Job requirements
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Essential
17 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Emergency Medicine
- Experience
Experience of remote and rural practice and community hospitals
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Ability to work as part of the team but also with capabilities to work under own direction
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Make complex clinical decisions, including differential diagnosis and clinical management, based on an in-depth knowledge and interpretation of clinical and diagnostic investigations.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Have the ability to quickly assess and respond to patients’ timely needs in emergency situations.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Recognise own limitations and the requirement for appropriate referral.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Assess the patients’ complex needs (physical, psychological, social, and spiritual) to establish change in condition, inform clinical decision-making and plan care.
- Personal Qualities and Interpersonal Skills
Self-motivated, able to work without supervision, using own initiative to complete tasks.
- Personal Qualities and Interpersonal Skills
Expert communicator, able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Personal Qualities and Interpersonal Skills
Well-developed influencing skills combined with a facilitative and supportive style of working.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
MBChB (or equivalent primary medical degree)
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Full Registration with GMC
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Registered with a licence to practise at the point of taking up the post.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Eligible for entry onto the GMC GP Register/NHS Western Isles performers list (GP CCT or GP VTS PMETB or Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice Certificate of prescribed experience/Certificate of equivalent experience).
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Must be included on NHS Western Isles Performers list and registered with the GMC.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Must be a member of a recognised medical defence society.
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
Recent evidence of continued academic and professional development
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Community hospital inpatient experience
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
Basics
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
ALS
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
NLS
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
ATLS
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
EPLS or APLS
- Continuing Professional Development and Training
ALSO
Job details
- Job reference: 254633
- Salary: Salaried GP (£77,160 - £115,167)
- Job closing date: 29/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Benbecula Medical Practice
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 01/09/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Western Isles
- Department: Primary Care
Rural Acute GP – UIST AND BENBECULA
GP DOCTOR GRADE
£79,861 to £119,198 plus 40% enhancement
Plus Distant Island Allowance £1,461 per annum
41 days Annual Leave per annum
Permanent Post
THE POST IS ELIGIBLE FOR RELOCATION EXPENSES
and the Golden Hello scheme – £10,000
The Isles of Uist and Benbecula offer a warm welcome and are teeming with life, activity and culture.
It is in this unique, safe and idyllic location that a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a GP to join our new 2C medical practice.
We are ready and excited to welcome a GP with a sense of adventure and a passion for remote and rural medicine to escape the rat race and embrace a more healthy work-life balance with NHS Western Isles.
The post will be based in Benbecula Medical Practice, an island scattered with lochs and lochans, endless sea and spectacular seascapes and surroundings. The post holder will be able to use and further develop their skills and experience through the provision of community hospital medical cover, which is also part of this role. Uist and Barra Hospital (Ospadal Uibhist agus Bharraigh) is a 17-bed community hospital, where the wider team prides itself in providing gold-standard care for patients.
We are looking for self-reliant and highly-motivated GP to join our multi-disciplinary team, working closely with our Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, wider Community Nursing Team, and other primary care specialist clinicians, including our Primary Care Pharmacist and First Contact Physiotherapist. Peer support will also be provided from consultant teams in Stornoway and from mainland colleagues, including emergency retrieval teams.
The role covering a wide remit will appeal to an experienced GP, but also those earlier in their careers looking for the challenge of widening their clinical skills and providing holistic care in a remote but supported environment. The role presents an excellent opportunity for the development of skills and confidence, with the remote-island location providing an unrivalled extra sense of responsibility and reward. The ability, drive and commitment to work as part of a team, sometimes at a distance, and to contribute to the local development of primary care and acute services is important. You will be expected to support clinical colleagues, including medical, nursing, mental health and Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues.
We look forward to welcoming you to our team.
For further information and an informal chat please contact Dr Clare Carolann, Associate Medical Director. or Michelle Taylor Family Health Services Manager michelle.taylor44@nhs.scot.
The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) Scheme.
All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ along with a job description.
Tha beàrnan-obrach NHS Eilean Siar uile gu léir a' nochdadh air làrach-lìn NHS na h-Alba https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/, còmhla ri dealbh-obrach.
CLOSING DATE: 29/09/2026
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This advert is for Rural Acute GP with NHS Western Isles in Stornoway, Scotland. It is listed as a General practitioner Medical doctor General Practitioner role. The advertised salary is £77,160 - £115,167. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Sep 2026.
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