We have an opportunity for an experienced GP to join our Team Up Service.
This will be for the ‘Community GP’ role, which supports the day-to-day running of the service.
This is a great way to expand your portfolio by specialising on the treatment and management our of our complex and frail patients, particularly our housebound population.
This role would be for, on average, one day per week, with the opportunity to cover sickness and holidays.
Shifts must be for the full day (2 sessions) and please note that the day starts slightly later than usual GP sessions (9am).
Main duties of the job
- Provide day-to-day clinical leadership for the Team Up service, delivering holistic care across Acute Home Visiting, Urgent Community Response, Care Homes, and Anticipatory Care.
- Manage and support care for complex patients with frailty, palliative needs, and health inequalities.
- Lead development of new specialist services for complex needs and under-served communities.
- Support clinicians with complex decision-making, including prescribing, uncertain diagnoses, clinical risk, and end of life identification.
- Develop team expertise through education, mentorship, MDT briefings, and professional development support, especially for advanced practitioners and trainees.
- Lead multidisciplinary meetings, ensuring patient-centred care and effective coordination across the organisation and care settings.
- Build a culture of continuous improvement, learning, self-managing team work alongside operational leadership.
- Develop and implement integrated care pathways, governance systems, quality improvement processes, and safe ways of working across services.
- Provide direct patient care where needed, including senior clinical triage and medical assessment for urgent home visiting services.
- Strengthen partnerships with primary care, secondary care, care homes, and community organisations to ensure seamless, high quality care delivered close to home.
About us
We are a friendly GP practice with over 70 years of history, lead by a stable forward-thinking partnership that is ready to embrace the new look of Primary Care.
We have four sites and over 45,000 patients spread across the city of Derby.
We seek someone who is keen to become a part of a growing and supportive team and is looking to work in an ambitious practice.
In return, Lister House Surgery will offer you the following benefits:
- Access to variety of NHS discounts
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details regarding this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- A vocationally trained and accredited GP with minimum 2 years post CCT experience or other clinical experience in secondary care
- Current registration with GMC
- On the GP performers list
- MRCGP
- Recognised qualification in Care of the Elderly or Frailty
- Recognised qualification in EOL
- Recognised qualification in medical education/clinical supervision
- Evidence of leadership development
Personal Qualities
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and cooperative
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Motivated and proactive
- Ability to use initiative and judgement
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure
- Confident, assertive, and resilient
Experience
- Experience working in the community
- Experience and knowledge of deprescribing
- Experience of working in Primary Care
- Experience and evidence of an interest in care of the elderly and palliative care
- Understanding of adult safeguarding and deprivation of liberty procedures
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of medical education/clinical supervision
- Working knowledge of healthcare services in Derby City and a desire to keep this up to date and expand on learning
- Knowledge, understanding, and empathy for the different cultures within our patient population, health inequalities, healthcare barriers, and educational needs which patients may face and a desire to support all patients
- Experience of project work to tackle health inequalities
- Knowledge and experience of carrying out Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Skills
- Excellent communication (written, oral, and presenting)
- Skilled in Microsoft Office software
- SystmOne Clinical System > 1 year
- The ability to understand the the competencies of others and support them to work within and at the top of those competencies. Also, to recognise the act when other are going beyond their competencies
- Ability to work effectively and provide leadership across traditional organisational and professional boundaries
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills within a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent organisational skills
- Clinical audit skills
- Leadership of service delivery/change
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.
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