General Practitioner with Enhanced Role in Frailty
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £11,000.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £11000.00 a session |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4TA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0008-WKF271 |
Summary
Provide clinical care using expert knowledge and developed clinical skills to ensure that the quality of patient care is maintained at the highest standard. To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of your consultant colleagues whom you are covering. To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care. Utilise expert knowledge to act as specialist resource and increasing the awareness of frailty in primary care to enhance standards of care. Ensure the principles of clinical governance and risk management are applied to clinical practice within the speciality To participate actively in audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change. To take an active responsibility for teaching, training and supervision. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes. To provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues. To undertake an annual job plan review with Clinical Lead for Local Care/Frailty and Director of Operations To take part in safeguarding discussions as part of the MDT where required. Discussions will be supported by WKPCs Head of Quality and Governance and the GP practice.