Job Summary
Pelham Medical Practice is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and forward‑thinking Salaried GP to join our welcoming and supportive team. The position offers three days per week (six clinical sessions), with Thursday and Friday required and flexibility regarding the third working day. A competitive salary is available and will be negotiated according to experience.
Pelham are an ambitious, well‑organised and professional GP Practice, who have a growing patient population and are looking to develop a new 3‑storey (22 clinical rooms) medical centre with planning permission secured in February 2025. Pelham is a GP training practice and delivers high‑quality care to 15,500 patients.
Pelham are the lead practice within the Gravesend Central PCN; we encourage specialist interests, offering CPD support and participation in regular clinical and MDT meetings.
The Practice has 4 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs and both our surgeries benefit from ample free parking.
The closing date is 26 June 2026.
Main duties of the job
You will manage a case load and will work autonomously on a day‑to‑day basis.
* Face‑to‑face and telephone consultations
* Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
* Administrative tasks – dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required
* Cover all clinical management of in‑surgery patients as appropriate, including initiating investigations, reviewing results and making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
* Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients
About Us
* The Practice operates across two sites and has a patient list of 15,500
* The Practice has 4 Partners and 3 salaried GPs
* The GPs are supported by a professional and caring nursing team as well as an ANP, Paramedic, PA, FCP and Clinical Pharmacists
* We are supported by our GP Federation who provide a Paramedic home visiting team
* The Practice achieved a Good rating in all 5 service questions
* We are a GP training practice and look to support the development and training of all our clinical and admin staff
* We offer a number of enhanced services and encourage specialist interests
* The practice is passionate about preventative and lifestyle medicine
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.
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post‑holder will make themselves 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; developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols; 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 and complying with QoF requirements; compiling and issuing computer‑generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand‑written prescriptions whenever possible); prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) 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.
Other Responsibilities Within the Organisation
* Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
* A commitment to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based best practice
* Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
* Contributing to the development of computer‑based patient records
* Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read‑coding patient data
* Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
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. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post‑holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They 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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to): using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines, awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, good practice guidelines, providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements, correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients, management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances), hand hygiene standards for self and others, managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure, management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice, active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person, identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process, making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes, monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand‑cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment, lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager, safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal, maintenance of own clean working environment, using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management, actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised, keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers, undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually), correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use, maintenance of sterile environments, demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 recognises 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‑judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal / Professional Development
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post‑holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include: participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development; taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality
The post‑holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will: alert other team members to issues of quality and risk; assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision; 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; work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs; effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
The post‑holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to: communicate effectively with other team members; communicate effectively with patients and carers; recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
The Post‑holder Will
* Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
* Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
* Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical degree
* Full registration with GMC
* Certification of Completion of Training (JCPTGP/PMETB)
* Inclusion on Performers List
* Evidence of a commitment to on‑going personal & professional development
Desirable
* MRCGP
Personal Skills and Qualities
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, both written and verbally
* Good organisational skills
* Time management skills
* Able to work under pressure
* Working on own initiative
* IT skills (including word processing and database work) as relevant to General Practice
* Committed to quality and patient satisfaction
* Committed to equal opportunities
* Team worker
Desirable
* EMIS Web
* Docman
Experience
* Understanding the role of medical services in a wider public health agenda
* Knowledge of the demographic characteristics that affect health and health care in the area
* Understanding current NHS policies
* Experience of audit and improving care for patients
Desirable
* Experience of working in primary care in an area with significant health problems
* Experience of providing primary care in and out of hours
* Development of areas of clinical expertise
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 see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Pelham Medical Practice
The Grange, 17 Pelham Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 0HN, United Kingdom
St. Gregorys Surgery, 116 St. Gregorys Crescent, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4JW, United Kingdom
Contact
Practice Manager: Tina Khanna
Email: tina.khanna@nhs.net
Phone: 01474355331
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