# GP - 6 mth maternity cover

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Primary Care Careers
- **Town:** Bury St Edmunds
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** General Practitioner
- **Grade:** General practitioner
- **Salary:** Depends on experience
- **Contract type:** Fixed-Term
- **Employment type:** Full-time, Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-18T15:03:06.102Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M0038-26-0687?employerCode=M0038
- **Application URL:** https://vacancies.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/vacancies/29817/gp--6-mth-maternity-cover.html

## Job Content

### Job summary

Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective GP to join our friendly team to cover maternity leave for 6 months. This position is offered on 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.

### Main duties of the job

- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to 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, 6 Salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary.

### Details

- Date posted: 18 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 6 months
- Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
- Reference number: 29817
- Job locations: Botesdale, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 1DW, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

## Person Specification

### 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.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
- Be on the NHSE medical performers list

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