Maternity Cover Locum GPNHS

Job summary

GP locum to cover Maternity leave

The vacancy is for a maternity locum GP for 6 sessions per week to join their team from November 2026

Main duties of the job

As a maternity locum GP you will provide cover for a salaried GP while on maternity leave, managing a caseload and dealing with a wide variety of health needs in a primary care setting working individually and as a team to ensure a high standard of care for all registered and temporary patients as you carry out the associated clinical and administrative duties.

Job description

The duties of the post are to provide cover for a salaried GP while on maternity leave, including a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed appropriate.

The post holder is expected to support the partners of The Beckington Family Practice in providing all services outlined in the GMS Core Contract and also in the aims and objectives of the Practice.

The post holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework (or its replacement), enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice.

The post holders prescribing should be according to accepted clinical practice and guidance for acute and repeat prescriptions. It should follow practice policies and procedures, e.g. use of formulary and management of repeat prescribing.

The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records at all times. Full involvement in any practice training is expected.

The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.

About us

We are a friendly, well established and growing semi-rural training practice based south of Bath, with an ethos for a high standard of patient care.

We seek to preserve the best of traditional family practice with a willingness to adapt and modernise to ensure a continuing high standard of care to patients with a sustainable work environment.

GMS Practice list size 11,500

Four partners, seven salaried GPs, one ANP and one Paramedic Practitioner

Three First Contact Physiotherapists, two PCN Paramedics, Health Connector, PCN Pharmacists and two PCN Pharmacy Technicians

Purpose built main surgery in Beckington, modern branch surgery in Frome Health Centre

Sessions with twelve x 15 minute appointments

Virtually no home visits, visiting paramedics

Dispensing at main site

EMIS web across both sites (planned transition to Medicus in November)

Total triage

Established training and teaching Practice

Shared network cover of enhanced access

Part of Mendip PCN

Salary £12,285 per session per year