Lead General Practitioner - West Cornforth Medical Centre

Intrahealth Ltd

Lead General Practitioner - West Cornforth Medical Centre

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Intrahealth Ltd, Chilton Lane, County Durham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 4 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: a215f5bcdc994628a8bb837e1a79bfdb

Full Job Description

We offer a flexible approach to division of roles and responsibilities within our small friendly and experienced practice team. The clinical teams are also well supported by an excellent administration and management team; this allows our GPs to concentrate on clinical work. We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced GP looking to take a leading role in improving patients' outcomes especially in areas such as diabetes and contributing towards redesigning services locally by representing the practice at PCN and ICS level.

We host various trainees (GP Speciality training Registrars, Pre Reg-Pharmacists, Nursing Associate etc.) We are keen to recruit a GP who is willing to mentor some of our current trainees or students in the practice. You will be a team player who is keen to support and contribute to our program of continuous improvements and clinical meetings and work with us to ensure we maintain our high QOF results.

Furthermore, we offer:

  • Excellent salary and employment benefits, including BMA contract and NHS pension.

  • Opportunities for role progression and personal development to medical director level

  • We actively encourage participation in practice decisions and service developments.

  • We support flexible working patterns and part-time working therefore would encourage applicants who wish to combine a clinical role with other professional or personal commitments, The Practice Clinical Lead provides leadership and accountability in IntraHealth for the delivery of a safe, efficient, and reliable clinical service achieving the standards set out within the contract at its inception and to improve upon the quality of the service.


  • They may manage more than one related clinical service, so long as they are not over committed, or manage a single Practice site overseeing the clinical services running within the practice.

    The Practice lead will also be expected to provide clinical services to patients registered on the practice list as set out in the Salaried GP job specification.

    IntraHealth is one of the UKs leading provider of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.

    We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well-established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.

    We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.