General Practitioner (GP)

General Practitioner (GP)
Job Summary
General Practitioner (GP)
Location: Leasowe, Wirral
Contract: Part-time / Salaried 2-6 sessions available
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Leasowe Medical Practice is a small, community-rooted practice with a clear mission: deliver excellent primary care while actively working to reduce health inequalities in our population. We combine traditional general practice with a growing focus on digital solutions and an innovative approach to lifestyle medicine.

The practice is part of One Wirral CIC, you can find out more about us and our mission to reduce health inequalities here: Apply through our website. As a not-for-profit organisation, any surplus created by our services is reinvested into our people, projects and services to benefit the communities we serve.

Our team is collaborative, values-driven, and committed to long-term relationships with patients and each other.

Application by CV with a covering letter letting us know why you want to work with us at Leasowe Medical Practice and your preferred days to work.

Please direct any questions to onewirral.cic@nhs.net

Closing date: Midnight 09/08/26

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality, person-centred care across the full scope of general practice
• Support good care through the efficient use of digital tools for, clinical triage, repeat prescribing, clinical correspondence and test results.
• Work collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team (nursing, pharmacy, social prescribing, health coaching)
• Contribute to practice-level projects addressing local health inequalities (e.g., outreach clinics, partnership work with community organisations)
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement

About us
Improving peoples health and wellbeing takes time. Fortunately, that is our purpose and passion here at One Wirral.

We collaborate across sectors and organisations finding areas that require extra assistance to reduce health inequalities helping to bridge gaps in health services and support. Our agile approach means we can help people through practical and innovative solutions that really make a difference.

Our Vision: Wirral is a place where everyone can live their healthiest possible life.

Our Mission: To remove barriers to health and wellbeing - targeting support where it's most needed for people to thrive. By partnering with local people and organisations, we shape solutions that promote long-term health and wellbeing.

Our Core Values are:
Equity: We treat everyone fairly by considering individual needs and circumstances and prioritising those who need it most.
Working Together: We promote trust and collaboration, believing that working together achieves better outcomes for everyone.
Creativity: We are driven by a desire to learn, adapt, and innovate, using the evidence to improve lives.

Job Responsibilities
Salaried GP Job Description
Job Title: General Practitioner
Hours: TBC
Responsible to: Clinical Lead

Job summary:
We're looking for a GP who shares our vision and wants to practise medicine with purpose. You'll manage a varied caseload across our diverse patient population, with protected time and support to develop lifestyle medicine skills and contribute to health equity initiatives.

The post holder must:

• Have a GMC registration with a licence to practise
• Qualified to MRCGP or equivalent
• Be included on the NHS England Performers List
• Commit to providing high standards of clinical care
• Be able to work independently and within a team

Clinical responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, person-centred care across the full scope of general practice
• Support good care through the efficient use of digital tools for, clinical triage, repeat prescribing, clinical correspondence and test results.
• Work collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team (nursing, pharmacy, social prescribing, health coaching)
• Contribute to practice-level projects addressing local health inequalities (e.g., outreach clinics, partnership work with community organisations)
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement

About You
Essential:

• GMC registration with a licence to practise and inclusion on the GP Register for at least 2 years
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and understanding of the social determinants of health
• Genuine interest in lifestyle medicine and prevention-focused care
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach

Desirable:

• Experience working with underserved or marginalised communities
• Quality Improvement, teaching, or leadership experience

What We Offer:

• A supportive, values-aligned team with low staff turnover
• Funded training in lifestyle medicine and health inequalities
• Flexible sessions and genuine work-life balance
• Time protected for professional development, mentorship, and special interest work
• The chance to shape how we grow your ideas matter here

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant 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 read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the organisation or other agencies, where appropriate.

Safeguarding:
All employees have a duty and responsibility to protect and safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults. They must therefore be aware of child and adult protection procedures to take appropriate and timely safeguarding action and reduce the risk of significant harm to adults and children from abuse or other types of exploitation.

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 business of the 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 organisation may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the organisation 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 health & safety policy, the health & safety manual, and the infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to local 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 organisation
• Active observation of current working practices across the organisation 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 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-judgmental 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 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:

• 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 organisation, 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.

Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• GMC registration with a licence to practise and inclusion on the GP Register for at least two years
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and understanding of the social determinants of health
• Genuine interest in lifestyle medicine and prevention-focused care
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach

Desirable

• Experience working with underserved or marginalised communities
• Quality Improvement, teaching, or leadership experience

Experience
Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post GP qualification experience
• Time management able to prioritise and work at pace
• Clinical Triage, proven experience of prioritising clinical need
• Clinical Governance
• Self-audit and reflection
• Record keeping - organised and efficient in paperwork completion
• Computer literacy - experience of working with clinical software systems
• Adaptability to change

Desirable

• Experience/interest in training students
• Experience of Service Development

Motivation
Essential

• Commitment to primary prevention and health improvement and reducing health inequalities
• Patient empowerment
• Patient Advocate
• Willingness to support colleagues and share workload
• Able to manage a rapidly changing workload
• Providing mentoring and clinical supervision to other clinicians
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently and of a team
• Personal resilience and ability to work calmly under pressure

Aptitude & Abilities
Essential

• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire health team
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to recognise own limitations and act upon them appropriately
• Willingness to learn new skills and to solve problems daily
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Excellent communicator

Desirable

• Ability to input to organisational strategic developments
• Interest in clinical training
• Working knowledge of ICS Systems
• Desire to develop specialist skills
• Ability to challenge traditional models of working and to suggest improvements for change in a positive and inclusive manner

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Contact Details
Office Manager: Angela Calcott
Email: onewirral.cic@nhs.net
Phone: 01512944470

Employer details
Name: One Wirral CIC
Address: Leasowe Medical Practice, Hudson Road, Leasowe, Wirral, CH46 2QQ
Website: https://www.onewirral.co.uk/