Maternity GP Cover
Hamble Valley Health
Southampton, SO31 4NQView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
30 November 2026
60 days leftJob description
Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Hamble Valley Health. We are looking for a maternity cover, this will be for 12 months, 6 sessions ...
This post has a base as their main site at Blackthorn Health Centre. On a
rolling basis, you will also work in our Urgent Care Centre which is at
Bursledon Surgery. This is on a fair share rota. In the same way, you will be
our "operational director" around once every 3-4 weeks. This means
you are the clinical lead for the urgent care centre in the practice. This
requires a longer working day (8am to 6.30pm).
Routine care is generally 13 appointments in the morning and 12 in the
afternoon. Mornings are generally 8am-1pm, and afternoons 2pm-6pm. We are a
single practice Primary Care Network. We have visiting paramedics, so apart
from terminal care, visits are rare. You will be responsible for the
prescriptions, pathology results and incoming correspondence for your list
size. On average, you will manage around 40 prescriptions a week, 20 results a
week, and 5 letters a week per session. We have robust processes in place to
support prescribing and document workflow.
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards including appropriate coding and use of electronic templates and other electronic systems as agreed.
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Health Centre and Hedge End Medical Centre have merged and are now known as
Hamble Valley Health. Our list size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly
concentrated in Hamble, Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide
high quality, accessible medical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a
supportive and pleasant working environment for clinicians and staff.
We are part of
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB and offer General Medical Services to our
patients.
We are a
training practice and take registrar doctors and also teach medical students
from Southampton School of Medicine.
The practice
has seven Partners. The current Partnership team is Dr Harris, Dr Cropley, Dr
Graham, Dr Sonpal, Dr Shahsavanspour, Dr Yates and Dr McKenzie.
We employ
fourteen salaried GPs, five Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nursing team of
fifteen, and a reception/admin team of seventy.
The practice
uses Emis as a clinical system. We are paper light, so scan all incoming
correspondence onto patients medical records.
Qualifications
Essential: - GMC Registration; - Medical Qualifications; - Membership of a recognised defence organisation; - Inclusion on the Performers list with NHSE; - DBS
Desirable: - -Qualified in medicine.
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First seen
16 September 2026
Last checked
18 September 2026
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