Lead Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

LEAD SALARIED GP:

Overview

The Lead Salaried GP is a pivotal leadership role within the practice, providing clinical and professional leadership while continuing to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. The postholder will combine hands-on general practice with protected leadership time, influencing the strategic direction, culture, and future model of care within the practice and across PICS.

The role plays a central part in establishing and sustaining a quality-driven, supportive workforce culture that reflects PICS values, ensuring excellent outcomes for patients while actively supporting the development, wellbeing, and progression of staff.

Cultural and Professional Leadership

• Demonstrating and developing the qualities and behaviours that reflect the best of General Practice and the values of PICS, including being patient-focused, evidence-based, inclusive, and empowering.
• Establishing and sustaining a positive, supportive practice culture that promotes high standards of care, mutual respect, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Creating the conditions where individuals and teams are supported to realise their full potential, with a clear sense of stewardship and responsibility towards patient care and service sustainability.
• Acting as a visible clinical and professional figurehead at practice level, bringing teams together around a shared vision, values, and model of care.
• Being a role model for flexibility, professionalism, leadership, and commitment.
• Working closely with Practice Managers and the wider management team to integrate clinical and operational leadership for the benefit of patients, staff, and the organisation.

Operational and Clinical Leadership

• TheLead Salaried GPis responsible forensuring that:
• Patient safety and quality of care are the overriding priorities, with effective systems, processes, and governance in place to support this.
• Clinical governance arrangements are robust, embedded, and continuously improved at practice level, aligned to PICS governance structures.
• Clinical meetings are chaired effectively, recorded, and communicated to the wider team.
• Regular engagement takes place with practice management, the senior medical team within PICS (including the Medical Director and fellowLead GPs/Clinical Leads), and relevant organisational forums.
• Practice staff are supported with clinical advice, escalation, and decision-making asrequired.
• QOF and enhanced services are planned, reviewed, and optimised to maximise quality outcomes and achievement.
• Data, workflow, and population health systems are used effectively to support safe, efficient, and proactive patient care.
• Safeguarding lead role (this can be delegated ifappropriate toanother clinical team member)
• Day to day Information governance role

Service Development, Innovation and Change

• Leading and supporting service transformation initiatives within the practice, ensuring changes are clinically safe, evidence-based, and aligned with PICS values.
• Playing a key role in the implementation and ongoing development of a Total Triage model, drawing on learning from other PICS practices.
• Supporting innovation, including the introduction of AI-enabled recall and population health management systems.
• Shaping and embedding new ways of working that improve access, safety, sustainability, and staff experience.
• Working collaboratively with clinical, managerial, and operational colleagues to deliver change effectively.

Professional Leadership, Education and Workforce Development

• Leading the clinical service and its development in line with contractual requirements and commissioner expectations.
• Line managing all Salaried GPs and the Lead Nurse, including:
• Recruitment,selection, induction, and retention
• Annual appraisal, objective setting, and performance development
• Managing absence, conduct, and performance in partnership with HR
• Ensuring compliance with statutory, mandatory, and professional training
• Supporting professional development, education, and mentorship within the clinical team, including early-career GPs and the wider MDT.
• Contributing to, and supporting the development of, GP education and training, including future ambitions to introduce GP Registrar training within the practice.
• Working with the Practice Manager to ensure safe and effective clinical rota cover and contingency planning.
• Working with the CQC Registered Manager, Practice Manager, and Governance Team to prepare for inspections and respond to recommendations.

Clinical Governance

• The post holder will be a member of the PICS Clinical Governance Committee and will:
• Ensure ongoing clinical compliance with best practice standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and support a programme of clinical audit and quality improvement within the practice.
• Ensure audit learning is embedded and contributes to improved outcomes.
• Take overall responsibility formaintaininghigh clinical standards across the practice.
• Participate in the management of clinical complaints, incidents, and safeguarding matters.
• Act as, or support, the Practice Safeguarding Lead for children and vulnerable adults.

Budgetary responsibility

• Holding responsibility for the clinical elements of the service budget, working with the Practice Manager and PICS tomaintainfiscal discipline.
• Supporting opportunities for income generation, efficient use of resources, and value for money whilemaintainingquality of care.

Working across PICS and External Engagement

• Representingthe practice locally within the PCN and with key external stakeholders.
• Contributing to PICS-wide clinical, operational, and educational collaboration, supporting the development of cross-practice networks and shared learning.

Clinically active

• Maintaining regular patient-facing clinical sessions to ensure credibility, continuity of care, and informed leadership.
• Using clinical practice to test, refine, and improve operational processes and models of care.

Personal Development & CPD

• Actively engaging in personal professional development, appraisal, and revalidation.
• Participating in leadership development, quality improvement, coaching, mentoring, and system leadership opportunities, supported by PICS.
• Engaging in regular support and development meetings with the Medical Director and senior leaders.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

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

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Whyburn Medical Practice

The Health Centre, Curtis Street

Hucknall

Nottinghamshire

NG15 7JE

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)