Vacancy Description:

Are you a GP who prefers to locum?
Want to work in a friendly, supportive team?
Looking for work that fits around other personal and professional commitments?

This could be the place for you! We’re looking for locum GPs at Riverside Medical Practice and are flexible about how many sessions a week you do – whatever your need, please contact us for a chat. We can also accommodate school drop-offs and pick ups. We’re located close to both Edinburgh City Centre and East Lothian’s fabulous beaches.

We’re a Vision Practice who offer 15 minute appointments. 26 appointments per day – our locum GPs don’t do home visits, duty doctor or docman, it’s all about seeing patients 🙂

We’re a busy surgery (list size 19,600) located in an area with significant health inequality – so we’re looking for GPs who are passionate about working in this type of environment and who really want to make a difference. It’s clinically interesting work, with many different types of pathology.

This is a unique Practice where same-day care is broadly managed by a nurse-led local health board team, located next door to us. This means our GPs have more time to provide care to more complex patients, with 15-minute appointments as standard. Direct access local health board-run MSK, CTACS and mental health services are also available to our patients, again making sure your time is spent with the patients who most need your care.

We have a stable, 50-strong team at the Practice, with a number of WTE GPs which compares favourably to national averages. We also have six specialist clinicians – including three triage nurse practitioners, two chronic disease nurse specialists and a specialist paramedic – as well as treatment room nursing and phlebotomy. Embedded staff working in the Practice include a substance use nurse; pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; and Community Linkworkers. Our care home resident patients are cared for by a dedicated local health board team, with support from our Care Home Lead GP.

We have sound support in place for emergencies – with a specialist paramedic and other members of our large team always available – and well-stocked, accessible emergency kits. You won’t find yourself managing an emergency on your own here.

We have four supportive GP partners, a great call handling team and the other usual operational support staff. Feedback from our team is that we’re a genuinely welcoming and well-organised Practice, with mature processes in place.

We’re located close to both Edinburgh City Centre and East Lothian’s fabulous beaches. The Practice is located in a purpose-built health centre with plentiful consulting rooms, kitchen, sun terrace and onsite parking. Sweet treats are always on hand, with regular staff events and fun things planned. We make sure all new team members have a settling in period, to get used to Practice processes, IT etc.

You must be on – or able to join – the relevant Scottish Performers List. We typically offer £250/session.

We look forward to hearing from you!