GP in Urgent Treatment Centre | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

GP in Urgent Treatment Centre | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

This is for the appointment of a new GP in our Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). To confirm this vacancy is for candidates who are registered as a GP on the GMC register.

Our Urgent Treatment Centre is co-located within the Emergency Departments (ED) at both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals.

Candidates must be willing to work closely with our ED colleagues, to provide care for those with more minor presentations, as well as using appropriate urgent investigations (blood tests, imaging, ECG's), to further assess patients that may or may not require secondary care referral and to instigate initial management for these patients, when required.

It is desirable that the post holder has experience working autonomously, as a General Practitioner and is competent in interpreting chest radiographs and ECG’s.

The Trust is able to support development of these skills and others, by offering a study budget and study leave.

Please see the job description (JD) for details of the shifts we currently have available within the UTC's.

We kindly ask that you only apply if you are able to commit to the shifts specified.

Thank you for your understanding.

The UTC offers appointments 24/7.

Patients with minor injuries and urgent illnesses are assessed and treated by our team of GP’s, nurses and physiotherapists. 30-50% of all emergency department attendances are re-directed to our UTC team.

Our UTC clinics offer around 2000 appointments, between our sites, per week.

The MTW UTC GP is an exciting and evolving "hybrid role".

Our GP's must combine traditional community GP skills, with access to immediate secondary care-based investigations; allowing us to fully complete most episodes of care.

In doing so, we aim to maximise patient safety, satisfaction and efficiency of patient flow.

Please note that the job plan provided is illustrative and may be subject to variation following mutual agreement between the post-holder and the Clinical Director after appointment.

The post-holder will join a team of eleven GP in managing patients.

The job plan illustrated within the Job description is what vacant shifts are available for your choosing, you as the candidate are able to choose which shifts you wish to apply for, on applying for this post please note which shifts you are able to commit to.

Currently no other hours/days will be considered.

Maidstone Hospital is a modern 410-bed facility located on the western edge of Maidstone, just two miles from Junction 5 of the M20.

It serves a catchment population of approximately 220,000 and sees around 50,000 A&E attendances annually.

The hospital offers comprehensive diagnostic services, including multi-slice CT and MRI.

Specialist cancer services are a major focus.

While upper GI cancer care for Kent and Medway is commissioned from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and the regional hepatobiliary cancer service is delivered at King’s College Hospital, Maidstone plays a key role in local cancer care delivery.

Advanced procedures, such as radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases, are performed on-site for a broad Kent-wide population.

The hospital also hosts the Kent Cancer Centre—the fourth largest in the UK—serving patients from across the county.

Strong road links support excellent regional access.

Tunbridge Wells Hospital, located in Pembury beside the A21, opened in January 2011 following a £230 million, three-year build.

It was the first NHS hospital in the UK to feature all single, en-suite rooms across its main wards—enhancing patient privacy, sleep quality, and infection control.

Most rooms benefit from natural light and forest views, supporting a more therapeutic recovery environment.

• To provide a high standard of care to patients for whom you have clinical responsibility.

This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team.

• To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments, with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
• To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients.
• To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities.

To attend and participate in clinical governance work and meetings as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning.

• To participate actively in the Directorate Audit programme, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
• To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff.

You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from HEE and HEKSS.

• To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice”, including “The Duties of a Doctor”.
• To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practice and learn from mistakes.
• To share in the ‘on-call’ rota, and to provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
• To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
• To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relations with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
• To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy.

You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation.

The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.

• To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
• You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work.

You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.

• Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
• Participation on the management and future development of the Emergency Medicine service.
• This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Aug 2026
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