GP Salaried Maternity CoverNHS
Job summary
We have an opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic Salaried GP to join our multi-professional team. We need 9 sessions per week covered so are looking for 1-2 GPs to cover on a maternity locum basis starting in mid - late November 2026.
We are a friendly, forward thinking organisation with approx. 39,000 patients based across 3 practices, Caterham Valley Medical Practice in Caterham, Moat House Surgery in Merstham and Greystone House Surgery in Redhill. This position will be based at Caterham Valley but cross site working maybe required.
As a training practice we thrive on developing our staff in a supportive and professional environment, and as a high performing organisation we are dedicated to providing our patients with the best possible care and service.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. You will assist in education and training of clinical staff and medical students. The post-holder may also support the medical care for patients at local nursing homes.
Job description
The post-holder will:
Make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, GP led triage, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
Be required to be on-call for clinically urgent and emergency problems and consequently be included in the doctors on-call- rota.
Be required to make home visits for your own patient list within the session time specified
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well as wider guidance such as that from NICE
Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards
Collect data for audit purposes
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible
Prescribing generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance, Good Prescribing Practice
Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care
Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council and Department of Health
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key Performance Indicator targets
A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Attendance at regular in-house partnership, locality, governance, educational meetings and training as well as events with other agencies as appropriate
Assistance with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate
Other duties or activities as agreed by the Partners
About us
We are a forward thinking, well organized training practice with a high reputation for quality and standards. We encourage and support the personal development of all our staff and are keen to ensure the right person joins our friendly team.
- Fourteen Partners across three sites
- Purpose built practices
- GMS, 10,700 patients at the Caterham site (39,000 across the whole Partnership)
- Training Practice for Registrars, Foundation Yr 2 GPs, Physician Associates, Medical students & Nurses
- EMIS Web