General Practitioner | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £76,038 - £114,743 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 October 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7460943/432-MC2741 |
Summary
General Practitioner – Urgent Treatment Centre, Colchester Hospital
Location: Colchester Hospital
Service: Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC)
Shift Availability: 07:00–00:00, 7 days a week (including weekends and Bank Holidays)
Join Our Team
We’re looking for qualified, experienced, and motivated General Practitioners to join our multidisciplinary team at the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), co-located with the Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital. Ideal candidate will have experience working in both Primary and Secondary care, ideally within the Emergency Department or specialist interest in Urgent and Emergency Care and have experience in the management of both illness and injury in Adults and Children
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment alongside Paramedics, Nurse Practitioners, ACPs, Nurses, and HCAs.
As a GP in the UTC, you will:
Provide same-day care for minor injuries and illnesses in both adults and children (from birth).
Work closely with Emergency Department colleagues to enhance clinical skills and patient care.
Deliver safe, timely, and effective treatment independently.
Refer patients to specialties for ongoing care and specialist opinion when necessary.
Support and lead the multidisciplinary team in clinical decision-making.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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To provide triage where required
To provide complete consultations with assessment, treatment and management of patients of all ages presenting with primary care problems at the UTC
To record full clinical notes using the UTC IT systems
To complete coding requirements on the clinical record in line with the Trust requirements
To complete all admin work relating to consultations
To work as part of the wider clinical team- supporting Nurse Practitioners, HCAs, and GP colleagues and training Doctors
To manage referrals of UTC patients on to acute specialties, A&E or community services where required
To support the redirection of patients to their registered GP where appropriate
To give education to patients on appropriate use of NHS services
To prescribe medicines in accordance with UTC formulary and dispense medicines from stock where available
To complete discharge letters for all patients seen in the UTC
This advert closes on Saturday 4 Oct 2025