Job summary

Exceptional opportunity with this innovative primary care / general practice provider at Oaklands Surgery and Yeovil Health Centre in Somerset,with 6 sessions available.

Salary : Between £11,000 - £14,000 per session - based on experience and level of GP role undertaken in practice.

Oaklands Surgery is an urban practice providing high quality healthcare services. In September 2017, it merged with Yeovil Health Centre to offer almost 11,000 registered patients from both practices. Both are Training Practices supported by health coaches, advanced nurse practitioners and workflow and medicines management hubs.

Yeovil has two railway stations making travel to London, Bristol, Exeter and Bath easy. It is also in close proximity to Bristol, Bournemouth, Southampton and Exeter International Airport linking our practice in Somerset to the world.

Yeovil is an expanding town surrounded by beautiful scenery with a green oasis at its heart Ninesprings and Ham Hill country park a stones throw. Across the border into Dorset are Sherborne, Dorchester and the beautiful Jurassic coast. It is quickly becoming a popular relocation destination with competitive house prices and access to attractive neighbouring towns and villages. The town centre boasts numerous shops, restaurants, an entertainment complex, leisure facilities and theatre.

Main duties of the job

You would undertake all the clinical duties associated witha GP working in primary care, without the responsibilities and risks associatedwith being a partner. We can offer opportunities from salaried through toemployed and consultant level GP posts depending on your experience and thelevel of responsibility you take on at the practice.

All GPs working for us are paid as Employees, unlikePartners, which means less risk for you and more time to focus on patient care.We put patients first, with our Employed and Consultant GPs working flexiblyaccording to need, so contributing to areas such as QOF, QI, training andresearch projects providing a huge amount of variety to the role. However, our SalariedGPs have a clearly defined job plan setting out the hours of work andresponsibility and tasks associated with the role.

Through annual appraisal, we encourage career developmentand progression and are keen to support GPs who wish to extend their role, orhave specialist skills which can be utilised in primary care. We recognise thatsome GPs will wish to stay salaried, and some will wish to assume moreresponsibility once they have found their feet and aspire to Employed orConsultant roles.

About us

Symphony Healthcare Services was established in 2016 as part of the award-winning Symphony Programme Vanguard, developing new models of care. We now support 19 practices across Somerset providing care for 134,000 patients.

Symphony has developed a model where each practice is encouraged to operate autonomously, but as a subsidiary of Yeovil Hospital and with the backing and economies of scale from a central support team (particularly for HR / People Services and strategic management matters).

Providing NHS services is at the heart of what we do. Our vision is to ensure that primary care is sustainable for patients and practices in Somerset, and we aim to be a national exemplar for primary care provision. We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop and transform patient care and working practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do.

By working at scale in primary care in Somerset we can offer you the opportunity to develop specialist skills with the support of a larger organisation to develop your GP career.

Key benefits :

• Flexible roles and working options.
• A Mentorship Scheme for newly qualified GPs who will be supported by a GP Trainer.
• Freedom to join our new in house GP locum agency, Symphony Flex, with additional competitive pay rates.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached Job description and person specification for a full breakdown of the role and responsibilities.

GP ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Symphony differentiates GP roles to provide a greater range of options for GPs, to enable career progression at all levels, and to support recruitment and retention.

The three different GP roles in Symphony are :

For more information about this role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Lydia Carmichael, Deputy Director of People Services on

If this advert has sparked your interest in being a Symphony GP within Somerset, please contact us on SHS.PeopleS

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential