• Job Description

  Req#: A0302-25-0013?language=en&page=982&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Nightingale Valley Practice (NVP) is seeking a locum General Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team in Brislington, Bristol.

  We are looking for a locum GP to provide 6 sessions per week, ideally spread across 3 days. The role will involve a mix of clinical consultations, admin time, and participation in our collaborative practice environment.

  Main duties of the job

  You will be dealing with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting and ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.

  You can find full details and expectations of the role in the attached job description and person specification.

  We would welcome informal discussions and visits to the practice. Please liaise with Summer Kendall, Deputy Practice Manager, to arrange this (contact details on this page).

  About us

  At Nightingale Valley Practice, our vision is to be a centre of excellence in primary caredelivering high-quality, compassionate healthcare and a broad range of services to our local community. As a locum GP, youll be joining a friendly, forward-thinking, and well-organised team that values continuity of care and patient experience, while also recognising the flexibility and fresh perspective that locum clinicians bring.

  Youll be supported by a dedicated team of administrative and patient navigation staff, making it easy to settle in and focus on delivering excellent clinical care. While the role is temporary, youll still have the opportunity to engage in a vibrant and progressive environmentespecially if you have interests in teaching, research, or service improvement.

  As part of Connexus PCN, we work closely with neighbouring practices and play an active role in collaborative system leadership. We place a high value on teamwork, mutual respect, and a good sense of humour. Staff wellbeing is a genuine priority at NVP, and we pride ourselves on creating a positive working culture.

  If our approach resonates with you, wed be delighted to welcome you for an informal visit or chatplease get in touch to find out more.

  Details

  Date posted

  25 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Locum

  Duration

  6 months

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  A0302-25-0013

  Job locations

  Wick Road

  Bristol

  BS4 4HU

  
  

  Riverside Surgery

  Wyatts View

  St. Annes Park

  Bristol

  BS4 4WW

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SALARIED GP AT NVP

  Patient Care - Are you Caring and Effective?

  In accordance with the Practice session timetable, you will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery and telephone consultations ( including a fair share of the extended hours rota), visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.

  Take the lead role of responsible duty doctor as part of a rota.

  Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

  Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

  Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

  Support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPs and nurses with clinical queries

  Participate in proportionally shared enhanced Access hours (to be discussed) along with the other clinicians within the business. This could be Early starts, late working or occasional Saturday working.

  Governance and Risk Management - Are you/we Safe?

  Represent the practice at CQC and NHS/CCG quality monitoring inspections

  Ensure compliance with all relevant company, local and national guidelines and legislation

  Adhere to safeguarding requirements and deal appropriately with complaints, incidents and alerts using company systems and policies

  Adhere to all company clinical governance policies

  Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

  Collect data for audit purposes and for compliance with QOF requirements

  Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

  Reflect and assess own and team performance.

  Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs in a person centred way.

  Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

  Leadership and Development - Are we Well-Led as a practice?

  Lead on clinical areas and projects to develop the practice and enhance offerings to patients operationally and strategically.

  Mentor and provide clinical supervision for a multi-disciplinary team, this may include Salaried GPs, Nursing and Administrative teams

  Follow the company clinical performance review process

  Commit to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

  Meet CPD requirements and keep personal, mandatory and/or organisational training up to date, including any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment

  Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

  Operational Delivery - Are we Responsive?

  Support the practice in achieving contractual targets by leading on areas and mentoring staff who also lead on areas

  Support the practice operations teams to ensure that the practice stays within budget

  Participate and lead in opportunities for new or expanding services at the surgery to support the practice development plan.

  Make suggestions and act on ways to improve and enhance the team or practices performance using own, colleagues or patient feedback to promote You Said, We Listened, We Took Action

  Engagement - Is everyone working for the same outcomes?

  Maintain mutually beneficial working relationships with all stakeholders, for example NHSE, CCG, CQC, Local Authorities, LMC etc.

  Participate in the PPG and attend PPG meetings where required

  Communicate effectively with other team members.

  Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SALARIED GP AT NVP

  Patient Care - Are you Caring and Effective?

  In accordance with the Practice session timetable, you will be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery and telephone consultations ( including a fair share of the extended hours rota), visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with lab results, queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.

