Lead GP in Urgent Access Primary Care Service (UAPC)

Our Lead GP provides senior clinical leadership for the Urgent Access Primary Care (UAPC) service, ensuring safe, effective, high quality, patient centred urgent care. This hands on role combines clinical support, governance, service development, and system-wide collaboration to maintain high standards in a fast paced environment. The postholder is a visible senior clinician, offering expert advice and oversight for complex, high risk and time critical cases, including CMDU pathways where commissioned. They support safe decision making, patient flow, risk management, and consistent application of pathways and governance. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, the Lead GP promotes collaborative practice, clinical excellence, workforce development, and continuous quality improvement. They provide supervision, mentorship, and leadership while fostering a culture of learning, openness, and patient safety. The role also contributes to service design, workforce planning, and integration across primary, urgent, community, and emergency care to ensure seamless patient care and effective use of resources.

Provide senior clinical leadership and oversight across the Urgent Access Primary Care (UAPC) service, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care. Act as an accessible senior clinician, offering real-time support and guidance for complex, high-risk, and time-critical clinical presentations. Support clinical decision-making, patient flow, triage, admission avoidance, and appropriate use of urgent care pathways. Promote high standards of patient safety, prescribing practice, infection prevention and control, and clinical risk management. Provide clinical supervision, mentorship, and professional support to multidisciplinary colleagues, supporting workforce development and continuous learning. Contribute to service development, workforce planning, and the ongoing improvement of UAPC pathways and models of care. Work closely with operational and clinical leaders to deliver quality, performance, and contractual objectives. Support effective integration and partnership working with general practice, community services, ambulance services, emergency departments, and other healthcare providers. Maintain accurate clinical documentation and promote adherence to organisational health, safety, and wellbeing policies. Act as a role model for professional, ethical, and evidence based clinical practice, fostering a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement.