General Practitioner

Job title: General Practitioner

Location: Lucas Avenue Practice

Salary: Up to £108,000 depending on experience

Hours: 4 sessions per week (full-days Mondays & Thursdays)

Lucas Avenue Practice is a well-established NHS GP surgery based in Plaistow, East London, providing primary healthcare services to patients across Newham and the surrounding communities. The practice offers a wide range of services including routine GP appointments, chronic disease management, women’s health, childhood immunisations, health screening, mental health support, family planning, and preventative care. The practice is supported by a multidisciplinary team of GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, care coordinators, and administrative staff who are committed to delivering accessible, patient-centred care. The surgery is also an accredited GP training practice, supporting the development of future healthcare professionals. Lucas Avenue Practice is rated “Good” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and is focused on providing high-quality, compassionate care while continually improving patient access and services.

Help us to deliver great primary care by improving access, outcomes and patient experience.

At Operose Health, we delivery local primary care, at scale. It is our purpose to improve access, outcomes and patient experience. Our colleagues live our values and our empowered to be the best they can be for our patients, and each other – because we CARE.

Caring

We listen and through compassion, understanding and a willingness to keep an open mind, we support and empower people to have a healthier future.

Ambitious

Through determination and our passion for transforming the patient experience, we continue to redefine and revolutionise the future of primary care.

Resourceful

Creative, agile, with a devotion for lifelong learning, we go above and beyond to improve the quality of our services.

Excellence

We strive to do the best we can do and be the best we can be for our patients, employees and NHS partners.

As a valued member of the Operose Health team, your key duties will include:

• To deliver high quality clinical care to the patients registered and attending the GP surgery and to work closely with the clinical leads and local practice team to support the delivery of the surgeries operational plan.
• You will strive to maintain qualify within the practice ensuring participation in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in qualify health outcomes through audit and the Quality and Outcomes Framework and contributing to the practice achieving other qualify standards to include CQC standards.
• To provide clinical care to patients as described in the job plan and in line with the total triage model. This will include consultation sessions (both in person and by video), telephone triage, correspondence, results, medication reviews and prescription signing and other clinical administration, safeguarding lead, medicals, reports, home visits, surgery meetings and on-call (excluding out of hours).
• To adhere to the highest personal and professional standards as set out by the GMC and to put individual patient care as your priority.
• Working with the Practice Manager and site clinical lead to support the development, delivery and review of the surgery action plan – including list growth, patient satisfaction levels, QOF, enhanced services, KPI targets, resource profile and cost management.

What we look for in new colleagues:

• Current registration with GMC and NHS performers list and engaged in regular clinical work.
• An experienced doctor with GP accreditation - MRCGP examination or equivalent experience.
• Clear commitment to delivering quality and patient focused services.
• Sound knowledge of QOF, LCS, DES, CQUINs and use of appropriate coding.
• Ideally have a working knowledge of clinical systems such as SystmOne or EMISweb.

How we’ll support you:

• Annual salary of up to £112,500 depending on experience and £11,000 per session for newly qualified GPs.
• Full indemnity cover.
• Six weeks annual leave and one week study leave pro rata.
• Support for SPIN fellowship applications.
• Full financial and practical support to become F2 supervisor/GP Trainer with associated income benefits.
• The benefits of working with an at scale provider of primary care means that we lots of opportunities for our colleagues to specialise and develop.
• Car benefit scheme – specialising in electric vehicles.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Travel season ticket loans
• Discount cards.
• Employee wellbeing services including free yoga videos and employee wellbeing app.