Special Allocations Scheme (SAS) General Practitioner

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., 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.

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.