Salaried GP (1 Year Maternity Cover)NHS

Job summary

Oakwood Lane Medical Practice has a great opportunity for a GP to join our team for 7 sessions per week, to include Thursday and Friday. The post is for 12 months to cover a maternity leave and will run from 23 November 2026 to December 2027.

In addition to a competitive salary, NHS Pension and working with a supportive team, working as a GP at Oakwood Lane Medical Practice has other benefits:

• All GP appointment requests are triaged by our Appointment Hub
• Home visits are infrequent
• We employ a talented Mental Health Practitioner, specifically for our patients. GPs can refer directly into them.
• We are seeking ways to minimise the number of letters sent to GPs by remodelling our existing workflow processes
• A team of great PCN Pharmacists who cover Meds reviews including polypharmacy.
• A PCN team to support our Care Homes.
• A proactive PCN team who focus on supporting the severely frail population.
• Extended Access support - Healthy Minds practitioner, Virtual MSK & meds management, Saturday Hub on site with GP / Nurse/HCA appointments run by Leeds GP Confederation.
• Fortnightly clinical meetings, daily coffee catch up meetings and shared lunch on Fridays

If you have a desire to make a real difference to those living with acute illness and chronic disease and work with a fantastic bunch of people, please apply.

Main duties of the job

Conducting face to face and virtual appointments

Processing PATCHS clinical queries and telephone triage

Participating in the on call rota and the triage lead in the Appointment Hub

Admin - arising directly from your caseload (referrals, investigations, results) and indirectly (reports, medicals, etc)

Support and debrief for junior doctors and medical students.

Visits when required

Job description

• Undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, video consultations and queries
• Share of oncall days and lead for Appointment Hub triage.
• Visiting patients at home when required
• Checking and signing repeat prescriptions when required
• Dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• 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
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• 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 hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Support and debrief of junior doctors and medical students.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

We are a creative, energetic and innovative practice with strong links to the wider health and social care system. We also play a leading role within our Primary Care Network.

We operate in a large and modern purpose built medical centre with free parking in the LS8 area of Leeds.

We consider ourselves a friendly and inclusive practice and we are very proud of the fact that our people are diverse and come from a broad mix of backgrounds.

Our skill mix is equally diverse. In addition to 11 GPs, 3 nurses, 2 Health Care Assistants and a Phlebotomist, we also have our own Pharmacy Technician and Mental Health Practitioner.

We are proud to have become a training practice and are currently supporting ST1 and FY2 Junior Doctors, as well as Year 1,2 & 3 medical students.

The clinical team are supported by a talented team of receptionists and administrators led by a Business Manager, Practice Manager and Asst Practice Manager and two Reception Supervisors.

If you would like to know more about our organisation please feel free to contact us directly for an informal chat or visit so you can see for yourself our working environment and meet the team at Oakwood Lane Medical Practice.