Salaried GP
South Queen Street Medical Centre
Leeds, LS27 9EW
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 September 2026
20 days left
Job description
South Queen Street Medical Centre in Morley, Leeds have an exciting opportunity for a GP to join our friendly and supportive practice team, working 2-...
The post-holder will provide personal medical services, managing 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 themselves 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and
in line with current practice disease management protocols
- 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 electronic & computer-generated acute
and repeat prescriptions
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary
(or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
- The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal
duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary
care.
Other responsibilities within the organisation
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies
- 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
- Read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other
agencies
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 a full range of promotion and management of their
own and others’ health and safety and infection control as defined in the
practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual,
and the practice infection control policy. 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
- Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the
specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of
correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and
ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate
circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
- Management of the full range of infection control procedures in
both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual
infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self and others
- Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically
based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across
the practice
- Active observation of current working practices across the
practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related
activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training
needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible
person
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking
such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and
patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to
infection control
- Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work
areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety
hazards and infection hazards immediately
- Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean
sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work
areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance
of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation
(where appropriate) with responsible managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice
annually)
- Correct waste and instrument management
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children.
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 recognises the importance of people’s 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
- Participation in an annual individual performance review
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal
and/or professional development
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
- 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 team and will strive to
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers and team members
Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and
respond accordingly.
We have a varied and passionate clinical team consisting of , 3 salaried GP's , 1 senior Partner , 1 ANP , 1 Practice Pharmacist , 1 Practice nurse and 2 HCA's who work alongside our excellent administration team.
We are part of the Morley & District Primary Care Network and are also a training practice for Foundation Doctors.
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical practitioner whose name is included in the
- General MC Register
- Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the
- Medical Act 1983
- Qualified GP with Certificate of Completion of
- Training (CCT)
- Currently on National Performers List
- Has DBS clearance Has had an annual NHS appraisal where
- applicable
- Has been revalidated as required
Desirable
- Evidence of further postgraduate educational
- activities in relevant fields
- MRCGP
- DCH
- DRCOG
- RCGP
- Evidence of CPD activities
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of working in general practice in
- the UK
- Commitment to and experience of working as part
- of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team
- environment
- Experience of working to achieve standards within
- the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
Desirable
- Evidence of independent working in General
- Practice
- Experience of supporting service change
- Evidence of participation in QOF
- Evidence in participation in Audit
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Understand the health and social needs of the local
- patient population
- Commitment to personal and professional
- development
- Commitment to education and training
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Excellent record keeping skills
- Understanding the current issues and challenges
- facing primary care
- Confident in using IT (word/excel/outlook) & clinical
- systems
- Excellent time management
- Good analytical skills
Desirable
- National NHS guidance and structure
- Familiar with the clinical system , SystmOne
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Provenance
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First seen
4 September 2026
Last checked
5 September 2026
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