Urgent Treatment Centre Salaried General Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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.

Person Specification

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

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 21 September 2026

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