GP Medical Lead – Luther St Medical Practice Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

GP Medical Lead for Luther Street Medical Centre required

We are delighted to offer this fantastic opportunity for a GP to join Luther Street Medical Centre (LSMC) and work as the designated medical lead.

LSMC is our unique and award-winning GP surgery which provides primary care services to adults experiencing homelessness in Oxford City. The practice cares for around 500 adult patients from a city centre building and achieves its success via a multi – disciplinary team which includes GP’s, practice nurses, mental health practitioners, social prescribers, Turning Point (Oxfordshire drug and alcohol treatment service), dentistry, podiatry, acupuncture and volunteers. The clinical team is well supported by excellent administrative and management teams, allowing our GP’s and clinicians to concentrate on their clinical work.

If you are a GP looking for an interesting role or a new challenge that mixes clinical and leadership responsibilities, and have experience of working as a GP partner or in other medical leadership roles, this opportunity may be of interest to you.

Main duties of the job

The work you will do will make a significant contribution to the lives of this small but vulnerable patient group. Being part of a larger corporate organisation, you can draw upon significant clinical and operational resource allowing you to really focus on medically leading the service.

Working in this role comes with the following additional benefits:

• 3 days per week (no weekend or out of hours commitments): 2 days clinical and 1 day management, admin and CPD
• Salary £104,000 FTE (pro rata for part time)
• NHS Pension
• CPD allowance
• Generous Annual leave and study leave allowances (including access to an individual study leave budget)
• 20 minute appointments with catch up slots including admin
• Opportunities for teaching and mentoring clinical staff, for personal development and for working across our other clinical services if desired
• Opportunities to undertake Quality Improvement, research, and other innovation projects, with strong academic links to the two Oxford Universities
• Strong support from the senior management team

About us

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.