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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

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

4 September 2026

Last checked

5 September 2026

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About the employer

SQS
South Queen Street Medical Centre

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