Salaried GP

Do you still believe that one of the best things about general practice is getting to know your patients? We do. Golden Valley Practice is a small, friendly, rural dispensing practice in beautiful south-west Herefordshire. We are looking for a salaried GP to join our team for 4 to 8 sessions per week. We are proud to offer something increasingly unusual in modern general practice: the opportunity to practise relationship-based family medicine, with continuity of care and time to get to know your patients and, very often, their wider families. That does not mean we are stuck in the past. We actively look for technology and new ways of working that make general practice safer, more efficient and more enjoyable. We use GP Automate and Abtrace, are exploring the use of AI scribes, and have developed our administrative team to remove unnecessary workload from clinicians. We are looking for more than somebody to fill sessions. We would like to find a GP who genuinely values this way of working and wants to become part of a close-knit practice and the community it serves.

The post-holder will undertake the normal range of GP duties, including face-to-face and telephone consultations, home visits where required, prescribing, referrals, reviewing results and clinical correspondence, and appropriate patient-related administrative work. Our routine appointments are 15 minutes, with clinical workload capped at 25 patient contacts per day. A separate triage clinician manages same-day demand and urgent presentations, also with a capped workload. Our GP Assistant manages the majority of incoming Docman correspondence, leaving individual GPs with a low administrative burden. As a dispensing practice, we also have pharmacist and pharmacy technician support. Home visits are part of rural general practice but are not onerous it would be unusual for an individual GP to undertake more than one a week. There is scope to develop particular clinical interests. Skills such as minor surgery and joint injections would be welcomed but are not essential. The post-holder will provide high-quality, patient-centred general medical services to registered and temporary patients, working autonomously within their professional competence and as part of the wider practice team. They will also contribute appropriately to multidisciplinary working, clinical governance, quality improvement and the continued development of the practice.