ARRs GP
Dr G A Lees & Partners
Leeds, LS12 3HDView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£10,350
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
23 October 2026
3 days leftJob description
We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly team at Armley Medical Practice for an ARRs GP role on a fixed term contract covering 6 - 12 mont...
The post holder will 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.
We are looking for a 6 sessional GP to cover 8 - 6/6:30 - working days to be agreed however must include a Friday.
We operate morning and afternoon surgeries with a mix of telephone and face to face appointments.
The ARRs GP role does not include on call surgeries, home visits or any additional paperwork other than in relation to your own patients.
It is important to maintain continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met.
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake face to face surgery consultations and telephone consultations and deal with results and paperwork in relation to your own patients 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.
- 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.
Information Governance
The key principles of Information Governance must be read and adhered to at all times and the Information Governance Binder read on an annual basis.
The Practice Health and Safety Policy must be adhered to at all times.
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.
- Adhere to the practice equality and diversity policy at all times.
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.
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.
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
- Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
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
We are a friendly, supportive and highly motivated team with excellent clinical administrative support. We offer a competitive salary, and 6 weeks annual leave (pro-rata).
We enjoy socialising and taking part in charitable events such as MacMillan Coffee Mornings, Dementia Awareness, Race for Life, Candlelighters, RNLI Easter Raffle as well as collecting for those in need at Christmas.
We offer our patients a wide range of services to support their physical and mental health needs. We work closely with two other practices in LS12 as part of the Armley Primary Care Network and employ a range of additional staff who work across the three practices.
We are a busy, forward thinking, training practice and pride ourselves on delivering excellent patient care, developing our staff and supporting the community.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential: - Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Desirable: - Emis Clinical System although Training would be provided.
Qualifications
Essential: - GP Qualified and Experience
Desirable: - Details of any specialist knowledge and experience
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
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First seen
1 October 2026
Last checked
5 October 2026
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