05/11/2024
Maternity cover GP required, flexible 4-6 sessions per week. Start date January 2025. Initially to cover the maternity leave of one of our partners, but have a rapidly growing list size so it may be that the role can be extended beyond maternity cover to become a permanent post.
Interested in quality of life and a traditional patient-centred approach with continuity of care at the heart of your practice as a GP?
Come to work with us at Dunster and Porlock surgeries on Exmoor, a unique landscape of moorland and woodland where wild red deer roam, dark skies are full of stars and high cliffs plunge into the sea. Enjoy cosy pubs and tearooms in characterful, historic villages.
We pride ourselves on our commitment to care for our patients in an old-fashioned way from cradle to grave with excellent continuity of care which is so often lost in these new models of Primary Care.
Dunster and Porlock Surgeries are two highly rated and welcoming practices, serving vibrant communities. Dunster Surgery is a rural, family medical practice with spacious, bespoke premises overlooking the village cricket pitch. Porlock Medical Centre has views onto the moors and across the sea to Wales yet is located right on the edge of the village.
Both practices CQC rated in 2018 as ‘Outstanding’. Ranked in 2024 as one of the top 100 Practices in the country with 94% of patients rating their experience as good or better.
We are a happy, friendly team who support each other to achieve our mission of providing Gold standard care. We actively encourage personal and professional development and consider ourselves innovative and forward thinking whilst retaining the ethos of a family practice. This is real medicine in a rural setting. We are in the enviable position to be able to offer the role to the right person.
• GMS dispensing practice in Dunster, branch surgery in Porlock.
• 5 Doctor rural training practice.
Registered patients number 7800; list steadily growing.
• Excellent nursing, reception and administrative teams; 4 Practice Nurses, 3 HCAs, dispensing and
administrative staff.
• Training location for GP Specialist Trainees, Foundation year 2 doctors and medical students.
• Actively engaged with the PCN and Living Better for social support and health promotion
• Regular multi-professional meetings and a daily tea break with the other Doctors and Nurses.
• Competitive salary package including indemnity and GMC fees.
• 6 weeks annual leave pro rata
• Flexible working week with opportunity to explore and develop special interests.
• Low visit rate.
• Happy supportive environment.
• Wonderful quality of life being immersed in beautiful scenery with a castle, beaches, woodland, Exmoor and even a steam train service.
Dunster and Porlock Surgeries will provide you with an exciting opportunity to practice and further develop your clinical skills as a member of a friendly, forward-thinking team.
For an informal chat or if you’d like to come and visit to see what we have to offer over tea and cake, please contact the practice manager i.budge@nhs.net or call 01643 821244. If you would like a chat with one of the Partners we would be very glad to do so.
https://www.dunsterandporlocksurgeries.co.uk/
