Job requirements
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Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Qualifications
Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
- Qualifications
Be on the NHSE medical performers list
- All applicants should have skills including:
Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services;
- All applicants should have skills including:
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;
- All applicants should have skills including:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety;
- All applicants should have skills including:
Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice;
- All applicants should have skills including:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
Mount Farm Surgery is seeking a salaried GP to join our friendly, supportive, and well-established practice team on a 6 month fixed term contract to provide maternity cover from September 2026. We are flexible to sessions worked so please apply to discuss.
Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to support and care for a diverse patient group.
Main duties of the job
The role will include all general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, as well as undertaking a variety of duties, including :
- surgery consultations
- telephone consultations and queries
- visiting patients at home
- checking and signing repeat prescriptions
- dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion
About us
Mount Farm Surgery is an innovative and professional teaching practice in Suffolk, located on the outskirts of the cathedral town of Bury St. Edmunds with close links to the A14.
Our practice team consists of 10 GPs plus a dedicated clinical team including GP trainees, ECPs, ACPs, a clinical pharmacist, nurses, and HCAs. We have a dedicated management team, plus a large team of other administrative staff.
Our membership of Bury St Edmunds PCN ensures we have an extended team which includes a paramedic home visiting service, on site clinical pharmacists, a practice based social prescriber and 2 care co-ordinators.
Rated Good in all areas at most recent CQC inspection
- SystmOne clinical system
- Electronic Prescribing System
- Highly respected training practice
- Regular clinical/educational meetings
- Mentoring scheme for salaried GPs and other clinical staff
- Non-personalised lists with equitable division of workload and capped workload for salaried GPs
- Paper light and embracing new technology
Details
- Date posted: 03 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Locum
- Duration: 6 months
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 29665-2
- Job locations: Lawson Pl,, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7EW, 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Salaried GP - fixed term with Primary Care Careers in Bury St Edmunds, England. It is listed as a General practitioner Medical doctor General Practitioner role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is Locum. The application deadline is 31 Oct 2026.
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