Job summary
Plowright Medical Centre has a great opportunity for a salaried GP to join their busy practice, covering 4 sessions a week, to care for a growing population of appreciative patients who still value general practice.
This is an exceptional opportunity to work from award-winning premises in the thriving, attractive and historic market town of Swaffham in the heart of Norfolk. Put your roots down in a fabulous part of the country where properties are still affordable, and you can enjoy an excellent work-life balance with protected admin time and flexible working hours/days to suit family commitments.
We offer our GPs:
- 12 minute appointments.
- Stable clinical and administration team.
- Dedicated administration time.
- 6 weeks' annual leave with a week study leave pro rata.
- Support from 2 ANPs, a clinical pharmacist and a great nursing team.
- SystmOne clinical system.
- Flexible working 9:00am starts our GPs routinely do not work beyond 18.30pm.
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking 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, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion;
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation;
- Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems;
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness;
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols;
- Providing health education;
- Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards;
- Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements;
- Delivering enhanced services;
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions;
- All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
About us
Plowright Medical Centre is conveniently situated within 3050 minutes of both Norwich and Kings Lynn,surrounded by picturesque villages, beautiful countryside, and great beaches. We are a friendly, forward-looking team working in a well organised practice with a list of around 7,000 patients. The practice is semi-rural with a branch surgery in the nearby village of Necton. At the same time as being traditional, relaxed, supportive and friendly, we are also highly organised and efficient, with tremendous support teams, this enables the GPs to concentrate on the work for which their skills are best utilised.
We are part of the Swaffham and Downham PCN and have full support and access to a diverse healthcare team including, health and wellbeing coach, mental health practitioners, physiotherapists, social prescribers, pharmacists and practice funded in-house counsellors.
We use SystmOne and have a full complement of back office staff removing some GP admin workloads, with a very strong IT, admin and secretarial support.The practice receives a high QOF achievement annually and receives great feedback from our patients.
Details
- Date posted: 14 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £11,500 to £12,000 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 29910
- Job locations: 1 Jack Bobby Way, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7HJ, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services;
- 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;
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety;
- Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
- Be on the NHSE medical performers list
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