Community Hospital GP - Bicester and Oxford City

Job overview

Are you a compassionate GP looking for a rewarding, flexible role that makes a real difference to patient recovery?

We are recruiting for a part-time GP to join our Bicester and City Community Hospitals on a 12 month fixed term contract working 8 hours per week on a Wednesday.

You'll be providing medical care for patients across both sites, spending half a day on each ward. You’ll work as part of a highly supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering holistic care to adults with frailty and complex needs. This is a unique opportunity to focus on comprehensive geriatric assessment, rehabilitation, and patient-centred care in a ward-based environment — without the pressures of out-of-hours work.

This role could offer you:

• Meaningful patient relationships and clinical impact
• Collaborative MDT working with excellent support
• Leadership, teaching, and development opportunities
• No current weekend or out-of-hours commitments

We are looking for candidates who have a full GMC registration with licence to practice, have completed GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP and have NHS clinical experience with older adults who have complex, multi-morbidity, frailty, and functional impairment. If you’re looking for a fulfilling role with real work-life balance — we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Proactive assessment of new admissions, including medical clerking within the clinical IT system, medication review, completion of drug charts, and agreement of an initial escalation plan.
• Working collaboratively with the MDT throughout the patient’s admission to complete a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and to develop an advanced care plan, incorporating patient and family input.
• Responding to medical concerns as they arise, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and onward referral where appropriate.
• Conducting a planned, formal weekly ward round to review all patients
• Attending MDT meetings and board reviews, providing leadership in patient recovery planning and facilitating timely discharge.
• Providing senior clinical support and supervision to trainee doctors and both trainee and qualified Advanced Care Practitioners.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues in community services, including Intensive Community Care and First Contact Care Pathways.
• Undertaking clinically related administrative duties, including reviewing investigation results and completing discharge summaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oxford Health’s Community Hospitals provide inpatient care to patients across Oxfordshire. There are 8 wards across 6 sites in Witney, Abingdon, Bicester, Oxford, Wallingford and Didcot. The wards specialise in frailty and the rehabilitation of adults (age 18 and over) stepping down from acute hospital care or stepping up from the community. The hospital also occasionally provides palliative care.

Community Hospitals | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust