We are seeking a 7-8 month maternity locum, to join us at Southbank Surgery in Kirkintilloch. We are looking for 7 sessions per week (Monday/Wednesday/Thursday and Friday am).
We are an established training practice with 5 partners and a salaried GP, providing high quality care to our circa 7500 patients. We own our own premises and have a well-established administration team with signposting and workflow management fully implemented. We also benefit from the additional support of pharmacotherapy, advanced nurse practitioner, and an advanced physiotherapy practitioner. We have a highly skilled practice nurse who does most of our chronic disease management. We use EMIS, Docman and Lexacom.
All partners are very happy to offer advice throughout the day if needed with generally an open-door policy. We all meet for coffee break every day which is an opportunity to catch up or discuss anything clinical if needed. Each GP generally does one early start and one late finish per week so ideally the hours we are looking for are as below but these can be negotiated if not suitable:
Monday 09:00-16:30
Wednesday 09:00-16:30
Thursday 09:00-18:00 (phone lines go over at 6pm)
Friday 08:00-13:00
A typical day would be 12 x 15min appts between 09:00-12:30 with a 30min coffee break at 10:30 then10 x 15min appointments between13:30-16:30 with a 30min break at 3pm. These are a mixture of pre-booked and same day appointments. The patients are offered a telephone call or face to face based on their preference, most of these are now face to face. We do not operate a triage system, so reception book all appointments. The exception to this is that every doctor has a few urgent face to face slots each day, which are booked by the emergency doctor. These are shared out equally between all doctors.
We also need you to do some emergency doctor sessions. The emergency doctor deals with all emergency calls, house visits and signing repeat prescriptions. The day is split into 4 parts 0800-1030, 1030-1300, 1300-1500 and 1500-1800 and is shared out between all doctors in the surgery that day, so you would only need to do 2-3 hours of emergency doc with any left-over calls etc being handed over to the next emergency doctor. There would be no routine appointments during this time, and if there are no emergencies or duty calls, then it is an opportunity to catch up with your mail.
All doctors manage their own blood results, special requests and Docman. Therefore you would only be managing the patients you see, as well as taking on the mail cover for the partner on maternity leave, who currently works 7 sessions.
The practice is happy to consider applications from established practitioners and newly qualifying GPs.
Start date May 18th 2025
Apply To
Jenny Williams Practice Manager, 0141 776 2183/0141 776 9940 . Please send a covering letter & CV to the email address below
Email – jenny.williams@nhs.scot