Salaried GP (3-4 Clinical Sessions)

Strayside Health 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. Our surgery shares a fantastic, spacious, new purpose built leased building close to the town centre, with its own car park, with The Spa Surgery, the other practice in our two practice PCN. 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 including:

• LARC fitting
• Joint injections
• Care homes
• Long term care planning
• Chronic disease management
• Area wide NHS leadership
• Green Impact for Health practice

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, 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, women's health, prescribing, palliative care, diabetes and nursing care ensures a structured supportive system across the practice.

We have an established Care Coordinator Team who receive great feedback from patients and colleagues alike and have excellent Care Navigation skills.

Mowbray Square Primary Care Network (MSPCN) Our PCN comprises both practices which resides in the Medical Centre: Strayside Health and The Spa Surgery. It enables us to build on our established shared working. Our GP Partner, Dr Ian Dilley, is the Clinical Director for Mowbray Square PCN and works closely with the 3 other CDs representing 170,000 patients locally.

PCN achievements

• First Contact Practitioners (MSK) team: Direct booking via reception
• Pharmacy team: Two clinical Pharmacists, two Pharmacy Technicians and two Medicines Management Coordinators support the GPs workload
• Social Prescribing Link Workers: One SPLW split across the PCN
• Mental Health First Contact Practitioners

Our PCN Vision "To provide the highest standard of healthcare to our local community and maximise the health and wellbeing of both our patients and our staff."

Our PCN Mission Statement "The Mowbray Square practices will work together, using our combined skills and resources to deliver high quality, patient centred healthcare to the local population. We aim to build a resilient team, responsive to the changing needs of the community and the evolving NHS."

We will work collaboratively and innovatively while developing new opportunities for Mowbray Square patients so they can start well, live well, age well and die well.

Other health related services that use our building include a community pharmacy, a specialist travel clinic, retinal screening, NHS podiatry service, chronic pain team, community midwives and private physiotherapy.

CQC rating - Good, June 2016

Our Management Team consists of our two Practice Managers and Deputy PM to support us further.

Job Summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a GP to join our team to cover 3 to 4 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.

One of our partners is the Clinical Director of the Mowbray Square PCN, which places us in an excellent position to lead on new ways of working and maximise the benefits of close relationships with our colleagues in the allied health professions. 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.

The responsibilities will include a pro ratio share of the small number of home visits the practice does.

Routine clinics comprise 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. A job plan is available on request.

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 CCG 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.

Job Description / Responsibilities We offer our GPs:

• Daily clinicians meeting
• Bi monthly multidisciplinary clinical team meeting & significant event review
• Attendance at MDT meetings with the community team and social care (on working days)
• Three annual area wide PLT educational meetings, with protected surgery cover
• Six PCN specific educational PLT meetings with protected surgery cover
• Ongoing supervision and support from GP partners, with the opportunity for mentoring in house or externally
• Opportunity to undertake project work in study time
• Opportunity for involvement in non clinical aspects of practice management
• Membership of the NHS pension scheme
• BHSF health plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• On site car parking
• Cycle to work scheme
• NHS laptop available for individual use

Salary: £11,077 per session per annum

Annual leave entitlement: 30 days + 8 bank holidays (pro rata)

Study leave entitlement: 1 week per year (pro rata)

Person Specification 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
• 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 address and work to overcome any equality, diversity and rights of service users
• Identify and mitigate potential risks to health, safety and policy
• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health Clearance

Qualifications Essential

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