About this role
Job summary
The SAS GP is a salaried General Practitioner within Bevan Community Benefit Society's Special Allocation Scheme (SAS), a GP-led primary care service for patients who cannot safely be managed in mainstream general practice.
The role is intended as a sessional post, with the agreed number of sessions based on service need. Working across West, the post holder will provide comprehensive GP services to a small but highly complex, high-risk patient cohort. This includes individuals with violent or threatening behaviours, complex safeguarding issues, significant mental health needs, neurodiversity, substance misuse, homelessness or severe social exclusion.
The SAS GPs role is to deliver firm, compassionate and trauma-informed primary care in a way that is neurodiversity-affirming, offering continuity and proactive engagement to stabilise patients, reduce crisis escalations, and support their eventual safe rehabilitation into mainstream services where possible.
The service carries a higher level of clinical risk ownership and system responsibility than standard GP services, demanding strong clinical judgement, safeguarding leadership and multi-agency collaboration.
Main duties of the job
Provide the full scope of GP primary care services, including face-to-face and telephone clinics, workflow, correspondence, results, medication reviews, reports and other clinical administration, safeguarding leadership, service meetings and a fair share of duty clinician work.
Deliver proactive and personalised care tailored to complex health and social needs.
Show respect and sensitivity towards patients and colleagues and follow at all times the ethical principles governing medical practice set out by the GMC in Duties of a Doctor.
Work closely and co-operatively with other members of the SAS team and partner organisations in delivering clinical care, including attendance at SAS team meetings.
Work to support the service to achieve its quality outcomes and contractual targets.
Promote evidenced based practice and the dissemination of good practice amongst colleagues and peers.
Maintain meticulous records and ensure appropriate safety plans for patients with complex high-risk or challenging behaviours.
Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, in line with relevant legislation and guidance.
Exercise GP-level clinical accountability and risk escalation for complex cases, including decisions on the management of patients presenting significant risk to others e.g., violent behaviour.
Liaise with safeguarding teams and statutory partners to ensure robust protection plans and risk mitigation.
Embed a trauma-informed, firm-but-humane approach in all patient interactions.
About us
Bevan is an award-winning, employee-owned, profit-for-purpose social enterprise delivering inclusive health and wellbeing services to some of the most marginalised individuals and communities across Yorkshire. We believe no one should be denied healthcare due to their means or circumstances.
Our services covers Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Calderdale, and North Yorkshire, providing trauma-informed care to people experiencing homelessness, refugees, asylum seekers, sex workers, and other excluded groups. Rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), we are national leaders in inclusion health, offering innovative, person-led services addressing clinical and social needs.
Our team includes GPs, Public Health Doctors, ANPs, Practice Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Paramedics, Occupational Therapists, Wellbeing Mentors and Support Workers, all dedicated to delivering compassionate, person-centred care. A skilled business administration team ensures smooth service operations.
Together, we work collaboratively to address the complex needs of our patients, many with trauma, mental health issues, homelessness or addiction. Our holistic approach is informed by the social determinants of health model, enables responsive, effective care benefitting individuals and the wider system.
Operating as a Community Benefit Society (CBS), we reinvest all profits into services delivering our vision: Health, Hope, and Humanity for All.
https://wearebevan.co.uk/
Job description Job responsibilities
Bevans contract to deliver Special Allocations Scheme primary care provision has been extended and enhanced and we are looking to provide more than double the amount of GP appointments for this complex cohort previously offered. We are interested to hear from GPs who have an interest in working with an often-complex cohort with the full ongoing support provided by a specialist inclusion health GP provider. Contact with us would be encouraged if you would like to discuss the role further. We would consider any request for sessions between 1 and 9 sessions per week.
Clinical
Provide the full scope of GP primary care services, including face-to-face and telephone clinics, workflow correspondence, results, medication reviews, reports and other clinical administration, safeguarding leadership, service meetings and a fair share of duty clinician work.
Deliver proactive and personalised care tailored to complex health and social needs.
