General Practitioner (GP)

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 a salaried role. We have a new practice manager with over twenty-seven years of practice management experience and are excited for the future.

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

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.

What we can offer you:

We aim to create a positive working environment for all our staff and have the following benefits:

• 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.
  • 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.
  • Linking you in with the active Milton Keynes GP forum.
• The opportunity to design your own sessions allowing 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.
• Opportunities for developing a special interest with ongoing training opportunities.
• 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 have free staff parking.

If you would like more information, or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Julia Boyd on 01234 988592 / 07809167910 or email Julia.boyd3@nhs.net