Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
EMIS experience
- Experience
Video/telephone consultation experience
- Experience
Experience working in general practice
- Experience
Completion of vocational GP training (e.g. MRCGP/MRCP)
- Qualifications
Full GMC registration
- Qualifications
Medical degree
- Qualifications
Completion of GP registrar training
- Other Requirements
DBS check
- Other Requirements
Maintain confidentiality
- Other Requirements
Comfortable working within a large MDT
- Other Requirements
Interest in chronic disease management
- Personal Qualities
Polite, confident and approachable
- Personal Qualities
Flexible and cooperative
- Personal Qualities
Excellent interpersonal skills
- Personal Qualities
Motivated and proactive
- Personal Qualities
Uses initiative and sound judgement
- Personal Qualities
High integrity and loyalty
- Personal Qualities
Empathetic in distressing situations
- Personal Qualities
Able to work under pressure
- Personal Qualities
Confident, assertive and resilient
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
GP trainer or trainer in training
- Skills
Ability to work early extended access sessions (e.g. 07:30 starts)
- Skills
Womens health (coils)
- Experience
Minimum 2 years post-qualification GP experience
- Other Requirements
Flexibility to work outside core hours
Job summary
6 Sessions per week.
The successful GP will join our progressive clinical team at Thornton Road Surgery, a friendly and vibrant practice serving a diverse and supportive local community in Croydon.The role offers a balanced mix of face-to-face consultations and telephone appointments, ensuring excellent continuity of care while allowing flexible working styles. The GP will contribute to the management of blood test results and clinical documents, supported by an experienced administrative workflow team who process and streamline the majority of incoming tasksmeaning GPs handle only a small, clinically focused number of actions each day. Our well-established network of clinical pharmacists provides further support with prescribing, medication queries, and repeat prescription management, allowing you to focus on high-quality patient care. The postholder will have the opportunity to lead on key disease areas (monitoring trends in the Quality and Outcomes Framework, treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse patient list, including practice-based commissioning, patient participation and health promotion.
Supported by the clinical and management teams, the postholder will work as one of the GPs within Thornton Road & Valley Park Surgery, while also contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team across the Bourne Health Partnership.
Main duties of the job
In accordance with the practice timetable, you will undertake clinical sessions consisting of face-to-face consultations, telephone consultations, clinical triage, queries, home visits, repeat prescription signing, test result actioning, and medical reports. Consultations are typically 10 minutes.
About us
Thornton Road & Valley Park Surgery, part of the Bourne Health Partnership, is a friendly, well-established two-site GP practice in Croydon delivering high-quality NHS primary care to a diverse population of approximately 19,500 patients. Operating from our Thornton Road site and the Valley Park Healthy Living Centre, we are a modern and forward-thinking practice rated Good by the CQC.
Our teams work collaboratively across both sites and are committed to compassionate, efficient and innovative patient care. As a growing practice within a large and supportive partnership, we offer opportunities for development, leadership and involvement in service improvement.
