GPGP Practice

Job summary

Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective GP to join our friendly team in Botesdale. This is offered for 6-8 sessions per week.

The post-holder will manage a caseload and 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.

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Main duties of the job

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

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

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

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.

About us

We are a rural GMS 10,000 patient surgery with 4 Partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.

Details

Date posted

30 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

• depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

29895-2

Job locations

Botesdale

Diss

Norfolk

IP22 1DW

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this

role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)

Be on the NHSE medical performers list

Experience

Essential

Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services;

Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date;

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety;

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

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

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

Primary Care Careers

Address

Botesdale

Diss

Norfolk

IP22 1DW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care Careers

Address

Botesdale

Diss

Norfolk

IP22 1DW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)