GP Salaried – Fairhill Medical Centre
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Kingston GP Chambers
Salaried GP - Fairhill Medical Practice
The closing date is 06 July 2025
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Job summary
Kingston GP Chambers (the GP Federation) is supporting Fairhill Medical Practice in Kingston Upon Thames who are seeking an experienced Salaried GP to join its caring and supportive team. We require 8 clinical sessions per week, starting September 2025.
Fairhill are a 3 Partner University Practice based across three sites in the leafy suburb of Kingston Upon Thames. The practice has a list size of over 23,000 patients and includes a branch at Kingston University.
If you are looking for the security and benefits of being salaried and would like to join our team. Please get in touch and we would welcome a conversation about the role and our practices.
Some of the excellent benefits include (but are not limited to) the following:-
- Competitive salary dependent on experience
- Workload in line with BMA Safer Working Guidance including capped admin, prescriptions and appointments
- No duty doctor or weekend working
- Multi disciplinary team including First Contact Physios, clinical pharmacist, dietician, etc
- Optional own private work with all fees passed to Doctor
- Secretarial and administrative team to manage referrals, and other admin tasks
- Excellent development and management opportunities
- Low local visiting
- Open to flexible working and job share considered
- Regular educational talks
- NHS Pension
- Generous annual leave and study leave
Main duties of the job
- The delivery of appropriate medical care to patients
- Prescribing adhering to local and national guidance
- Maintaining accurate clinical records in conjunction with good practice, policy and guidance
- Working collaboratively, accepting an equal share of the workload
- Adhering to best practice recommended through clinical guidelines and the audit process
- Contribution to the successful implementation of continuous improvement and quality initiatives
- Attending and contributing effectively to service/practice meetings as required
- Ensuring personal compliance with the appraisal process
- Preparing for and completing the revalidation process
- Commitment to self-learning and contributing to an ethos of continuing professional development across the service/practice team
About us
Kingston GP Chambers is a Federation of all NHS General Practices within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was founded in 2008 as a limited company whose shareholders are all 20 GP Practices within Kingston. The company is led by a Board of Directors who are also GP Partners in their own Practices within Kingston.
Kingston GP Chambers has worked collaboratively with both secondary care and the private sector. At present we provide community clinics for Dermatology, Urology, Neurology, Dementia and Diabetes.
In addition, Kingston GP Chambers are at the forefront of improving patient access to primary care. We deliver a comprehensive extended hours service offering GP appointments across three hubs in the evenings Monday to Friday, over the weekend and on Bank Holidays.Kingston GP Chambers has the ability to respond rapidly, and we have continued to demonstrate the capability to provide high-quality, innovative and timely solutions to improving patient care and experience.
We work closely alongside the other GP Federations in Southwest London to continue the government's five-year forward plan and deliver patient services in the community. We aim to continue to grow as we are increasingly recognised as the provider of choice for extended, enhanced and urgent GP services.
We also expect an increasing role as we support, reinforce and develop the position of general practice as the core building block for an increasing range of jointly-provided services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Practice rota the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Engaging with and complying with the collection of data for QOF and enhanced services in consultations
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
- Prescribing in accordance with the locality prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Completion of a Vocational GP Training scheme
Desirable
- Certificate in post graduate clinical training
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with a license to practice and entry on the GP
- Register Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice /
- Certificate Confirming Eligibility for General Practice Registration (CEGPR), or equivalent Included on a Medical Performers List or eligible.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Academic excellence (prizes, merits, distinctions etc.) MRCGP Diplomas relevant to primary care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
For questions about the job, contact:
Work Force Development Lead
Mark Mensah
02034058631
Employer details
Kingston GP Chambers
Fairhill Medical Practice
81 Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT27PX
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