Salaried GPGP Practice

Job summary

The Role

The successful candidate will work closely within the practice team, 4-6 sessions per week, contributing to the delivery of high-quality primary care.

Key Responsibilities

Undertake telephone and face-to-face consultations with a wide range of patients and health issues (15-minute appointments).

Manage patient demand, collaborating with colleagues in the Clinical Hub (triage).

Conduct home visits when clinically necessary.

Provide safe, effective, and evidence-based care in line with practice policies.

Prescribe, request, and interpret investigations, and manage referrals as appropriate.

Dealing with laboratory results, Docman and any other practice administrative tasks that are clinician appropriate.

Why Work for

Us?

Exciting

opportunity to join our fantastic team of highly skilled nurses, HCAs, ANPs,

physios, pharmacists, and GPs.

Daily

clinical meeting to discuss cases, share ideas, and enhance collaborative

working and personal development in a supportive environment.

Our

exceptionally well-organised team of non-clinical staff keep GP paperwork to a minimum.

Based

in a modern community health centre shared with many other services including

DNs, HVs, physio, community cardiology, and radiology with on-site parking and

modern facilities.

6

weeks annual leave (pro rata) + study leave.

Main duties of the job

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care and this will include fulfilling on-call duties.

About us

About

Us

We are a well-established training GP

practice serving a patient population of around 15,600. Our team includes 7 Partners

supported by a strong multi-disciplinary workforce, delivering a wide range of

high-quality services to our local community. We strive to create a supportive,

friendly, and progressive environment where innovative ideas are welcomed and

professional development is encouraged. As

a large practice, we embrace modern ways of working, making best use of technology

and people skills to provide safe and effective care. We follow the Modern

General Practice Access Model using the PATCHS online consultation tool. We are

a member of Brighter Birkenhead and function as Hub for a range of PCN

Services.

Details

Date posted

14 October 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A3441-26-0007

Job locations

St Catherine’s Health Centre

Church Road

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH42 0LQ

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE BUSINESS MANAGER (Administratively)

SESSIONS: 4-6 sessions per week

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care and this will include fulfilling on-call duties.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records

Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

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

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and management their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /

contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process including

collection labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff

Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice

Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice

Ensuring job holders across the practice adhere to their individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.

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

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed

Actively identifying, reporting and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas and within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with office / Business Manager

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection

Spillage control procedures, management and training

Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance

Maintenance of sterile environments

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 recognizes the importance of peoples 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

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

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 for PREP 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, 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 quality and risk

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.

Communication:

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

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

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

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within Primary Care

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St Catherine’s Surgery

Address

St Catherine’s Health Centre

Church Road

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH42 0LQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.stcatherinessurgery-wirral.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Catherine’s Surgery

Address

St Catherine’s Health Centre

Church Road

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH42 0LQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.stcatherinessurgery-wirral.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)