Face to Face GP – Out of Hours Service – Oxfordshire: Sponsorship Available

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

We are recruiting for a GP to join our Out of Hours Service in Oxfordshire where you’ll provide community-based urgent care that is both innovative and integrated. This is a varied, interesting, and rewarding role where you’ll work as part of a wider team that provides urgent medical care from 6.30pm to 8.00am on weekdays and around the clock at weekends and bank holidays.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (OHFT) Primary, Community and Dental Care Directorate comprises of several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients, close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care. One of these is the Out of Hours service (OOH) which provides urgent primary care to patients across Oxfordshire when normal primary care is closed.

You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing face to face care either in a base clinic location, at the patient’s home (home visiting) and/or remote telephone consultations from a Trust location. You’ll be working at one of our base sites in Bicester, Banbury, Oxford, Witney, Abingdon or Henley (with some ability to cross cover).

If you’re a motivated GP looking to make a real difference in urgent community care while working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, we’d love to hear from you–apply today and help us deliver high-quality care to patients across Oxfordshire when they need it most.

Main duties of the job

  • Assess, treat and manage patients presenting to the OOH service requiring same day urgent care that cannot wait for when normal primary care is open.
  • Working out of a base location, you will be required to care for patients from birth through to those patients requiring end of life care. Skills and experience in managing patients that are acutely unwell are essential as well as recognition of illness that requires further intervention from primary care, community and social services or secondary care.
  • This is a hands-on role and experience of palliative care and urinary catheterisation would also be helpful when working as a GP in the OOH service, but further learning and training can be provided.
  • You will also provide senior medical support and advice to non-medical practitioners working as part of the MDT in the OOH service and work in an integrated way with other same day and urgent care services provided by OHFT.
  • As part of this role you will also be required to support and supervise trainee GPs and non-medical practitioners and undertake research and clinical audit.

This is a substantive and on-site role for a minimum of 17 hours per week (plus CPD) and up to full time hours if supported by shift times and length of shift; flexible hours can be considered that fit within the service model.A working pattern (depending on preference of the successful candidate and availability of shifts) may include weekday evenings, weekends and/or overnight shifts.

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

  • Full GMC registration with licence to practice as a General Practitioner
  • Inclusion on a Medical Performers List
  • Up to date with appraisal and revalidation requirements
  • Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)

Experience

Essential

  • Active NHS clinical experience in:- General Practice with demonstrable experience in providing urgent care

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working in an urgent care or OOH setting

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to make appropriate assessments in the management of Primary Care patients
  • Ability to use the current evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making

Desirable

  • Experience of leading on complaints and Serious Incident investigations

Clinical Skills

Essential

  • Autonomously assess, treat and manage all patients with undifferentiated illness
  • Ability to manage patients remotely without direct face to face clinical assessment where appropriate to do so.

Desirable

  • Provision and knowledge of palliative care
  • Wound care and Minor Injuries

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: 31 August 2026

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