SALARIED GP

Overview

In this GP role, you will provide primary care to older adults living in care homes, working within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, person-centered care. You’ll manage chronic and end-of-life needs, support families through advanced care planning, and contribute to audits and incentive schemes. You’ll collaborate with hospital partners and geriatricians to improve outcomes and education for care home staff, while maintaining strong IT and documentation standards. This position offers scope to influence elderly care at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive benefits package
• generous annual leave
• flexible working opportunities
• protected hours for health and wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Home rounds and acute services delivery
• Prescribing repeat medications and managing test results
• Producing medical reports and performing examinations
• Providing end-of-life care and assisting with advanced care planning
• Making autonomous clinical decisions on presentation and day-to-day issues
• Maintaining clear, contemporaneous IT-based consultation notes
• Supporting admission avoidance and long-term care planning
• Data collection for audits and participation in QOF, Local Enhanced Services, and CCG incentives
• Ensuring prescribing aligns with local/national guidelines
• Fulfilling all usual GP duties in primary care

Key requirements

• Full GMC registration with licence to practise
• Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice
• Inclusion on NHS England GP Performers List (or eligibility)
• MRCGP and performers list registration
• Experience caring for older people out of hospital
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong IT proficiency and familiarity with primary care systems (EMIS)
• Experience with Microsoft Office
• Willingness to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to focus on both long-term strategic goals and short-term issues

• Excellent communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Team working in a multidisciplinary environment
• Leadership and governance involvement
• EMIS or equivalent primary care clinical system
• Microsoft Office suite

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