Lead GP

Description

Penrose Health is a GP group delivering primary care across South East London. We operate with strong clinical leadership and professional operational support to allow clinicians to focus on patient care and quality.

Department: GPs

Location: South East London Sites

Compensation: £78,000 - £120,000 / year

Lead GPs continue to work clinically while also acting as the senior clinical leader on site.

You will:

• Lead and line manage the GP team at your allocated practice
• Support newly qualified and transitioning GPs
• Provide clinical leadership and escalation support to all clinicians on site
• Act as the clinical safeguarding lead on site
• Be a senior clinical presence for in-person patient complaints
• Work alongside AHP Leads, who retain line management responsibility for their teams

A key part of the role is improving how clinical decisions affect demand and workload.

You will lead the team to:

• Reduce unnecessary GP-booked follow-ups
• Improve first-time resolution where clinically appropriate
• Reduce avoidable cancelled clinics caused by absence or poor planning
• Improve consistency in clinical decision-making and safety-netting

You are not responsible for appointment scheduling or operational rostering.

You are responsible for clinical standards, behaviours, and reliability.

Penrose Health is not a traditional GP partnership.

• Partners lead clinically across the group
• A Central Management Team runs the operations
• Clinicians are supported by HR, Clinical Admin, Welcome Teams, and cross-group AHP Leads

This role is suited to GPs who:

• Are experienced and interested in clinical leadership
• Enjoy supporting and developing colleagues
• Care about consistency, standards, and quality
• Want to reduce avoidable workload through better decision-making
• Are looking for influence and development without partnership risk

• Minimum 6 sessions per week which will include 2 protected leadership sessions
• We're open to any number of sessions from 6-9 per week
• Remaining sessions are clinical

We have a full job spec available for you to review here