Salaried GPGP Practice

Job summary

Salaried GP - 4 to 8 sessions per week.

Are you a mid-career GP seeking a move to a forward looking innovative practice?

Are you a highly motivated, newly qualified GP looking for a well supported first substantive role?

Yes? Then please read on

Stowhealth is a friendly, innovative and exciting GP practice which prides itself on outstanding patient care, excellent patient access and good systems to support our clinicians.

We have an open door ethos, a relaxed working environment and endeavour to support our team to work in a fulfilling, flexible manner.

Stowhealth has a culture of innovating and implementing changes that are of benefit to our patients as well as our staff. Life is tough in General Practice at the moment, we do work hard but strive as a team to always do things better, look after each other and have fun along the way.

Why not join us?

Salary competitive + NHS pension and indemnity cover

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities as a General Practitioner;

The following are the core responsibilities of the General Practitioner. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

Perform clinical examinations of patients to assess, diagnose and monitor conditions

Carry out patient consultations at home and within the surgery

Monitor patients' conditions and wellbeing

Carry out clinical examinations

Diagnose and treat various illnesses/ailments

Liaise with other healthcare professionals (e.g., midwives, pharmacists, health visitors and psychiatrists) as part of multidisciplinary teams

About us

Stowhealth is an inclusive, friendly, flexible, forward thinking, multi-disciplinary Primary Care team, based in Stowmarket, Suffolk. We currently care for over 23,000 patients in the beautiful mid-Suffolk area, with good access to the Suffolk coast, historic Bury st Edmunds, Cambridge and London.

We have a fantastically diverse clinical team with nurses, physician associates, ACP's, ANP's, paramedics, HCA's and pharmacists.

Together we deliver same day access care, award winning long term condition care and health promotion activities. Our approach was included as a case study in the GP Access Recovery Plan.

We use SystmOne and askmyGP to facilitate effective and efficient ways of working.

Our most recent CQC inspection rated us 'Good' overall with 'Outstanding' for the 'Well led' domain. We achieve maximum QOF points and are a training practice for GP Registrars and FY2 Doctors.

We work hard to reduce the clinical and administrative burden on clinicians by making best use of our data team, care coordinators, care navigators, clinician assistants and cutting edge IT systems, recently embracing automated pathology filing, LTC monitoring and recall and AI letter processing.

Our medication management hub and practice pharmacist deal with the majority of medication queries.

We have a first contact physiotherapist to triage MSK problems

Details

Date posted

21 October 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,

Part-time,

Compressed hours

Reference number

A5854-26-0005

Job locations

Violet Hill House

Violet Hill Road

Stowmarket

Suffolk

IP14 1NL

United Kingdom

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:

As agreed in co-operative practice with colleagues, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, On Call, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. To include the designated share of workflow and pathology reports.

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

Engaging with activities such as the QOF, LES/DES and other additional work essential for providing a full service for patients

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health

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 handwritten prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) and the ICB 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, CQC

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 housekeeping and updating of computer-based patient records.

To comply with the Practice IT policy

Contributing to read-coding patient data

Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

All applicants should have the following qualifications:

Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)

Be on the NHSE medical performers list

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

Stowhealth

Address

Violet Hill House

Violet Hill Road

Stowmarket

Suffolk

IP14 1NL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.stowhealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Stowhealth

Address

Violet Hill House

Violet Hill Road

Stowmarket

Suffolk

IP14 1NL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.stowhealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)