# Salaried GP / Maternity Cover **Company**: Broomwood Health Centre **Location**: Orpington, Kent **Job type**: fixed-term **Salary**: £11,000 a session **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2575-26-0000?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1c3139a1-142 ## Description Broomwood Health Centre is seeking a dedicated maternity locum GP for a fixed-term contract starting in Nov 2026, with a duration of at least 12 months. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive general medical services to patients registered with the practice during the period of maternity leave cover. **Key Responsibilities:** - Manage GP Triage dashboard / online consultations - Provide consultations to patients presenting with acute, chronic, and undifferentiated conditions - Undertake clinical assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients - Provide face-to-face, telephone, and other appropriate forms of consultation - Prescribe safely and appropriately in accordance with current clinical guidance - Refer patients appropriately to secondary care, community services, and other healthcare professionals - Arrange appropriate investigations and interpret results within the scope of professional competence - Provide appropriate follow-up and safety-netting advice - Undertake management and review of patients with long-term conditions as required - Manage urgent and same-day clinical presentations according to practice arrangements - Undertake home visits where required and agreed within the practice's arrangements - Maintain accurate, contemporaneous, and clinically appropriate patient records - Complete clinical correspondence, referrals, reports, and other documentation arising from consultations - Review and action investigation results, correspondence, and other clinical information within agreed practice systems - Recognise and appropriately manage patients requiring urgent or emergency care **Clinical Governance and Quality:** - Participate in clinical governance and quality improvement activities - Contribute to significant event reviews and clinical audits where appropriate - Work in accordance with local and national clinical guidelines - Comply with practice policies and procedures - Participate in safeguarding processes and raise concerns appropriately - Maintain appropriate standards of infection prevention and control - Report clinical incidents, risks, and significant events in accordance with practice procedures - Maintain professional competence and undertake appropriate continuing professional development - Participate in appraisal and revalidation in accordance with GMC requirements **Team Working and Communication:** - Work effectively as a member of the practice's multidisciplinary team - Communicate appropriately with GP colleagues, nursing staff, pharmacists, allied health professionals, administrative staff, and external healthcare providers - Participate in practice and clinical meetings as required - Contribute to effective communication and continuity of patient care - Provide appropriate clinical advice and support to other members of the clinical team within the scope of professional competence **Professional Responsibilities:** - Maintain full compliance with GMC professional standards - Maintain patient confidentiality at all times - Comply with information governance and data protection requirements - Work within the limits of professional competence and seek appropriate advice when required - Maintain appropriate professional indemnity arrangements - Comply with practice health and safety policies - Comply with safeguarding policies and procedures - Undertake duties in accordance with the practice's equality, diversity, and inclusion policies **Benefits:** - 6 weeks annual leave - NHS Pension - Medical Indemnity subscription paid by the practice - Manageable workload / admin **Requirements:** - GMC registration with a licence to practise - Inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List - MRCGP or equivalent - Appropriate professional indemnity arrangements - Satisfactory completion of relevant employment and pre-employment checks - Experience of working in UK general practice - Experience in the assessment and management of a broad range of acute and chronic conditions - Experience of multidisciplinary working - Experience of working within clinical governance and safeguarding frameworks ## Skills ### Required - GMC registration - MRCGP - professional indemnity arrangements - UK general practice experience - clinical governance - safeguarding --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2575-26-0000?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)