Show respect and sensitivity towards patients and colleagues and follow at all times the ethical principles governing medical practice set out by the GMC in Duties of a Doctor.
Work closely and co-operatively with other members of the SAS team and partner organisations in delivering clinical care, including attendance at SAS team meetings.
Work to support the service to achieve its quality outcomes and contractual targets.
Promote evidenced based practice and the dissemination of good practice amongst colleagues and peers.
Maintain meticulous records and ensure appropriate safety plans for patients with complex high-risk or challenging behaviours.
Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, in line with relevant legislation and guidance.
Exercise GP-level clinical accountability and risk escalation for complex cases, including decisions on the management of patients presenting significant risk to others e.g., violent behaviour.
Liaise with safeguarding teams and statutory partners to ensure robust protection plans and risk mitigation.
Embed a trauma-informed, firm-but-humane approach in all patient interactions.
Use advanced communication skills to engage patients with histories of trauma, mental illness, distrust or hostility, balancing compassionate care with clear boundary setting to ensure safety of patients and staff.
Work as part of the multidisciplinary SAS team, collaborating closely with SAS colleagues to ensure joined-up, resilient service delivery.
Employ de-escalation techniques and, when necessary, coordinate police or emergency service involvement to safely manage incidents.
Engage with wider system partners including crisis mental health teams, safeguarding boards, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, police and local authorities, to ensure holistic care and smooth transitions for patients, minimising inappropriate use of emergency or acute services.
Communication
Uses developed communication, negotiation, conflict management skills which require empathy, reassurance and persuasive skills where there can be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome.
Develop effective communication links with other professionals and agencies across all boundaries, at all levels of the organisation including users, carers, social care and the voluntary sector to ensure effective delivery of care that provides the best outcome possible for patients.
Work effectively with interpreters.
Training
To maintain competency and professional development by attending appropriate training, workshops, etc.
Ensure engagement with NHS annual appraisal and GMC revalidation.
Management
Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement activity within SAS, drawing on operational data and incident learning to improve safety, continuity and patient outcomes.
Lead reflective practice discussions and support clinical supervision within the SAS team to enhance workforce stability and well-being in this challenging area.
Investigate and facilitate change in practice designed to improve clinical outcomes and meet the needs of patients and care givers that are consistent with local/national standards and current evidence.
Act as a mentor for learners.
Support innovation in inclusion health, ensuring the service remains responsive and evidence-based.
Act with honesty and integrity at all times and acts as a positive ambassador for Bevan. Understands the social enterprise model and ethos.
Use of Data and Information
Continually improve the quality of data entered for audit purposes.
Utilise data and information to drive continual service improvement.
Promote evidenced based practice and the dissemination of good practice amongst colleagues and peers.
Person Specification
Values Essential
Emotionally resilient, reflective and able to work safely under pressure Professional, compassionate and values driven, with a commitment to reducing health inequalities Confident decisionmaker with appropriate insight into scope of practice Commitment to Bevans values of Health, Hope and Humanity
Education and Training Essential
Full GMC registration with a licence to practise as a doctor Inclusion on the NHS GP performers list MRCGP examination
Desirable
Formal training in trauma-informed care, substance misuse or mental health
Experience Essential
Experience of working with vulnerable or excluded patient groups Evidence of trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming practice Experience of managing complex safeguarding cases Experience handling challenging or high-risk patient behaviour with appropriate professional boundaries, de-escalation techniques and resilience
Desirable
Experience of providing primary care in challenging settings Experience within a Special Allocation Scheme, forensic/offender health or inclusion health service Evidence of contribution to service development, clinical governance or quality improvement initiatives
Other Essential
Flexible and adaptable, with willingness to travel across West Yorkshire
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Excellent clinical skills across the range of general practice, including ability to manage co-morbid physical and mental health conditions, and to make safe, autonomous clinical decisions under pressure. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and build therapeutic relationships with patients who may present with mistrust, complex trauma or aggressive behaviour
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).
Employer details Employer name Bevan Community Benefit Society
Address 14 Piccadilly
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 3LS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://wearebevan.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)