Role Summary
Castle Place GP Practice has a unique and exciting opportunity for 5 sessions (21 hours) Salaried GP per week but flexible for the right candidate to join our friendly team. Starting salary is competitive.
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we’ll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you’re starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You’ll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You’ll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
Castle Place GP Practice has a unique and exciting opportunity for 5 sessions (21 hours) Salaried GP per week but flexible for the right candidate to join our friendly team. Starting salary is competitive.
Castle Place Practice is part of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is uniquely positioned to thrive in the ongoing development of integrated care in the Eastern Devon System. A friendly practice within a market town holding 14,100 patients on its list this is an exciting time to join the team.
As part of an NHS foundation trust, this post will benefit from full indemnity cover, an NHS pension and opportunities for involvement in development projects with the wider organisation.
We are located within spacious modern premises adjacent to a community hospital with a wide range of services including radiology, inpatients and urgent care. We are very much a team-based practice with a democratic approach across specialities. We pride ourselves on providing excellent care with a supportive ethos. We meet regularly throughout the day including at morning huddle and coffee.
Our multi skilled team extend to Nurses/ANPs/Pharmacists/Paramedic/Physio and being a teaching and training practice makes this a dynamic place to work. We are one of two practices within Tiverton PCN which makes us an effective size for collaboration. Work life balance is important to us and maintaining enthusiasm for general practice through learning and development. Homeworking for 1 day a week is possible if preferred and through teamwork we do not let work accumulate.
As we strengthen our partnership with the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which delivers acute, community and primary care across the region, we are developing opportunities for greater collaboration with a huge range of specialties and this will include opportunities for portfolio working to enhance the care provided to patients as well as strengthen our local workforce and we are keen for this post to be part of developing these opportunities.
As an organisation, we are able to provide Tier 2 sponsorship
If you feel you have the qualities to become part of the Castle Place team, we would be pleased to hear from you and welcome informal visits.
Please contact the surgery on 01884 244 706/07503 214 864 or email either the Practice Manager, Isata Fullah, isata.fullah1@nhs.net or our Clinical Lead, Dr Megan Parkin, on meganparkin@nhs.net.
Interview date: TBC
Please disregard the closing date in the PDF Job Description.
Benefits
We offer a fantastic benefits package with competitive pay rates, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years, access to the NHS Pension Scheme to which you and the Trust contribute. Our Medical workforce has separate arrangements. Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, support for flexible working and access to an On-site Ofsted graded ‘Outstanding’ Nursery. We promote a healthy work life balance, provide an Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have a number of NHS discounts available either directly through ourselves or online through NHS Discounts. As part of our recruitment process we can tell you more about our benefits package and you will see that we offer everything you would expect and more!
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides Acute and Community services across Exeter and East Devon serving a population of more than 450,000 people. In our latest CQC full inspection of our services, the Royal Devon received an overall rating of “good”. We were rated as “outstanding” for our Emergency and Critical Care services, and for Caring Trustwide.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked as the joint best performing non-specialist Trust in the country for overall patient experience of care in the 2016 Care Quality Commission (CQC) Adult Inpatient Survey.
Enjoy a good quality of life in the South West and be part of our caring workforce.
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
