Gp, Doctor​/Physician

Position: Salaried GP

Job Summary

Salaried GP 4 Sessions per Week - Wednesdays & Fridays

Hucclecote Surgery has an exciting opportunity for a Salaried GP to join our well-established, stable, and innovative GMS training practice. Located on the outskirts of Gloucester City, the practice has a patient list of approximately 9,000, is CQC rated Good, and will be moving to a purpose‑built new surgery in early 2027. This position offers 4 sessions per week, with structured AM and PM sessions, 15‑minute face‑to‑face appointments, 10‑minute telephone consultations, and 60 minutes of GP‑bookable follow‑up slots per day.

GPs receive a monthly administration session, and there is a 40‑minute daily coffee break for peer support and communication.

Team

• 5 GP Partners
• 2 Salaried GPs
• Dedicated nursing team managing chronic disease
• Experienced management team
• Prescribing pharmacist and pharmacy technicians
• Social prescriber
• Mental health nurse
• Care coordinator
• Frailty nurses
• First contact physiotherapist

Responsibilities

• Make yourself available for surgery consultations, telephone consultations, home visits, and query handling.
• Sign repeat prescriptions and manage paperwork and correspondence timely.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions regarding presenting problems.
• Assess health care needs for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Develop care plans in line with patient goals and current disease management protocols.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Admit or discharge patients and refer to appropriate providers.
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Prescribe following formulary, guidelines and NHS Gloucestershire guidelines.
• Participate in training and supervision of other clinicians.
• Undertake additional duties as requested.

Other Responsibilities Within Organisation

• Comply with all relevant policies and guidelines.
• Commit to lifelong learning and audit activities.
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting.
• Help develop computer‑based patient records and summarise Read‑coding data.
• Attend training and events organised by the surgery.

Confidentiality

• Respect patient privacy and data protection.
• Maintain confidentiality of all patient and staff information unless disclosure is permitted by GMC.
• Share confidential information only with authorized persons as per policy.

Health & Safety

• Use personal security systems as required.
• Identify and manage risks associated with work activities.
• Update knowledge and skills through training.
• Apply infection control procedures and keep work areas tidy.
• Report potential risks.

Equality & Diversity

• Support equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Respect privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of all.
• Behave in a welcoming, non‑judgemental manner.

Personal / Professional Development

• Participate in annual performance reviews.
• Maintain a record of personal and professional development.
• Continue CPD activities as required.

Quality

• Alert team members to quality and risk issues.
• Assess own performance and take accountability.
• Suggest improvements for team performance.
• Collaborate with other agencies to meet patient needs.
• Manage own time, workload and resources effectively.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Contribution to Implementation of Services

• Apply policies, standards and guidance.
• Work within budgets.
• Assist with policy production, updating and implementation under senior partner approval.
• Train and supervise other employees where requested.
• Discuss with team how policies affect work.
• Participate in audits where appropriate.

Person Specification – Experience

• Recent experience working in general practice in the UK.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary and skill‑mixed team environment.
• Experience achieving standards within QOF and PCN DES/IIF.

Person Specification

– Desirable Experience

• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience supporting service change.
• Participation in Audit and QOF.

Person Specification –

Skills and Abilities

• Understand local patient population needs.
• Commi…