Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
1 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
UK GP Experience
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
MRCP or similiar
Job overview
We are looking for a qualified General Practitioner ( GP) to work part time as the named GP to cover inpatients at Helston Community hospital. Patients are predominantly admitted for rehabilitation and reablement following an acute hospital stay, or for end of life care. There is provision of a nurse-led CHAD service on the ward.
You will review each patient at least weekly and form part of a multi-disciplinary team, working with the patient to enable discharge to their own place of residence as promptly as possible. You will be supported by a resident doctor and an experienced nursing team providing nurse-led care.
There are opportunities to be involved in service development or the opportunity to develop medical leadership through other parts of the Trust (eg learning from deaths, medical student training, quality improvement projects).
The role can be sessional/part time and hours can be flexible to suit the candidates work/life balance.
Main duties of the job
In liaison with the senior nurses on the ward, provide senior medical decision-making to inpatients on community hospital ward.
Provide medical input into the MDT management of patients.
Support patient flow and alternatives to admission in keeping with 'hospital to home' NHS plan
Contribute to advanced care planning (eg TEP) and end of life care.
Supervise and contribute to teaching and training of junior doctors (including GP trainees), medical students, ANPs and other AHPs
Liaise with patients, families and carers regarding their medical care
Liaise with other medical specialities eg Eldercare, Palliative care for specialist advice where needed.
Contribute to governance, incidents, learning, complaints and other process (eg legal) for the patients you have managed. Support the Clinical Director in the same.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this role please refer to the job description and person specification document
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This advert is for Salaried GP with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Bodmin, England. It is listed as a General practitioner Medical doctor General Practitioner role. The advertised salary is £101436 - £110853 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Sep 2025.
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