Salaried GP
Job Description
Job summary
We are looking for someone to join the Cathedral Medical Centre which is based at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely and serves 11,500 patients. You will be someone who believes in our vision for high quality, locally relevant primary care, at scale, and who wants to actively engage in our delivery of that vision. Whatever stage youre at in your career, undertaking between 13-15 clinical contacts per session, you will have a passion for medicine, for learning, and for finding solutions or new ways of working. You will be excited by the prospect of embracing new technologies and keen to transform the way we deliver care. You will be the kind of GP who thrives in a collaborative team, are confident to seek support when you need it and supporting of your peers when they do. You will seek learning from challenge, and humour from life.
Main duties of the job
We want you to be able to do the best work of your career, confident in your care and proud of the outcomes you achieve for your patients. We work hard to ensure that our GPs are motivated and engaged in contributing to a supportive culture of mutual learning. Mereside practices are well-regarded for GP, student and nurse training. We enjoy weekly clinical meetings, quarterly half day closures, and daily coffee meetings for clinical discussions and case sharing.
About us
Mereside Medical is a flourishing group of three East Cambridgeshire practices in Ely, Haddenham and Soham, together serving over 42,500 patients. As a group, weve grown rapidly and now employ more than 140 people across the three practices. We are people-centred in our approach to work and believe that every contact that a patient has with our staff is as valuable as the next in the patient journey. We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of well-being in our community. We are innovative and forward-looking, and we embrace technology to enable more effective, efficient, and connected ways of working to deliver ever better outcomes for our patients.
Our goal is to deliver on the ambitions laid out in the GP forward view in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and satisfying for our staff. In addition to our core general practice work we run a large clinical research trials unit and we work closely with the ICB to develop innovative ways to improve local service provision. We are the lead practice for one of the two local PCNs and are represented in both.
Job responsibilities
General Practice at Mereside
Our approach is innovative and forward-looking, and dedicated to excellent clinical outcomes.
We want you to be able to do the best work of your career, confident in your care and proud of the outcomes you achieve for your patients. We work hard to ensure that our GPs are motivated and engaged in contributing to a supportive culture of mutual learning. Mereside practices are well-regarded for GP, student and nurse training. We enjoy weekly clinical meetings, quarterly half day closures, and daily coffee meetings for clinical discussions and case sharing.
We are purposeful in our efforts to manage GP workload and ensure sustainability, having developed a diverse and large team of support staff over recent years. Admin teams process letters, enact medication changes, and undertake medication reviews. We have clinical support from a large nursing team and Advanced Practitioner team. The duty team consists of a duty GP supported by Advanced Practitioners and nurses working together in the same room, creating a collaborative, supportive environment in which to manage the on-the-day workload together.
We embrace technology to enable more effective and efficient ways of working. All practices use SystmOne and AskMyGP for managing patient queries, meaning our waiting time for appointments is zero and our accessibility rating is excellent. We use MS Teams to enable regular video meetings across sites and facilitate more rapid collaborative working.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for someone to join the Cathedral Medical Centre which is based at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely and serves 11,500 patients. You will be someone who believes in our vision for high quality, locally relevant primary care, at scale, and who wants to actively engage in our delivery of that vision. Whatever stage you're at in your career, undertaking between 13-15 clinical contacts per session, you will have a passion for medicine, for learning, and for finding solutions or new ways of working. You will be excited by the prospect of embracing new technologies and keen to transform the way we deliver care. You will be the kind of GP who thrives in a collaborative team, are confident to seek support when you need it and supporting of your peers when they do. You will seek learning from challenge, and humour from life.
In addition to the benefits outlined below, we offer mentoring and support on-going career progression via our GP framework. We understand how important it is to offer genuinely flexible working, and are always open to a conversation about what working arrangements would suit your personal circumstances. If you're the right fit for us, then we'll do our best to be the right fit for you.
The career progression framework for salaried GPs is designed to accommodate different levels of experience and lifestyle choices. The framework provides for mentoring from senior clinicians and a structured career path for those who wish to progress further within general practice.
We are looking to employ one or more salaried GPs to fill these sessions at either:
- GP-1 13 clinical contacts, £11.3k per session; or
- GP-2 15 clinical contacts, £12.5k per session
Both rates are prior to the 2025 DDRB review.
We offer the following benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Contribution to relocation costs
- Mentorship from a Partner or Lead GP
- Medical Defence Organisation fees paid
- Six weeks holiday plus bank holidays and one week study leave (pro-rated)
- Flexible working arrangements to balance your commitments in and outside of work
- Tier 2 Visa sponsor
- GP career progression framework
- Support to newly qualified GPs on the Fellowship scheme.
To join our team please send your CV and covering letter to: cpicb.mereside-recruitment@nhs.net
For informal enquiries please contact:
- Dr James Howard - jhoward11@nhs.net, or
- Dr Antoinette Hadida Savvas - anttoinette.hadidasavvas@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified GP
Desirable
- Primary Care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Mereside Medical Group
Address
Cathedral Medical Centre
Lynn Road
Ely
Cambridgeshire
CB6 1DN
