Salaried GP for Urgent Treatment Centres
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle, North West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust based in Carlisle. The advertised salary is £100,000 to £130,000. Applications close on 16 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are seeking a motivated salaried General Practitioners (GP) with an interest in Urgent Care to join our team working across the Urgent Treatment Ce...
We actively encourage applications from GPs who wish to combine UTC work with ongoing GP practice work, enabling successful candidates to maintain their core general practice commitments alongside their Urgent Care role. Flexible working arrangements are available, making this an ideal opportunity for GPs seeking a varied and sustainable portfolio career.
- Provide expert clinical care across our Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting safe and effective urgent care delivery.
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes.
- Play an active role in the wider unplanned care programme, including departmental meetings, multidisciplinary discussions, teaching sessions, and audit reviews.
- Take part in audit and quality improvement activity, supporting evidence-based practice and service development
There will also be opportunity to actively contribute to the teaching and training of junior doctors, medical students, and trainee advanced practitioners.
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Essential: - Hold appropriate medical qualification to practice medicine in the UK; - Fully registered with General Medical Council with current Licence to Practise; - Hold a certified GP qualification (or within 6 months of qualification); - Registered on a regional Performers list with no restrictions to practise
Desirable: - Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty
Essential: - Primary Care - Ability to diagnose and manage common medical conditions; - Excellent verbal, written and electronic communication skills; - Ability to safely and confidently prioritise patients presenting problems; - Ability to identify and assess complex problems; - Good organisational skills; - Knowledge of local services; - Recent general practice experience; - Experience of telephone consultations; - Ability to sign post to allied services
Desirable: - Understanding current issues within Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty; - Experience of minor injury assessment, management to include x-ray interpretation, manipulation and joint relocation; - Previous experience of UTC working
Essential: - Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the service.; - Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
Desirable: - Experience of audit management
Essential: - Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
Desirable: - Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates; - Teaching of non-medical health professionals.; - Educational Qualification
Essential: - Experience of, and commitment to medical audit.; - Experience of research and Clinical Governance
Desirable: - Ability to supervise postgraduate research; - Publications in referred journals
Essential: - Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs; - Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills; - Team loyalty; - Positive approach to lessons learnt; - Confident approach without being arrogant
Desirable: - IT Skills; - Presentation skills
Essential: - Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.; - Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.; - Participation in appropriate peer review processes.
Desirable: - Continued Professional / Personal Development
Essential: - Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team; - Ability to travel to fulfil the requirements of the post; - Positive approach to change; - Flexible to service needs
How this role compares
We hold 1,145 NHS vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 91% of them.
There are 12,688 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,530 of them in North West.
You have 26 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 54 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has 70 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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