Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a GP to join our team to cover 5 to 7 sessions per week in a friendly, dynamic, and forward-thinking, single-site surgery in Harrogate. We have an outstanding clinical and nursing team, situated in modern, purpose-built premises in the heart of this historic Spa town.

Strayside Health is a recently formed practice (following the successful merger of East Parade and Park Parade Surgeries in April 2025). Before the merger, both practices worked closely together for a number of years, sharing our Nurse Team and back-office staff (medical secretaries, data quality and administration teams).

Our newly merged practice is progressive and keen to embrace change whilst maintaining the traditional values of patient centred general practice.

We have a great team ethos in our workforce, with strong staff retention.

We are friendly and supportive with a focus on staff wellbeing and for many years have continued the tradition of our valuable daily GP coffee meeting.

Routine clinics compromise of a mix of telephone and 15-minute face-to-face consultation appointments, including 25% of routine surgery time being protected for clinical admin and a defined number of appointments per routine session.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who share our values
and are ready to embrace the challenges of the future with our team. We can be
flexible about start dates and informal enquiries are welcome.

Main duties of the job
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, eConsultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Actioning a share of blood results and incoming clinical documents, both paper and electronic

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers

Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Offering preventative advice

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

Referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes

Prescribing in accordance with the ICB or practice 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.

About us
Situated in the beautiful spa town of Harrogate close to the Yorkshire Dales, we serve an urban and suburban population of just under 16,000 patients.

We are committed to providing high quality primary care. There are six GP Partners and nine Salaried GPs with a range of skills and interests.

We have developed innovative systems to manage our workload. This includes having a shared Clinical Administration Team, Data Quality Team and Medical Secretary Service. These teams are shared amongst both practices at Mowbray Square Medical Centre, giving us a strong infrastructure to support GPs and safely reduce administrative workload.

Our highly skilled and experienced Nurse Team consists of a Practice Nurse, Nurse Associate and two Healthcare Assistants, who are led by our Lead Nurse.

We have formal responsibility for three care homes for the elderly and two learning disability care homes. Named GPs offer a fixed regular commitment to these homes under a local ICB scheme.

Nominated GP leads for safeguarding, QOF, finance, patient services, womens health, prescribing, palliative care, diabetes and nursing care ensures a structured supportive system across the practice.

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification attached to this job advert.

Informal visits are welcomed to the practice. Please contact Emma Keating (Practice Manager) to arrange this should you wish.

Person Specification
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential

• Broad range of IT skills
• Able to use own initiative and work without supervision
• Able to effectively co-lead a team and the service
• Able to cope with and effectively organise the workload
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and non-verbally daily
• Practical problem-solving skills
• Ability to motivate and inspire self and others
• Accurate written and verbal communication of information
• Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people affected by adverse life events
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Ability to ask sensitively about information needs
• Ability to retrieve and consolidate information from a wide range of sources and in different formats
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to show evidence of leadership
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
• Familiarity with issues of service organisation, transformation and development
• Adhere to policies around confidentiality, health & safety, equality & diversity
• Calm and objective
• Confident, yet approachable
• Recognition of own limitations
• Demonstrates enthusiasm
• Non-judgemental, respectful of others privacy, needs & beliefs
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to address and work to overcome any equality, diversity and rights of service users
• Identify and mitigate potential risks to health, safety and policy

Experience
Essential

• Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and service improvement activities
• Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership

Qualifications
Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical degree
• GMC registration

Desirable

• MRCGP
• Evidence of continued role development
• Teaching qualification

Other Requirements
Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health Clearance

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.