This role entails three sessions per week, seeing approximately 860 boarding pupils. Clinics run during term time only, for about 34 weeks in the year, which may vary slightly by term dates.
The boarding pupils are registered with a local GP practice to ensure they receive high‑quality NHS care. The School Doctor will provide NHS care as well as specialist input in line with MMG’s standards and expectations, and will commit additional time for preparation, training, and engagement with the school medical centre team and the MMG team during holiday periods, as outlined in the employment contract.
Responsibilities
* Work closely with the expert medical, safeguarding, pastoral and academic teams present at the school.
* Provide acute and chronic general medical care for the boarding school population.
* Provide acute general medical care for staff registered to the connected GP practice.
* Actively engage with health promotion and preventative care throughout the school.
* Guide the school on matters relating to health and well‑being.
* Communicate regularly with parents and external professionals.
* Provide clinical leadership to the staff involved with health and well‑being at the school.
* Perform a lead role in clinical governance at the school.
* Take an active role in service improvement for the care of pupils and in the delivery of health and wellbeing at the school.
* Liaise regularly with the School Medicine team at MMG to share expertise and lessons learned to improve the service.
The School Doctor will report to and be supported clinically by MMG’s Head of School Medicine and operationally by the MMG team.
We are looking for a motivated General Practitioner with a particular interest in child and adolescent medicine to provide general medical care for boarding students at Oundle School, a prestigious co‑educational boarding school in Northamptonshire. The ideal candidate will be excited to integrate into life at Oundle and to contribute to the school’s expertise in health and well‑being, while developing significant expertise in School Medicine.
Essential Qualifications
* Primary medical degree – MBBS/MBChB or equivalent
* MRCGP
Desirable Qualifications
* PHICS/Sports medicine experience
* Mental health training
* Further paediatric qualifications, e.g. MSc in child and adolescent mental health
* Dip IBLM/BSLM
* Medical education experience
* FRCGP
Salary and Working Hours
Salary: £10,000 per session per year, for a total of £30,000. Part‑time – three sessions per week on separate days, ideally spaced to cover the week well. Term‑time work only, but paid for the full year.
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