Maternity GP Cover

Job summary

Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Hamble Valley Health.

We are looking for a maternity cover, this will be for 12 months, 6 sessions per week across 3 days, which would include a holding list.

The Practice is committed to delivering high-quality patient care which requires us to have a supportive and cohesive team.

The location will be across Hedge End Medical Centre, Blackthorn Health Centre, and Bursledon Surgery.

We offer Terms and Conditions equivalent to the BMA model contract. We are happy to consider newly qualified GPs as well as experienced GPs.

We very much look forward to receiving your application.

The Partners

Hamble Valley Health

Main duties of the job

This post has a base as their main site at Blackthorn Health Centre. On a rolling basis, you will also work in our Urgent Care Centre which is at Bursledon Surgery. This is on a fair share rota. In the same way, you will be our "operational director" around once every 3-4 weeks. This means you are the clinical lead for the urgent care centre in the practice. This requires a longer working day (8am to 6.30pm).

Routine care is generally 13 appointments in the morning and 12 in the afternoon. Mornings are generally 8am-1pm, and afternoons 2pm-6pm. We are a single practice Primary Care Network. We have visiting paramedics, so apart from terminal care, visits are rare. You will be responsible for the prescriptions, pathology results and incoming correspondence for your list size. On average, you will manage around 40 prescriptions a week, 20 results a week, and 5 letters a week per session. We have robust processes in place to support prescribing and document workflow.

About us

Blackthorn Health Centre and Hedge End Medical Centre have merged and are now known as Hamble Valley Health. Our list size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly concentrated in Hamble, Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide high quality, accessible medical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a supportive and pleasant working environment for clinicians and staff.

We are part of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB and offer General Medical Services to our patients.

We are a training practice and take registrar doctors and also teach medical students from Southampton School of Medicine.

The practice has seven Partners. The current Partnership team is Dr Harris, Dr Cropley, Dr Graham, Dr Sonpal, Dr Shahsavanspour, Dr Yates and Dr McKenzie.

We employ fourteen salaried GPs, five Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nursing team of fifteen, and a reception/admin team of seventy.

The practice uses Emis as a clinical system. We are paper light, so scan all incoming correspondence onto patients medical records.

Details

• Date posted: 16 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: Depending on experience Competitive
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: A3652-26-0013
• Job locations: Blackthorn Health Centre, Satchell Lane, Hamble, Southampton, SO31 4NQ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• 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 including appropriate coding and use of electronic templates and other electronic systems as agreed.
• 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).