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Locum GP

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC

Ruislip, HA4 8NXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£90.00

Contract

Locum

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

22 October 2026

2 days left

Job description

The locum GP role is an essential member of the clinical team with the Extended Access Service. You will provide high quality clinical care to the pat...

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

  • Surgery and Telephone Consultations
  • Administration
  • Complying with the Confederation contracts
  • Education

and training of junior/trainee clinical staff.

  • Provide high

quality consultations to patients in Hillingdon managing acute and chronic

disease

  • Work with the

operations team and Service Clinical Lead to ensure the provision of high

quality care

  • Work with the

Clinical Lead to ensure the clinical safety of the service by provide clinical

updates/training/incident reviews when appropriate.

  • Complete and provide the analysis of clinical audits as requested

by the clinical lead or COD.

  • Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and

locally agreed guidelines

  • Conduct patient consultations during the service clinical

appointment hours

  • Undertake telephone and face to face consultations as required
  • Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
  • Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional

interventions as appropriate

  • Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
  • Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing

advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle

  • Carry out patient testing and screening as required
  • Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health

needs

  • Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
  • Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering

bad news

  • Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients

and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred

communication method

  • Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking

support from other staff members where necessary

  • Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients

aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply

with treatment

  • Provide services to the practices patient population to the

highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of

conduct

  • Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking

appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review,

benchmarking and evaluation

  • Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to

ensure the continual improvement of service delivery

  • Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant

events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework

  • Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the

highest standards of care

  • Support the performance of team members and collaborate in

improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local

and national policy and strategy

  • Work within the service legal framework for identifying vulnerable

patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients

  • Service-related duties
  • Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
  • Record and collect data for audit purposes
  • Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and

contact with patients

  • Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract

enhanced services and QOF

  • Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff

through informal catch-ups and contact

  • Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical

educational/training-related and administrative meetings

  • Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and

stakeholders

  • Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate
  • Personal and professional development
  • Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
  • Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
  • Prepare for and complete revalidation process
  • Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior

members of staff, sharing information and good practice

  • Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to

prioritise team and practice workload

  • Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
  • Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for

delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice

education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning,

reflection, complaints and feedback

  • Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient

care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework

  • Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as

reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video

analysis of consultations, etc

  • Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and

students

  • Work to deliver effective and safe care and liaise with GP

practices, community services, and secondary care to ensure patients have a

good and effective experience of services and care.

  • Make recommendations and support the development of the service

and to develop it in terms of quality, efficiency, patient experience, and

scale; must including continual quality improvement processes.

  • Ensure ongoing good governance and delivery of the service

reporting incidents and being part of clinical audits

  • To always act to support and protect the reputation, safety and

sustainability of the Confederation.

  • To be available to attend internal team meetings as needed
  • To be adaptable and flexible to wherever possible cover ad hoc

duties as they arise and are necessary to be completed.

  • To work and apply oneself in the best interests of primary care

provision in Hillingdon.

  • To bring the skills, knowledge and experience they have personally

attained and apply them within the clinical operations to the best of their

ability and to the interests and duties listed above.

  • To contribute to generally in terms of values, behaviours, and

attitudes so that the leadership of the team demonstrates the values the

Confederation seeks to represent and uphold

Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with General Practice and other healthcare

providers to deliver its vision for Hillingdon to deliver the best primary

care outcomes for patients in the whole of London. We are a

not-for-profit community interest company. The Confederation works to

develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their

changing needs. We deliver excellent clinical services ourselves both at

scale and complementary to General Practice. We are the provider representative

voice for local General Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners.

We are of the NHS but independent, innovative and transformational.

The Confederation

determines to develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles

and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in

turn delivers our vision.

Our Values

  • We work together to make a difference for patients
  • We care enough to go the extra mile
  • We support, trust, and empower
  • We sincerely value each other
  • We support primary care to own its destiny

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in urgent care clinical services
  • Extensive experience of virtual clinical consultations
  • Ability to plan, co-ordinate and deliver programmes of work on time and to a high standard
  • Excellent organisational skills with an attention to detail and an ability to finish tasks completely and to a high standard
  • Ability to keep full, accurate and up to date records to a high standard
  • Ability to assimilate information quickly and make clear and effective decisions under pressure
  • Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening explaining, promoting, listening, learning, to / at all levels of the healthcare system
  • Ability to motivate and engender trust and team identity
  • In depth user knowledge of EMIS

Desirable: - Extensive experience of working in primary care in Hillingdon

Qualifications

Essential: - GMC Registration; - Qualified GP

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

Source

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First seen

8 October 2026

Last checked

8 October 2026

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