Our Multidisciplinary Team Includes:
GP Partners and Salaried GPs, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Clinical Pharmacists, , First Contact Physiotherapists, Mental Health Practitioners, and an experienced management and administrative team.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £11,500 £12,500 per session
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Protected CPD time
- Supportive induction and mentorship
- Opportunities for leadership roles, portfolio work and clinical development
- Flexible working considered
- Strong MDT support with regular clinical meetings
- EMIS clinical system
We appreciate the interest of all applicants in this opportunity. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we identify a suitable candidate before the advertised closing date. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Details
- Date posted: 24 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £11,500 to £12,500 a session Depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: A5927-26-0011
- Job locations: Thornton Road Surgery, 299 Thornton Road, Croydon, CR0 3EW, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
The successful GP will join our progressive clinical team at Thornton Road Surgery, a friendly and vibrant practice serving a diverse and supportive local community in Croydon. The role offers a balanced mix of face-to-face consultations and telephone appointments, ensuring excellent continuity of care while allowing flexible working styles. The GP will contribute to the management of blood test results and clinical documents, supported by an experienced administrative workflow team who process and streamline the majority of incoming tasks meaning GPs handle only a small, clinically focused number of actions each day. Our well-established network of clinical pharmacists provides further support with prescribing, medication queries, and repeat prescription management, allowing you to focus on high-quality patient care. The postholder will have the opportunity to lead on key disease areas (monitoring trends in the Quality and Outcomes Framework, treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse patient list, including practice-based commissioning, patient participation and health promotion.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
You will be required to
- Act upon QOF alerts and prompts during routine consultations
- Provide GP services in line with PMS contract requirements
- Undertake Duty Doctor and Paperwork Doctor sessions on a rota basis
- Support extended hours access when required
- Provide cross-site cover across Thornton Road, Valley Park and other Bourne Health Partnership practices when needed
- Assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients appropriately
- Provide preventative health care and lifestyle advice
- Support patients referred by nursing staff
- Provide certification in line with NHS regulations
- Adhere to local and national prescribing guidelines
- Make autonomous clinical decisions regarding presenting problems
- Maintain clear and accurate electronic clinical records
- Participate in audits and quality improvement activities
- Generate computer-based prescriptions
- Undertake all routine duties associated with general practice
Additional Responsibilities
- Maintain a Personal Development Plan aligned with practice goals
- Participate in the training of nurses, GP trainees and medical students
- Support administrative and clinical colleagues
- Attend clinical, prescribing, palliative care and practice meetings
- Chair or present during clinical meetings when required
- Deliver enhanced services and undertake training to support them
- Participate in practice-based commissioning, demand management and peer review
- Ensure compliance with deadlines for QOF, LCS and audit returns
- Take on additional duties as required to support the organisation
This list is not exhaustive, and all team members should be prepared to accept additional, or surrender existing duties, to enable the efficient running of the organisation.
Key Relationships
Internal
Members of the Senior Management team
Members of the Partnership Board
Colleagues within The Bourne Partnership
External
Suppliers of services
Other GP practices and practice groups
Other external organisations
Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information
Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff, and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. Post holders must not, without prior permission, disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person, those staff will be liable to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 1998 also renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information. Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005, post holders must apply the organisations FOI procedure if they receive a written request for information.
Information Governance
All staff must comply with information governance requirements. These includes statutory responsibilities (such as compliance with the Data Protection Act), following national guidance (such as the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice) and compliance with local policies and procedures (such as the Trust's Confidentiality policy). Staff are responsible for any personal information (belonging to staff or patients) that they access and must ensure it is stored, processed, and forwarded in a secure and appropriate manner
Equal Opportunities
Post holders must at all times fulfil their responsibilities with regard to The Bourne Partnerships Equal Opportunities Policy and equality laws.
Health and Safety
All post holders have a responsibility, under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and subsequently published regulations, to ensure that The Bourne Partnerships health and safety policies and procedures are complied with to maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors, and employees.
Infection Control
All post holders have a personal obligation to act to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). They must attend mandatory training in Infection Control and be compliant with all measures required to reduce HCAIs. All post holders must comply with the Partnerships Infection Control Policies, including those that apply to their duties, such as Hand Decontamination Policy and Personal Protective Equipment Policy. Risk Management All post holders have a responsibility to report risks such as clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly. They are expected to be familiar with The Bourne Partnerships use of risk assessments to predict and control risk, as well as the incident reporting system for learning from mistakes and near misses in order to improve services. Post holders must also attend training identified by their manager or stated to be mandatory.
Flexible Working
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern and multiple sites so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
Post holders have a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Sustainability
It is the responsibility of all staff to minimise the environmental impact by recycling wherever possible, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use, minimising water usage and reporting faults promptly.
Smoking Policy
The Bourne Partnership is committed to providing a healthy and safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors. Staff are therefore not permitted to smoke on organisational property.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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