Lordswood Medical Practice

GP Maternity Cover

The closing date is 14 November 2025

Job summary

SystmOne, Accurx Total Triage and Ardens Template embedded practice.

- We are a 3 site GP practice with a single M-number and would expect the post-holder to work across all 3 sites.

- A team of 7 Partners and 10 Salaried GPs as well as 5 Paramedics (who cover the majority of home visits), a team of Clinical Pharmacist and a very supportive team of Nurses, HCAs and Phlebotomists

- An excellent skilled admin team and highly supportive management team working across all three sites

- Is part of a forward thinking, supportive PCN with a well established and rapidly growing clinical team

- Typical clinic includes 14 patients per clinic with a small amount of clinical admin.

- Majority of prescriptions are managed by our prescribing team along with much of our docman being managed by our workflow team.

- It is rarely required to do a home visit as these are typically undertaken by our paramedics.

- We are a clinician led total triage practice and allocate the Oncall and triage sessions equally and fairly amongst our GP workforce.

- A growing group list size of 25,013 patients

- Rated good with outstanding in well-led by CQC

- High QOF and Universal Offer achievement year on year

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Main duties of the job

We offer lots of learning opportunities within the practice and have multiple GPs with extended roles (including Dermatology, MSK, Diabetes, Womens health) and would be happy to support and encourage GPs to pursue their interests.

We are a teaching practice and have 3rd and 4th year UoB medical Students along with GP Registrar trainees.Lordswood is also a registered research practice undertaking studies with NIHR

We are looking for a Salaried GP who shares our values of offering high quality patient centered care. In return we can offer:

Sessional rate depending on experience and transferable skills

Flexible number of working sessions between 4 8 per week

Flexibility with the working day

Regular weekly admin time built into the rota

Teaching opportunities with registrars and under-graduates

Free parking at all sites

The opportunity for supported CPD including regular clinical and team meetings

About us

SystmOne, Accurx Total Triage and Ardens Template embedded practice.

We are a 3 site GP practice with a single M-number and would expect the post-holder to work across all 3 sites.

Typical clinic includes 14 patients per clinic with a small amount of clinical admin.

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Details

Date posted

30 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

A3470-25-0013

Job locations

54 Lordswood Road

Harborne

Birmingham

West Midlands

B17 9DB


Job description

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion

Triage patients presenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person

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 and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education

Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements

Delivering enhanced services

Check, manage & process patient test results

Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines

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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis

Job description

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion

Triage patients presenting to the surgery by telephone, online and in person

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 and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies and education

Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements

Delivering enhanced services

Check, manage & process patient test results

Refer patients to secondary care and/or relevant organisations and internally within the PCN (eg to additional roles members of the PCN team) as required

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible) in line with local and national guidelines

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 the duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care in a surgery on a PCN basis

Person Specification

Responsibilities

Essential

  • Clinical 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 clinician led accurx total triage, face to face consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results, patient referral letters NHS/private, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner
  • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
  • Recording clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Collecting data for audit purposes;
  • Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written or paper prescriptions whenever possible)
  • Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
  • 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

Responsibilities

Essential

  • Clinical 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 clinician led accurx total triage, face to face consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results, patient referral letters NHS/private, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner
  • Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
  • Recording clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards
  • Collecting data for audit purposes;
  • Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written or paper prescriptions whenever possible)
  • Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines.
  • In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within 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).

Additional information

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Lordswood Medical Practice

Address

54 Lordswood Road

Harborne

Birmingham

West Midlands

B17 9DB


Employer's website

https://lordswood.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lordswood Medical Practice

Address

54 Lordswood Road

Harborne

Birmingham

West Midlands

B17 9DB


Employer's website

https://lordswood.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Director

Sharon Dyer

sharon.dyer9@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

30 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

A3470-25-0013

Job locations

54 Lordswood Road

Harborne

Birmingham

West Midlands

B17 9DB


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