Long-term Locum GP

Job summary

We are a large successful training practice across two dispensing sites with a practice owned on site Pharmacy and an award-winning research team.

We are passionate about a high standard of health and wellbeing for our staff and our patients. We are looking for someone who will share this vision and thrive with us.

We would like to appoint a long-term locum GP for 6-9 months to cover an arranged absence within the team. We would welcome applications for 6 to 8 sessions per week, pay negotiable.

Some of the benefits of working in our GP team include:

• Regular half day practice closures for staff training, team building and wellbeing activities
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Company sick pay
• Regular social events including annual company funded Christmas party
• Numerous charity fundraising events throughout the year
• Lunch break staff walking group
• Monthly team meetings for shared learning

Our large clinical team is supported by a dynamic, well-structured management and administrative team to allow smooth and efficient running of the practice. This also enables us to seize opportunities to innovate and further improve our patient care and the wellbeing of our staff.

Main duties of the job

We introduced telephone consulting over 8 years ago. We have continually improved our system to achieve good patient access and satisfaction; whilst still allowing the GPs to remain in control of their workload and their day.

We have worked hard to reduce the level of administrative work for our GPs through our skilled Medical Secretary team processing tasks, E-Consults and medical reports; Medicines Optimisation team dealing with medication queries and reconciliation; clinical support to help reduce pathology processing and an Administrative Support team to assist with QOF, systems, coding and data.

We encourage all our staff to take opportunities to develop other interests to enhance their day-to-day general practice. We would encourage any new GPs to develop other skills that would contribute to the practice or work with us on any of the following:

• Training GP registrars, F2 doctors, medical students, pharmacists, and nurses.
• Working with our dedicated research team.
• Supporting the dispensaries and practice owned on-site pharmacy.
• Womens health clinics
• Substance misuse clinics
• Specialist Dermatology clinics
• Minor operations and joint injections
• Green Impact for Health Bronze Award, working towards the silver award.
• GP appraisals
• Universal Personalised Care
• Veteran Friendly Accreditation

About us

At Oak Tree Surgery and Pensilva Health Centre, we are a friendly, stable, and long-established Partnership that values teamwork and a sustainable work life balance. We have created a supportive working environment and we consider the health and wellbeing of our team to be of the utmost importance.

We are a two-site practice covering the market town of Liskeard and the moorland village of Pensilva. There are excellent road and rail links to Plymouth and Truro and the nearest sandy beach is 20 minutes from the surgery.

• Practice size 16800
• High QOF achieving
• Two large dispensaries
• On-site practice-owned Pharmacy
• Training practice of GP registrars, F2s, Medical Students, Clinical Pharmacists and Nurses.
• Highly successful and award-winning research team.
• Embraces MDT approach to patient care

Our GP team are supported by Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physician Associates, Mental Health Practitioners, Physios and Clinical Pharmacists. For a practice of this size, we have a small number of daily home visit requests.