12‑Month GP Maternity Cover: Primary & Urgent Care

The Methodist Church in Britain; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BMA model contract terms

Job summary

Hamble Valley Health in the United Kingdom seeks a GP to cover a 12-month maternity leave, primarily at Blackthorn Health Centre with duties at Bursledon Surgery and Hedge End Medical Centre.

The role focuses on consultations, home visits, prescriptions and results for a defined patient list, plus urgent care centre shifts. It follows the BMA model contract and involves six sessions over three days.

Qualifications

• GP qualification and registration as a practising clinician.
• GMC registration and NHSE Performers List eligibility.
• DBS check and safeguarding compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide surgery and telephone consultations and home visits in line with the practice timetable.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions on presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred within the practice.
• Assess undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs and screen for disease risk factors.
• Develop care plans in line with disease management protocols, and provide counselling and health education.
• Compile computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, checking and signing repeats, prescribing from the formulary where clinically appropriate.
• Manage prescriptions, pathology results and incoming correspondence for own patient list.
• Act as operational director and clinical lead for the urgent care centre about once every three to four weeks.
• Work shifts in the urgent care centre at Bursledon Surgery on a fair share rota.
• Admit and discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate.
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes with appropriate coding and electronic templates.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Carry out the normal duties and responsibilities of a GP working in primary care.

Education

Medical qualifications

Job description

Hamble Valley Health in the United Kingdom seeks a GP to cover a 12-month maternity leave, primarily at Blackthorn Health Centre with duties at Bursledon Surgery and Hedge End Medical Centre.

The role focuses on consultations, home visits, prescriptions and results for a defined patient list, plus urgent care centre shifts. It follows the BMA model contract and involves six sessions over three days.