Job summary
Rural Warwickshire North Primary Care Network (PCN) is seeking a dedicated ARRS GP to join our expanding team on a fixed-term contract.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across our network practices, delivering high-quality primary care services to our diverse patient population. The role is being recruited under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) and offers the chance to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will provide GP services in line with local and national guidance, supporting both routine and urgent care. You will also contribute to wider PCN projects and work closely with other ARRS staff such as clinical pharmacists, paramedics, and care coordinators.
We offer a collaborative and welcoming environment, with opportunities to contribute to service development and patient care innovation.
Please note that:
- This post is offered under the ARRS scheme and is a fixed-term contract.
- This job posting is not offered for NHS sponsorship; applicants must have the existing full right to work in the UK.
- Access to your own car will be required to travel across practices within the PCN.
Main duties of the job
- Provide routine and urgent GP consultations, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
- Manage patients with acute and long-term conditions in line with local and national guidance.
- Undertake home visits and telephone/video consultations as required.
- Prescribe safely, effectively, and in accordance with national and local prescribing guidelines.
- Refer patients to secondary care or community services when clinically appropriate.
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary PCN team, including pharmacists, paramedics, social prescribers, care coordinators, and health & wellbeing coaches.
- Contribute to proactive population health management and the delivery of PCN service specifications.
- Support practice and PCN initiatives such as enhanced access, long-term condition management, and QOF/IIF achievement.
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with NHS and GMC standards.
- Take part in audit, quality improvement, and clinical governance activities.
- Participate in PCN and practice meetings, contributing to service development and best practice.
- Provide supervision, mentoring, or clinical support to ARRS and other staff where appropriate.
About us
We are a Primary Care Network (PCN) of five practices working together with a range of local providers, including primary care, community services, social care, and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalized, coordinated health and social care to their local populations.
Our PCN comprises of 35k+ patients over the five practices, making us large enough to provide resilience and support the development of integrated teams.
Link to our Website:https://ruralwarwickshirenorthpcn.nhs.uk/
The aims of a networks are to:
- Protect, improve, and extend local General Practice through greater organisational scale to provide convenient high quality, comprehensive and integrated services.
- Enhance the skills and flexibility of the General Practice workforce to meet population and service needs with programmes of continuing professional development.
- Work and collaborate with others to innovate in service provision, building on new technologies and recognising lifestyle choices of service users in the way in which they wish to access care.
- Ensure that all we do is valuable, both for the taxpayer and service user and for those investing their time and money into the PCN.
- Operate ethically, with accountability, probity, and fairness at the heart of the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver safe, effective, and evidence-based clinical care to patients across the PCN.
- Undertake consultations (face-to-face, telephone, or online), including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
- Manage both acute and long-term conditions, providing continuity of care and personalised management plans.
- Prescribe appropriately in accordance with national and local guidelines.
- Undertake home visits where clinically required.
- Provide timely referrals to secondary care and community services as appropriate.
- Contribute to the PCNs contractual service delivery (e.g., Enhanced Access, IIF, QOF, and Directed Enhanced Services).
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary PCN team (e.g., pharmacists, paramedics, social prescribers, care coordinators, health and wellbeing coaches) to ensure holistic care.
- Support proactive population health management, addressing health inequalities and improving patient outcomes.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely clinical records in line with GMC and NHS standards.
- Engage in audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities to support safe and effective practice.
- Participate in PCN and practice meetings, contributing to service development and innovation.
- Provide leadership, supervision, or support to other ARRS staff and trainees where appropriate.
- Keep up to date with mandatory training, appraisal, and CPD requirements to maintain GMC registration and revalidation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver safe, effective, and evidence-based clinical care to patients across the PCN.
- Undertake consultations (face-to-face, telephone, or online), including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
- Manage both acute and long-term conditions, providing continuity of care and personalised management plans.
- Prescribe appropriately in accordance with national and local guidelines.
- Undertake home visits where clinically required.
- Provide timely referrals to secondary care and community services as appropriate.
- Contribute to the PCNs contractual service delivery (e.g., Enhanced Access, IIF, QOF, and Directed Enhanced Services).
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary PCN team (e.g., pharmacists, paramedics, social prescribers, care coordinators, health and wellbeing coaches) to ensure holistic care.
- Support proactive population health management, addressing health inequalities and improving patient outcomes.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely clinical records in line with GMC and NHS standards.
- Engage in audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities to support safe and effective practice.
- Participate in PCN and practice meetings, contributing to service development and innovation.
- Provide leadership, supervision, or support to other ARRS staff and trainees where appropriate.
- Keep up to date with mandatory training, appraisal, and CPD requirements to maintain GMC registration and revalidation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The successful candidate will be a fully qualified GP with GMC registration and licence to practise, with evidence of ongoing CPD and appraisal. They will have experience of working in UK general practice, confidently managing patients with both acute and long-term conditions and prescribing safely in line with current guidance. The postholder will demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and an evidence-based approach, combined with excellent consultation and communication skills. They will be able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team, showing strong organisational and time-management abilities. A patient-centred approach is essential, along with flexibility, adaptability, and a professional, reliable, and motivated attitude. The candidate will also be committed to ongoing professional development to ensure safe, effective, and up-to-date practice. ARRS GPs will remain those individuals who have obtained the CCT within the last two years (at the point of recruitment) and who have not been previously substantively employed as a GP in general practice.
Desirable
- In addition, it would be desirable for the candidate to hold postgraduate qualifications or diplomas, such as in chronic disease management, teaching, or minor surgery, and to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Experience of working within a Primary Care Network (PCN) or as part of a multidisciplinary team would be advantageous, as would previous experience supervising or mentoring staff or students. An understanding of PCN contractual requirements, including the Impact and Investment Fund (IIF), Enhanced Access, Directed Enhanced Services (DES), and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), together with an awareness of population health and health inequalities, would further strengthen an application. We would also welcome candidates with an interest in service development and innovation, as well as those with the willingness to develop specialist clinical interests that support PCN priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The successful candidate will be a fully qualified GP with GMC registration and licence to practise, with evidence of ongoing CPD and appraisal. They will have experience of working in UK general practice, confidently managing patients with both acute and long-term conditions and prescribing safely in line with current guidance. The postholder will demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and an evidence-based approach, combined with excellent consultation and communication skills. They will be able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team, showing strong organisational and time-management abilities. A patient-centred approach is essential, along with flexibility, adaptability, and a professional, reliable, and motivated attitude. The candidate will also be committed to ongoing professional development to ensure safe, effective, and up-to-date practice. ARRS GPs will remain those individuals who have obtained the CCT within the last two years (at the point of recruitment) and who have not been previously substantively employed as a GP in general practice.
Desirable
- In addition, it would be desirable for the candidate to hold postgraduate qualifications or diplomas, such as in chronic disease management, teaching, or minor surgery, and to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Experience of working within a Primary Care Network (PCN) or as part of a multidisciplinary team would be advantageous, as would previous experience supervising or mentoring staff or students. An understanding of PCN contractual requirements, including the Impact and Investment Fund (IIF), Enhanced Access, Directed Enhanced Services (DES), and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), together with an awareness of population health and health inequalities, would further strengthen an application. We would also welcome candidates with an interest in service development and innovation, as well as those with the willingness to develop specialist clinical interests that support PCN priorities.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
