Job overview
Join our substantive GP team supporting the transformation of urgent care across Poole and Bournemouth UTCs.
You’ll work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality assessment and treatment for patients presenting with urgent and minor illness and injury.
What we offer:
- Competitive NHS salary and benefits
- Substantive employment and career development
- Cross-site working across Poole and Bournemouth UTCs
- Supportive, modern multidisciplinary working
- Opportunity to contribute to the development of a 24/7 Poole UTC
Join us and help shape the future of urgent care across Dorset.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- Assess, investigate, diagnose, treat and safely manage patients presenting with urgent, undifferentiated illness and minor injury within the Urgent Treatment Centres.
- Deliver high-quality urgent primary care across both Poole and Bournemouth Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting service resilience and equitable patient access.
- Provide senior clinical decision-making, ensuring safe, effective and timely management of patients in accordance with national and local clinical guidance.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including Advanced Practitioners, Nursing staff and Allied Health Professionals, to deliver coordinated patient-centred care.
- Determine the most appropriate onward management for patients, including discharge with advice, referral to community or primary care services, or escalation to secondary care where clinically indicated.
- Support the avoidance of unnecessary Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions by managing appropriate patients within the Urgent Treatment Centre.
- Contribute to maintaining patient flow through timely assessment, treatment and discharge planning.
- Participate in clinical governance activities including audit, quality improvement, incident investigation and learning.
- Work flexibly across both Urgent Treatment Centre sites to meet service demands and support operational resilience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates are advised to please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further details.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Able to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients in the UTC
- Understanding and commitment to clinical governance issues
Desirable
- Minor injury management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Extended skills in musculoskeletal medicine, dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology or women's health.
- Ability to interpret plain radiographs
Education, Qualifications and Special Training
Essential
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a Licence to Practise.
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice or CESR equivalent.
- MRCGP or equivalent recognised qualification.
Desirable
- Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP).
- Additional postgraduate qualification relevant to Urgent or Emergency Care
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This advert is for Urgent Treatment Centre Salaried General Practitioner with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in Poole Hospital. It is listed as a General practitioner Medical doctor General Practitioner role. The advertised salary is £98,729 Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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