West Suffolk Rural PCN are currently looking to welcome a GP under the ARRS scheme to work alongside our team based at Wickhambrook Surgery. This position is part-time basis, flexible to 4-6 sessions per week.
Wickhambrook Surgery is a happy and thriving rural 3 partner GMS GP practice, just over the Cambridgeshire border in the beautiful rural Suffolk countryside. We are a dispensing GP practice with a clear focus on delivering the highest quality patient care to our 5300 patients. We are highly regarded by our practice population, with 90% of our patients rating the practice as fairly good (30%) or very good (60%) in the 2024 national GP Patient Survey.
Services are provided from a purpose built one storey building, and the surgery with our patient group is very much at the heart of the local community. We have no care homes within the practice catchment area.
We offer a competitive salary and recognise the importance of a healthy work life balance.
The practice has a long and successful history of balancing the needs of the practice population along with the wellbeing of the staff, and we recognise the importance of both. We offer:
- Regular peer support through meetings to discuss complex cases or concerns
- Opportunity for a chat and catch up over coffee daily
- Training practice – we teach trainees as well as medical students from UEA and University of Cambridge Medical schools
- PCN ARRS team: Social Prescriber, First Contact Physiotherapist, Clinical Pharmacist. Care Coordinators and Health and Wellbeing Coaches
- Good relationship with our community teams with a virtual MDT once a month with community providers, social care, mental health and voluntary organisations
- Training and personal development encouraged and supported
Informal visits and enquiries are welcome.
Please see attached job description for further details.