General Practitioner

Salary: c. £12,000 per session, depending on experience and duties

Location:

Holsworthy or Hatherleigh

Our benefits include:

• 6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
• 1 week study leave per annum (pro-rata)
• Relocation fee of up to £5,000
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

Are you looking for a GP role that offers a great working environment?

Are you seeking the diversity of portfolio working, with opportunities to explore various interests within primary care or progress in your career?

Are you wishing to find a salaried position in a supportive, forward thinking practice?

We have an opportunity for a Salaried GP working 4-8 sessions per week to join our expanding multidisciplinary clinical team.

We can offer you:

• A friendly practice with an ethos based around continuity of care and great team working
• Team duty rota
• Daily morning team coffee breaks.
• Regular clinical meetings to support CPD
• Skilled and experienced multidisciplinary On The Day team
• Patient call triage
• Dedicated Home Visiting and Care Home team to support work with care homes and frail elderly patients living independently.
• GP Retainer Scheme
• Skilled Worker Visa to international GPs who are GMC registered and on the Performers List
• Indemnity membership paid for by the practice

Work-life balance is especially important to us to maintain the health and wellbeing of our valued staff, including peer support and mentoring, and social gatherings outside of work.

A working day usually consists of a mix of 15 minute face to face and 10 minute telephone appointments, with diary slots and dedicated Admin Sessions (e.g. a 6 session GP will have 1 Admin Session per fortnight).

You will provide a full range of general medical services. There may be a requirement to be on call for clinically urgent and emergency problems in accordance with the associated job plan. You are expected to support the partnership of Ruby Country Medical Group in providing all services outlined in the Core Contract.

You will support and input into the aims of the Group in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the Group.

You will utilise and develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations, child health surveillance, and family planning training etc, if approved by the ICB. This will be subject to presentation of the appropriate certificates and update of relevant courses.

You will maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records and paperwork at all times.

Our opportunities include:

• Mentorship and support
• To develop specialisms including minor surgery and family planning
• To nurture professional interests and develop a portfolio

Ruby Country Medical Group is a friendly, forward-looking partnership where we work hard to ensure our team is happy and motivated, which we believe is key to delivering good patient care.

Our two practice sites, serving 15,000 patients, are in the market towns of Holsworthy and Hatherleigh. Surfing, open water sea-pool swimming, sea kayaking, the South West coastal path and moorland splendour are all in easy reach from our practices. We extend inland from the beautiful sandy beaches of North Cornwall almost to the edge of the Dartmoor wilderness.

Our team consists of 2 Partners, 1 Practice Manager, 9 Employed GPs, and a full skills mix of clinicians including Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Prescriber and Paramedics. Not forgetting our fantastic Patient Services, Secretarial and Administrative teams, who work very hard to minimise the administrative burden for the clinical team.

We are an established training practice with 2 GP Trainers. In addition to GP Trainees, we also support medical and nursing students. There are opportunities for you to get involved in teaching if this is an area of interest.

We are members of the Coast and Country PCN with an in-house Pharmacy team (Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians), Wellbeing team (Social Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coach), Mental Health team (Mental Health…