Overview
Are you a GP looking to diversify your clinical work and join our community Hospital Rehabilitation and Frailty team in Witney Community Hospital?
Interviews will be held from 29th September 2025
In recent years we have developed a team of GPs that provide medical cover to our community hospital wards across Oxfordshire. Our GPs are thriving, thoroughly enjoying their role in these settings and working as part of a highly effective multi-disciplinary team. We are now looking to recruit additional GPs to our team of medics as the service continues to develop.
This is a great opportunity for any GP with the following benefits:
• Positions are available in Witney Community hospital working 2 days on Mondays and Wednesday (9-17:30).
• Currently no out-of-hours commitment although this may be needed in the future as the service develops – subject to agreement between the doctor and their line manager
• Competitive salary plus NHS pension and employment benefits. Continued Professional Development is paid in addition to your direct clinical working hours.
• Low amount of paperwork and administrative duties
• Opportunities for teaching and mentoring clinical staff, for personal development and for working across our other clinical services if desired
• Opportunities to undertake Quality Improvement, research and innovation projects
If you would like to know more or simply wish to have a preliminary chat, please contact Dr Rachel Rowe via email at Rachel.Rowe@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
The role of the GP for their designated Community Hospital site will include:
1. Proactive assessment of new admissions to the ward including ‘medical clerking’ within the clinical IT system, medication review and prescribing and escalation planning.
2. Performing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment alongside the MDT to optimise patient health and working with the patient, their family and the MDT to create advanced care plans.
3. Responding to medical concerns as they arise including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and onward referral when appropriate.
4. Planned formal weekly review of all patients on a ward round and involvement in weekly MDT meetings.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as good by the CQC. Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We have community hospital wards based in Abingdon, Witney, Bicester, Oxford, Wallingford and Didcot.
The patients you would be caring for are receiving ‘step down’ nursing care and rehabilitation following an admission in secondary care or ‘step up’ care from the community. Occasionally some patients require palliative care. Work will be a combination of ward-based work, ward MDTs and phone/remote support.
Training for successful GP applicants will be provided as needed on an individual basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Attendance at MDT meetings and ‘board reviews’ leading on patient recovery and timely discharge.
2. Work with and provide senior guidance to trainee doctors, and trainee and qualified advanced clinical practitioners.
3. Working collaboratively with colleagues outside the hospital setting who work in our Intensive Community care and First Contact Care Pathways.
4. Undertaking clinically related administrative duties such as reviewing investigation results and writing discharge letters.
5. Offering clinical support, mentoring & teaching to other clinical staff and students on the ward.
6. Participating in the organisation and delivery of clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activities that may be required from time to time.
7. Read bulletins and action emails sent to their Oxford Health account.
8. Undertaking appropriate CPD as agreed by the annual appraisal process.
9. To contribute to the development of the service to influence change and continued improvement.
10. When required, provide remote senior medical advice and support to clinical staff at any one of the community hospital sites.
11. For a detailed list of the roles and responsibilities for this post, please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Registration
* Essential criteria: Full GMC registration with licence to practice Up to date with appraisal and revalidation requirements.
Experience
* Essential criteria: Active NHS clinical experience in:- General Practice with demonstrable experience in working with urgent care and older people
Desirable criteria
* Subspecialty experience of working at the Interface between general medicine and primary care;
* Experience of working with virtual ward rounds.
* General (or Community) & Acute Geriatric Medicine; OR General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Urgent care
Personality
* Essential criteria: Ability to work in a high functioning MDT with respect for the roles and experience of other team members
Desirable criteria
* Able to tolerate a degree of clinical risk
Qualifications
* Essential criteria: Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)
Desirable criteria
* Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medicine • Postgraduate teaching qualification • Relevant post-graduate diplomas e.g. Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Skills
* Desirable criteria: Knowledge of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and its application
* Essential criteria: Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively
* Commitment to active clinical governance
* Ability to promote effective team working
* Capacity to prioritise workload
* Active participation in clinical audit
* Commitment to interagency partnership working
Desirable criteria
* Relevant experience of administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
* Inter-agency partnership working and development
Leadership Skills
* Essential criteria: Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of national and local agendas in respect of primary care commissioning, frailty pathways, and urgent care agendas.
Essential criteria
* Experience in supervising medical trainees
* Application of research evidence to clinical practice
Desirable criteria
* Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
* Experience of mentoring or teaching non-medical clinical colleagues
* High quality research as evidenced by publications and citations.
Documents to Download
GP job description (PDF, 336.4KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Rachel Rowe
Title: Medical Lead
Email: Rachel.Rowe@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
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