# Locum General Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for BrisDoc Healthcare Services.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** BrisDoc Healthcare Services
- **Location:** Osprey Court
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** General Practitioner
- **Grade:** General practitioner
- **Salary:** £70 - £150 £70 - £150 per hour
- **Contract type:** Locum: 1 day
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Other, Hours to be offered as and when needed
- **Closing date:** 2027-01-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24T08:41:19.561Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bristol/Bristol/BrisDoc_Healthcare_Services/General_Practice/General_Practice-v8285951
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8285951?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://brisdoc.co.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

As a SevernSide IUC Self-Employed GP your role will involve, managing a wide range of clinical presentations in urgent care settings, supporting patients via telephone, video, or face-to-face consultations, prescribing effectively, including adjustments to end-of-life care, maintaining thorough documentation for continuity of care, as well as mentoring new clinicians and contributing to peak-demand rotas.

For further details please click here: Locum / Self-employed GP Roles – SevernSide IUC – BrisDoc Healthcare Services

### Main duties of the job

- Assess and manage the full breadth of clinical presentations and age groups which present in the urgent primary care setting, including physical and mental health needs
- Take telephone referrals from Health Care professionals within the BNSSG area for appropriate adult medical admissions whilst being sensitive to the capacity issues of the hosting acute trust
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills with referring HCPs, in order to build positive relationships so that alternative management ideas can be discussed without confrontation
- Gain familiarity with the other urgent care services available in the BNSSG system, and how to access these for patient
- Undertake clinical work by telephone +/- video, consulting with patients and/ or their representatives and healthcare professionals in the community to appropriately assess the current concerns, establish an appropriate differential diagnosis and management plan.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Assess and manage the full breadth of clinical presentations and age groups which present in the urgent primary care setting, including physical and mental health needs
- Take telephone referrals from Health Care professionals within the BNSSG area for appropriate adult medical admissions whilst being sensitive to the capacity issues of the hosting acute trust
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills with referring HCPs, in order to build positive relationships so that alternative management ideas can be discussed without confrontation
- Gain familiarity with the other urgent care services available in the BNSSG system, and how to access these for patient
- Undertake clinical work by telephone +/- video, consulting with patients and/ or their representatives and healthcare professionals in the community to appropriately assess the current concerns, establish an appropriate differential diagnosis and management plan
- Seek to support community management wherever possible, but be able to recognise serious illness and emergency situations requiring admission and/ or an ambulance respons
- Be able to prescribe appropriately for the urgent primary care context, including initiating and changing end of life medication
- Document the key findings from their assessment, such that the notes provide appropriate detail to log the assessment at the time, and support other clinicians who may be involved later in the patient’s journey
- Seek clinical advice from the senior GP on shift (the Clinical Coordinator where applicable) when required to support clinical decision making and access to appropriate service
- Use all IT systems required for safe clinical work in IUC, including the clinical systems (CLEO, PACS and EMIS), resources available to support clinical decision making (the Clinical Toolkit, BrisDoc weblinks, Remedy
- Be proactive about identifying and reporting concerns and incidents, to support continued learning and improvement in the service provided to patien

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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