Job summary
Cobbs Garden Surgery is a traditional, family-doctor service with a strong culture of teamwork. We are a tight-knit team who are very supportive of each other. We value input and suggestions from any members of our team with the view to making changes for the future development of the practice. We are looking to welcome a GP who shares these values to join our team in either a salaried role or with a view to partnership for which development support will be provided. We have a new practice manager with over twenty-seven years of practice management experience and are excited for the future.
Salary, hours and contract:
- Salary:£11,500 per session per year for salaried role
- Hours: Flexible, we are happy to offer full-time or part-time options
- Contract: salaried GP with a view to partnership (we are happy to provide support to GPs wishing to develop towards a partnership role)
Main duties of the job
As a practice, we maintain a close partnership with the Bedfordshire, Luton, and Milton Keynes Training Hub. Our aim is to provide comprehensive training and development opportunities to our staff, fostering their growth within the NHS primary care community. Through this collaboration, we offer a diverse range of accessible training and development options, including:
- Individualised coaching sessions
- Health and well-being benefits, including funded access to the ShinyMind app, which offers daily support for well-being and resilience
- Support from the training hub GP Workforce leads
- Newly qualified GPs (within one year of CCT completion) will be supported to join the training hubs comprehensive two-year new to practice fellowship programme, offering CPD activities, peer support networks, and deeper understanding of general practice and primary care
About us
Cobbs Garden is based in Olney, a beautiful market town in north Buckinghamshire and we also serve the surrounding villages. We are proud of our current CQC rating which is good with an outstanding rating for responsive. Our multidisciplinary team is made up of a range of very experienced clinicians including practice nurses, minor illness nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, a physiotherapist, HCAs and a social prescriber who take a lot of work from the GPs. Plus, we have an amazing sandwich shop just around the corner!
If you would like more information, a general chat, or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Julia Boyd on 01234 988592 / 07809167910 or email Julia.boyd3@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we can offer you:
We value each one of our members of staff, seeing them as an integral part of a team helping to share the future of the practice and the care we provide. We aim to create a positive working environment for all our staff and have the following benefits:
- Support to become a GP partner with mentoring from the partners and our experienced practice manager.
- A comprehensive, 6-week induction including:
- Reduced appointment times (20 minutes) initially while you learn the practice systems and referral pathways which will then reduce to 15 then to 10 minutes. The practice works on 10-minute slots but aims to increase this to 15 minutes in the future.
- Spending time with each of the practice staff to learn how the practice and system works to learn how to fit in.
- A buddy system whereby you will be linked in with a senior GP at the practice with protected time booked out of your rotas for regular mentoring/de-briefing meetings.
- Linking you in with the active Milton Keynes GP forum who hold regular learning sessions and meetings.
- The opportunity to design your own sessionsallowing you the flexibility to chose when your admin time is booked.
- 6 weeks' annual leave and 1 weeks study leave (whole time equivalent) pro rata if part time.
- Opportunities to be involved in the development of new services at the practice. We are planning on building a new and much larger surgery on a plot we have secured which will allow us to provide an increased number of services including outreach consultant clinics which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape.
- Opportunities for developing a specialist interest.
- We believe ongoing training is vital and encourage staff development and as such we are building links with our local universities to help train our staff as well as to offer student placements which would offer the opportunity to develop your supervision and teaching skills is this is an area of interest.
- We aspire to become a GP Training Practice in the future.
- We are looking into becoming a Tier 2 Sponsor in the near future.
- We havefree staff parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we can offer you:
We value each one of our members of staff, seeing them as an integral part of a team helping to share the future of the practice and the care we provide. We aim to create a positive working environment for all our staff and have the following benefits:
- Support to become a GP partner with mentoring from the partners and our experienced practice manager.
- A comprehensive, 6-week induction including:
- Reduced appointment times (20 minutes) initially while you learn the practice systems and referral pathways which will then reduce to 15 then to 10 minutes. The practice works on 10-minute slots but aims to increase this to 15 minutes in the future.
- Spending time with each of the practice staff to learn how the practice and system works to learn how to fit in.
- A buddy system whereby you will be linked in with a senior GP at the practice with protected time booked out of your rotas for regular mentoring/de-briefing meetings.
- Linking you in with the active Milton Keynes GP forum who hold regular learning sessions and meetings.
- The opportunity to design your own sessionsallowing you the flexibility to chose when your admin time is booked.
- 6 weeks' annual leave and 1 weeks study leave (whole time equivalent) pro rata if part time.
- Opportunities to be involved in the development of new services at the practice. We are planning on building a new and much larger surgery on a plot we have secured which will allow us to provide an increased number of services including outreach consultant clinics which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape.
- Opportunities for developing a specialist interest.
- We believe ongoing training is vital and encourage staff development and as such we are building links with our local universities to help train our staff as well as to offer student placements which would offer the opportunity to develop your supervision and teaching skills is this is an area of interest.
- We aspire to become a GP Training Practice in the future.
- We are looking into becoming a Tier 2 Sponsor in the near future.
- We havefree staff parking.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC and hold licence to practice MRCGP/nMRCGP
- Eligible to work as a GP in the UK
- Completed GP registrar training
- On NHS GP performers list
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Desirable
- Understanding of clinical governance and quality issues
- Understanding the role of teamwork in providing quality services
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, face-to-face and have active listening skills
- Recognise people's need for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
- An interest in training new or established doctors would help our aim to become a training practice
- We use SystmOne and you would ideally have experience us using this.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC and hold licence to practice MRCGP/nMRCGP
- Eligible to work as a GP in the UK
- Completed GP registrar training
- On NHS GP performers list
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Desirable
- Understanding of clinical governance and quality issues
- Understanding the role of teamwork in providing quality services
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, face-to-face and have active listening skills
- Recognise people's need for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
- An interest in training new or established doctors would help our aim to become a training practice
- We use SystmOne and you would ideally have experience us using this.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
