Job summary
Queens Park Health Centre in Bedford are seeking a salaried GP to join the team for 6 sessions per week for a 12 month fixed term contract. The successful applicant will be an enthusiastic and flexible team player with the drive to develop specialist interests which will complement the practice vision, and the ambition to take the practice further. As a key member of the clinical team you will provide primary healthcare services to patients in all clinical settings.
Main duties of the job
- Make professionally autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self referred or referred internally within the organisation.
- Receive patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and make assessments of their health care needs.
- Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Develop a care plan for health with the patient.
- Provide advice and health education.
- Admit and discharge patients to and from caseload respectively and refer them to other care providers internally or externally as appropriate.
- Consult with patients in surgery and at home visits.
- Participate in on-call duties, telephone consultations, answering patient queries, check and sign repeat prescriptions and deal with queries, test results, paperwork.
- Keep up to date with medical developments, new drugs, treatments and medications, including complementary medicine.
- Complete medical reports and non-NHS work.
About us
We are a practice with 22,600 patients on three sites.
- SystmOne clinical system
- Rated Good by CQC
- High QOF achievers
- Friendly nursing and administrative support
- Development of special interests encouraged
- Training supported
- Attractive salary and terms and conditions
We are active members of our primary care network and we welcome collaborative working. Our vision is progressive, we are actively looking for new opportunities and we are a training practice. We grow our own staff and are developing advanced nurse practitioners and healthcare support workers. Bedfordshire is a great location and has a reputation for excellent schools, beautiful villages and countryside, close to Milton Keynes for shopping, and 35 minutes from London by train. Benefits include;
- 6 weeks (pr) holiday entitlement + 1 week study leave
- NHS pension scheme
Informal enquiries/visits welcome.
Details
- Date posted: 17 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 12 months
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 29231-3
- Job locations: 23c Carlisle Road, Queens Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 4HR, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Membership of a recognised medical indemnity organisation
- Be eligible to work in the UK
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- MRCGP
- Be on the NHSE medical performers list
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