Salaried or Locum GP - Maternity Cover

NHS; Wotton-under-Edge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Culverhay Surgery is seeking a GP for a temporary salaried or locum position, covering maternity leave from September 2025. Join a friendly practice in Wotton Under Edge, offering professional development opportunities and a supportive work-life balance, while serving a diverse patient population in a beautiful location.

Benefits

6 weeks annual leave plus 1 week study leave

Protected administration slots

In-house educational programme

Future partnership opportunities

Team coffee breaks and support

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with GMC registration.
• MRCGP and vocational training certificate required.
• Experience in primary care and QOF.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical services and deliver high standard clinical care.
• Comply with GMS contract and GMC standards.
• Lead the multidisciplinary team in effective management.

Skills

Professional development

Teamwork

Clinical care

Education

Full GMC Registration

MRCGP

Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent

Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)

Job description

Culverhay Surgery arelooking for a GP interested in a temporary salaried or locum position to cover maternity leave from September 2025. Located on the edge of the beautiful Cotswolds, our practiceincludes 3 fully integrated sites in the Wotton Under Edge area ofGloucestershire, and is easily accessible from Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, andCheltenham. We are seeking a GP to work ideally from our Wotton site, butthis could be flexible.

Main duties of the job

What Culverhay Surgery can offer:

- 4 clinical sessions/week on Thursdays and Fridays, from September 2025 - approx end May 2026

-Salary negotiable based on experience

-Protected administration slots

-Friendly practice with an ethos based aroundcontinuity of care and great team working

-Morning coffee breaks as a team and regularclinical meetings to support continuing professional development

-Work life balance is especially important to usto maintain the health and wellbeing of all our valued staff, including peersupport and mentoring and outside work social gatherings

-Skilled Worker Visa (formerly Tier-2 Visa)status

-Pharmacy team to support prescription and medicinesmanagement

-Frailty coordinators to support work with carehomes and frail elderly patients living independently

-Long established training practice with 2 GPtrainers. In addition to GP trainees we also support medical and nursingstudents

-In house educational programme with guestspeakers

-Defenceunion subscription is paid by the practice for salaried role

-Membershipof GGPET funded by the practice for salaried role

-Futurepartnership opportunities

-6weeks annual leave plus 1 week study leave if salaried

-Inhouse minor ops and womens health clinics, including coil and implant fittings

About us

Our team consists of 4 partners (1 Practice Managerpartner), 13 salaried GPs, a full skill mix of nurses including a nurse prescriber,senior clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, frailty care co-ordinators, paramedic,social prescriber, and practice counsellors. Not forgetting our fantasticreception, secretarial and admin teams, who work very hard to minimise theadministrative burden for the clinical team.

Job responsibilities

To work as an autonomous practitioner, responsible forthe provision of medical services to the practice population, delivering anexcellent standard of clinical care whilst complying with the GMS contract.Furthermore, the post-holder will adhere to the GMC standards for good medicalpractice, contributing to the effective management of the practice, leading byexample, maintaining a positive, collaborative working relationship with themultidisciplinary team.

Please refer to attached job description for further information.

Person Specification

Eligibility Criteria

• Full GMC Registration
• National Performers List registration
• Appropriate defence indemnity (MPS/MDU)
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Experience of medicines management
• General understanding of the GMS contract
• Experience of ICB initiatives

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.