About this role
Job summary
Tudor Lodge Surgery is looking for a salaried GP for 48 sessions a week, ideally 6. One of our much-loved salaried GPs retires at the end of March after many years here. We are a warm, friendly and supportive practice with personalised lists and no duty doctor. Newly qualified GPs are very welcome. If you have, or would like to develop, a special interest in frailty, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
You will provide care to your own personalised list of patients. A typical day of 2 sessions is 25 patient contacts: 24 appointments, a mix of face to face and telephone, and a home visit. Home visits are not daily, and 1 or 2 a week is more typical.
About us
- Continuity is super important to us, and we have personalised lists.
- We have no duty doctor.
- All GPs have an open door to support colleagues.
- We have lunch together every day, and there is a lot of laughing.
- Every month we take part in local learning, with an afternoon of CPD for all GPs.
- We have superb access for patients, which we have worked hard to achieve over the years.
- We outsource as much private work as possible and pass payment on to the GPs who do the work.
- Our multidisciplinary team includes 2 paramedics, a mental health nurse, an older persons mental health nurse, a learning disabilities nurse and a care home nurse, to name a few.
- Our CQC inspection last year was very positive.
- We are a training practice
Job description
Job responsibilities
Tudor Lodge Surgery is seeking a salaried GP for 48 sessions a week, ideally 6, to replace one of our much-loved salaried GPs, who retires at the end of March after many years with the practice. The post is to start in April 2027 or sooner. The salary is £11,534.53 per session per annum.
Continuity of care is super important to us, and you will look after your own personalised list of patients. We have no duty doctor.
You will be supported by back office clinical support with documents and path results, and by a multidisciplinary team including 2 paramedics, a mental health nurse, an older persons mental health nurse, a learning disabilities nurse and a care home nurse. All our GPs have an open door to support colleagues, and we have lunch together every day. We outsource as much private work as possible and pass on payment to the GPs who do the work.
Applications are welcome from newly qualified GPs, and from GPs with a special interest, or an aspiring special interest, in frailty.
Main responsibilities
- Provide safe, effective and compassionate general medical care to registered patients, face to face, by telephone and through home visits.
- Maintain continuity of care for patients on your personalised list.
- Assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients as clinically appropriate, and prescribe safely and cost-effectively.
- Keep accurate, timely and contemporaneous clinical records.
- Review and act on documents and results, working with the back office clinical support team.
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team and with community and secondary care colleagues.
- Support colleagues across the practice.
- Take part in monthly local learning and CPD, and maintain the requirements for appraisal and revalidation.
- Contribute to audit, quality improvement, significant event review and the practices CQC standards.
- Follow practice policies and national requirements on safeguarding, confidentiality, information governance, infection control, equality and health and safety.
Informal chats and visits are welcome. Please contact our Practice Manager, Suzie Heller, as a first step: [email protected]
We would rather you got in touch with us directly rather than via this job site.
This job description is not exhaustive and may be reviewed in discussion with the postholder to reflect the changing needs of the practice. Please also check out our website tudorlodgesurgery.nhs.uk for more information on the surgery.
Please be aware that if we receive sufficient applications before the closing date we may close the job early so please do not wait until January to get in touch if you think you could be interested.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- As this position is open to newly qualified GPs there is no essential experience.
Desirable
- We do have fairly high levels of deprivation in our practice as well as having many patients in low deprivation areas, so it is quite a range. Experience of working in this mixed demographic could be useful.
Qualifications
Essential
- full GMC registration with licence to practice.
- On GP Register or due to complete training by start date
- On NHS Performers List (England)
Desirable
- a specialist interest, or aspiring interest, in frailty.
- This is not essential but we would love to have someone in the team who is interested in this complex area
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
Pier Health Super Partnership
Address
Tudor Lodge Surgery
3 Nithsdale Road
Weston-super-Mare
North Somerset
BS23 4JP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.pierhealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)