring clinical staff remain up to date with policy and guideline changes.
• Provide supervision for GPs and non-medical prescribers in line with SPCs Clinical Leadership Model.
• We are a friendly, forward-thinking teaching GP surgery with a supportive multidisciplinary team, including 7 GPs, an ACP Clinical Lead, Paramedic Practitioner, Prescribing Lead Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician, supported by a brilliant nursing, admin and reception teams. We use SystmOne, offer 15-minute appointments, and provide protected GP Clinical Lead admin sessions to support leadership, quality improvement and mentoring (prorata). The practice is gone through an exciting period of transition, with the implementation of total triage to improve patient access and streamline workflows. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated GP leader to help shape our future direction and be part of a progressive, supportive team delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. We offer strong support for professional development, ensuring you have the time and resources to lead confidently and make a meaningful impact.