• Job Description

  Req#: A3263-25-0002?language=en&page=989&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated General Practitioner to join a dynamic healthcare team at Fell Tower Medical Centre. We are seeking a Salaried GP to work 6-8 sessions per week (negotiable for the right candidate), contributing to the provision of high-quality patient care. We are a friendly and welcoming practice currently consisting of 3 Partners and 2 salaried GPs. The successful candidate will enjoy a supportive environment with a focus on continuous professional development.

  We would welcome applicants with an interest in women's health.

  The advert may be removed once a suitable amount of candidates have applied.

  Main duties of the job

  The delivery of highly effective medical care to the practice population.

  The provision of services in-line with the GMS contract.

  Generic prescribing adhering to local and national guidance.

  Effective management of long-term conditions.

  Processing of administration in a timely manner, including referrals, repeat prescription requests and other associated administrative tasks.

  Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with good practice, policy and guidance.

  Working collaboratively, accepting an equal share of the practice workload.

  Adhere to best practice recommended through clinical guidelines and the audit process.

  Contribute to the successful implementation of continuous improvement and quality initiatives within the practice.

  Attend and contribute effectively to practice meetings as required.

  Support the Partners and Management Team in achieving the strategic aims of the practice.

  Review and adhere to practice protocols and policies at all times.

  About us

  Fell Tower Medical Centre is a busy and popular Practice based in Low Fell, Gateshead. We work from a purpose built three-storey Practice in the heart of Low Fell. We are a forward thinking Practice, continually looking at ways to maintain a high quality service to our 7500 patients. We have an established and efficient administration team which allows our Clinicians to focus on patient care.

  The Practice has:

  Emis Web supported by Ardens and AccuRX

  High QoF achievement

  CQC rating Good

  Training for GP Registrars

  Active participation in Primary Care Network

  Support via PCN Pharmacists, Mental Health Practitioners, Counsellors and Physiotherapists.

  Staff wellbeing initiatives through Better Health at Work

  NHS Pension

  Blue Light Card

  Details

  Date posted

  11 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  A3263-25-0002

  Job locations

  575-583 Durham Road

  Low Fell

  Gateshead

  NE9 5EY

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, bleep holding, 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 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.

  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 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 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

  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, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

  Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

  Maintenance of own clean working environment

  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 when recognised

  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, including handling, segregation, and container use

  Maintenance of sterile environments

  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 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-judgemental 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, with 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.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, bleep holding, 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 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.

  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 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 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

  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, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

  Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

  Maintenance of own clean working environment

  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 when recognised

  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, including handling, segregation, and container use

  Maintenance of sterile environments

  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 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-judgemental 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, with 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.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in all aspects of general practice

  Desirable

  • Experience of women's health

  Skills

  Essential

  • Good communication skills
  • Good consultation skills Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to work with other agencies.
  • Ability to assess acutely ill patients.
  • Flexibility Able to work under pressure
  • Calm & Confident Decision Maker
  • Caring

  Desirable

  • Emis Web IT Skills

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Full GMC Registration Completion of GP Vocational Training Scheme/JCTGP Certificate Evidence of entry to the Performers List

  Desirable

  • Qualification in area of women's health.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in all aspects of general practice

  Desirable

  • Experience of women's health

  Skills

  Essential

  • Good communication skills
  • Good consultation skills Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to work with other agencies.
  • Ability to assess acutely ill patients.
  • Flexibility Able to work under pressure
  • Calm & Confident Decision Maker
  • Caring

  Desirable

  • Emis Web IT Skills

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Full GMC Registration Completion of GP Vocational Training Scheme/JCTGP Certificate Evidence of entry to the Performers List

  Desirable

  • Qualification in area of women's health.

  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).

  Additional information

  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

  Fell Tower Medical Centre

  Address

  575-583 Durham Road

  Low Fell

  Gateshead

  NE9 5EY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.felltowermedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Fell Tower Medical Centre

  Address

  575-583 Durham Road

  Low Fell

  Gateshead

  NE9 5EY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.felltowermedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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