  Take the lead role of responsible duty doctor as part of a rota.

  Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

  Assess the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

  Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

  Support other staff such as GP trainees, PCN allied staff, ANPs and nurses with clinical queries

  Participate in proportionally shared enhanced Access hours (to be discussed) along with the other clinicians within the business. This could be Early starts, late working or occasional Saturday working.

  Governance and Risk Management - Are you/we Safe?

  Represent the practice at CQC and NHS/CCG quality monitoring inspections

  Ensure compliance with all relevant company, local and national guidelines and legislation

  Adhere to safeguarding requirements and deal appropriately with complaints, incidents and alerts using company systems and policies

  Adhere to all company clinical governance policies

  Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

  Collect data for audit purposes and for compliance with QOF requirements

  Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

  Reflect and assess own and team performance.

  Work effectively with other agencies to meet patients needs in a person centred way.

  Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

  Leadership and Development - Are we Well-Led as a practice?

  Lead on clinical areas and projects to develop the practice and enhance offerings to patients operationally and strategically.

  Mentor and provide clinical supervision for a multi-disciplinary team, this may include Salaried GPs, Nursing and Administrative teams

  Follow the company clinical performance review process

  Commit to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

  Meet CPD requirements and keep personal, mandatory and/or organisational training up to date, including any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment

  Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

  Operational Delivery - Are we Responsive?

  Support the practice in achieving contractual targets by leading on areas and mentoring staff who also lead on areas

  Support the practice operations teams to ensure that the practice stays within budget

  Participate and lead in opportunities for new or expanding services at the surgery to support the practice development plan.

  Make suggestions and act on ways to improve and enhance the team or practices performance using own, colleagues or patient feedback to promote You Said, We Listened, We Took Action

  Engagement - Is everyone working for the same outcomes?

  Maintain mutually beneficial working relationships with all stakeholders, for example NHSE, CCG, CQC, Local Authorities, LMC etc.

  Participate in the PPG and attend PPG meetings where required

  Communicate effectively with other team members.

  Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Appropriate level of primary care experience
  • Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
  • Ability to understand and work in a politically sensitive environment (Id remove, this sounds like the practice has political challenges)
  • MBBS or equivalent medical degree
  • Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
  • Inclusion on National Performers List
  • Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
  • BEHAVIOURS
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Planning & Organising
  • Delivering Innovation
  • Communicating Effectively

  Desirable

  • Responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes.
  • Evidence of involvement in clinical research in primary care.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Appropriate level of primary care experience
  • Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
  • MBBS or equivalent medical degree
  • Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
  • Inclusion on National Performers List
  • Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
  • BEHAVIOURS
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Planning & Organising
  • Patient Understanding
  • Effective Communication

  Desirable

  • Evidence of leadership in current role eg mentoring, leading safeguarding or prescribing domains or responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes
  • GCP for research training

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Appropriate level of primary care experience
  • Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
  • Ability to understand and work in a politically sensitive environment (Id remove, this sounds like the practice has political challenges)
  • MBBS or equivalent medical degree
  • Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
  • Inclusion on National Performers List
  • Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
  • BEHAVIOURS
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Planning & Organising
  • Delivering Innovation
  • Communicating Effectively

  Desirable

  • Responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes.
  • Evidence of involvement in clinical research in primary care.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Appropriate level of primary care experience
  • Sound knowledge of clinical governance, including audit and care improvement activities
  • MBBS or equivalent medical degree
  • Full registration with GMC (including GP Register)
  • Inclusion on National Performers List
  • Eligibility for Medical Indemnity Membership
  • BEHAVIOURS
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Planning & Organising
  • Patient Understanding
  • Effective Communication

  Desirable

  • Evidence of leadership in current role eg mentoring, leading safeguarding or prescribing domains or responsibility for QOF /IIF domains with evidence of successful outcomes
  • GCP for research training

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Nightingale Valley Practice

  Address

  Wick Road

  Bristol

  BS4 4HU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nightingalevalleypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Nightingale Valley Practice

  Address

  Wick Road

  Bristol

  BS4 4HU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nightingalevalleypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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