Fixed-term Salaried GP roles
The closing date is 31 July 2026
Job summary
Lower Clapton General Practice is looking to recruit two new salaried GPs, initially on a 6 month fixed term contract, to join our vibrant, expanding Practice in Hackney, East London.
Main duties of the job
General Practitioner Duties. We are a friendly, supportive and innovative team in a large training Practice 15,000 > patients. High quality of clinical care with excellent QoF and Local Enhanced Service results. Daily huddles, case discussions, regular MDTs and practice meetings. Monthly in-house education sessions. Regular one to one mentoring sessions with senior clinician. EMISWeb Practice. Opportunities for development: Sexual health, minor surgery, etc. Active members of the CCG, LMC and GP Confederation & PCN. Teaching Practice, opportunity to teach Medical students. Administrative support. Dedicated Mentor. Competitive and Negotiable Salary.
About us
We have a dedicated multidisciplinary clinical team which includes General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Advance Nurse Practitioner, Health Care Assistants, Clinical Pharmacist, PCN ARRs Roles and also a team of Reception and Administration staff. We have moved into an amazing new building incorporating a very special building Google Portico Hackney which brings joy to patients and staff and provides us with further opportunities to innovate.
Job responsibilities
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, 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
- 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.
- Completing clinical templates resulting from QOF and LSC requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified General Practitioner
Desirable
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website. 
