GP Maternity Locum, Southbank Surgery

GP Maternity Locum, Southbank Surgery NHS Scotland – Glasgow, GB

Address: 17-19 Southbank Rd, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow G66 1NH

We are seeking a 7‑8 month maternity locum to join us at Southbank Surgery in Kirkintilloch. We are looking for 7 sessions per week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning).

We are an established training practice with 5 partners and a salaried GP, providing high quality care to our circa 7,500 patients. We own our own premises and have a well‑established administration team with signposting and workflow management fully implemented. We also benefit from the additional support of pharmacotherapy, an advanced nurse practitioner and an advanced physiotherapy practitioner. We have a highly skilled practice nurse who does most of our chronic disease management.

We use EMIS, Docman and Lexacom.

All partners are very happy to offer advice throughout the day if needed with a generally an open‑door policy. We all meet for a coffee break every day which is an opportunity to catch up or discuss anything clinical if needed. Each GP generally does one early start and one late finish per week so ideally the hours we are looking for are as below but these can be negotiated if not suitable:

A typical day would be 12 × 15‑minute appointments between 09:00‑12:30 with a 30‑minute coffee break at 10:30, then 10 × 15‑minute appointments between 13:30‑16:30 with a 30‑minute break at 15:00. These are a mixture of pre‑booked and same‑day appointments. The patients are offered a telephone call or face‑to‑face based on their preference; most are now face‑to‑face. We do not operate a triage system, so the reception books all appointments.

The exception: every doctor has a few urgent face‑to‑face slots each day booked by the emergency doctor, shared equally between all doctors.

We also need you to do some emergency doctor sessions. The emergency doctor deals with all emergency calls, house visits and signing repeat prescriptions. The day is split into four parts: 08:00‑10:30, 10:30‑13:00, 13:00‑15:00 and 15:00‑18:00 and is shared out between all doctors in the surgery that day, so you would only need to do 2‑3 hours of emergency doctor work with any leftover calls etc being handed over to the next emergency doctor.

There would be no routine appointments during this time, and if there are no emergencies or duty calls, then it is an opportunity to catch up with your mail.

All doctors manage their own blood results, special requests and Docman. Therefore you would only be managing the patients you see, as well as taking on the mail cover for the partner on maternity leave, who currently works 7 sessions.

The practice is happy to consider applications from established practitioners and newly qualifying GPs.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received or a suitable candidate is found.

Jenny Williams, Practice Manager, 0141 776 2183 / 0141 776 9940. Please send a covering letter and CV to the email address below: [email protected]