Location
Whitby, England
Salary
£11284.00
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
General practitioner
Deadline
14 Sep 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
28 Aug 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Job requirements

Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.

Essential

26 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    Have worked in a GP setting

  • Experience

    Microsoft Office applications

  • Experience

    Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter personal skills

  • Experience

    Ability to listen and empathise

  • Experience

    Good time management

  • Experience

    Excellent keyboard and computer Skills

  • Experience

    Problem solving and a 'solutions focused' approach

  • Experience

    Understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues as well as health and social policy

  • Experience

    Pleasant and articulate

  • Experience

    Hard working, willing and flexible with ability to work under pressure

  • Experience

    Empathetic, honest, caring, diplomatic and considered

  • Experience

    Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

  • Experience

    Self-motivated, positive and forward looking

  • Experience

    Observance of strict confidentiality

  • Experience

    Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense.

  • Qualifications

    Qualified GP

  • Qualifications

    GMC full registration

  • Qualifications

    Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent (JCPTGP)

  • Qualifications

    Membership of recognised defense union

  • Qualifications

    MRCGP

  • Qualifications

    Currently on a GP performers list

  • Qualifications

    Never been removed from a performers list for a detrimental reason

  • Other Requirements

    Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check clearance

  • Other Requirements

    Occupational health clearance

  • Other Requirements

    Meet the requirements and produce evidence for GP revalidation

  • Other Requirements

    Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role

Desirable

5 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    Knowledge of local clinical pathways

  • Experience

    GP Clinical IT systems

  • Experience

    Strong interest in education

  • Qualifications

    DRCOG / DFP / DCH

  • Qualifications

    Recognised qualifications for GP registrar training

Job summary

We are a friendly, well-established practice with a list size of approximately 13,500 patients, looking to recruit an enthusiastic GP to join our team, with a potential view to future partnership.

Currently there are 3 partners supported by a team of 8 salaried GP's, 2 Advanced Care Practitioners, Nurse Prescribers, Practice Nurses and HCA's, 3 Pharmacists, 2 Pharmacy technicians, a dispensing team, care coordinators and a committed admin and management team.

We are a training practice that works with Hull and York Medical School and currently support Year 4 medical students, GP Registrars and FY2's.

Main duties of the job

A typical working day includes:

  • Morning clinic: 10 appointments with three protected admin slots
  • Afternoon clinic: 10 appointments with three protected admin slots
  • 15-minute appointments for both face-to-face and telephone consultations

-There are no routine home visits during standard clinic sessions. Instead, one GP covers home visits for the practice on a rolling rota basis.

-We don't have a Duty GP, instead we build in urgent appointments to all GP's rotas as part of their 20 slots for the day.

-Built into the rota each day is a paid, dedicated 30-minute clinical meeting every afternoon, encouraging peer discussion, shared learning, and team support.

About us

-We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and collaborative working environment with a strong emphasis on continuity of care, with all GPs holding their own patient lists.

-We have been rated Good by CQC and are a consistently high QOF achieving practice.

-The practice is a very desirable place to work with a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. It is very important to the partners that this is maintained and developed.

Details

  • Date posted: 28 August 2026
  • Pay scheme: Other
  • Salary: £11,284 a session
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
  • Reference number: A0607-26-0001
  • Job locations: Rievaulx Road, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 1SD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

  • Provide high quality patient care including prevention, screening, treatment, management of chronic conditions and health promotion
  • Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice protocols as well as wider guidance e.g. NICE
  • Carry out surgery and telephone consultations and undertake home visits
  • Speak and see patients promptly and in a timely manner. In order to minimise waiting times.
  • Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
  • Generate, check and sign acute and repeat prescriptions in-line with practice policy
  • Liaise with other team members and organisations involved in patient care and respond promptly to queries
  • Investigate and refer patients as appropriate in line with current guidance
  • Deal promptly with results and correspondence, clearly communicating any actions that are required
  • Provide cover as needed, for all of the above, when other GPs are on leave
  • When providing care ensure the judicious use of resources and NHS funds
  • Keep clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes and patient records to agreed standards and in-line with practice policies
  • Collect data for audit and QoF purposes
  • Prescribe generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice formulary, commissioning and national guidance
  • Maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers to ensure effective delivery of care

Other day to day Responsibilities within the Organisation:

  • Demonstrate an awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant Practice policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
  • Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF, prescribing targets and other agreed performance Indicator targets
  • Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to clinical governance processes including significant event review
  • Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning, audit and evidence-based best practice
  • Contribute to evaluation and audit within the practice
  • Attend and demonstrate commitment to, clinical, clinical governance and educational meetings, ensure that accurate records and minutes are kept and circulated and that action points from previous meetings have been addressed
  • Show responsiveness to other doctors and team members working with you at any given time with regard to sharing of workload
  • Assist with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate
  • Develop and promote positive collaborative working relationships with partners and all team members
  • Liaise with all relevant agencies and services to promote knowledge and awareness of services in the practice and local community
  • Complete patient reports within a timely manner
  • Take responsibility for own personal development and participate fully in the GP appraisal scheme
  • Raise with management if you identify concerns about the health or performance of a colleague or team member
  • 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
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

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. As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers. You may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business 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 Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health,

safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice
  • guidelines
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities
  • in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
  • Reporting potential risks identified.

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 recognizes 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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

UK Registration

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

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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