Urgent Treatment Centre Salaried General Practitioner


Company:	Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£98,729 Per Annum
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Poole, BH15 2JB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	4 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

Join oursubstantive GP teamsupporting the transformation of urgent care acrossPoole and Bournemouth UTCs.

You’ll work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality assessment and treatment for patients presenting with urgent and minor illness and injury.

What we offer:

• Competitive NHS salary and benefits

• Substantive employment and career development

• Cross-site working acrossPoole and Bournemouth UTCs

• Supportive, modern multidisciplinary working

• Opportunity to contribute to the development of a24/7 Poole UTC

Join us and help shape the future of urgent care across Dorset.

The successful candidate will:

• Assess, investigate, diagnose, treat and safely manage patients presenting with urgent, undifferentiated illness and minor injury within the Urgent Treatment Centres.

• Deliver high-quality urgent primary care across both Poole and Bournemouth Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting service resilience and equitable patient access.

• Provide senior clinical decision-making, ensuring safe, effective and timely management of patients in accordance with national and local clinical guidance.

• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including Advanced Practitioners, Nursing staff and Allied Health Professionals, to deliver coordinated patient-centred care.

• Determine the most appropriate onward management for patients, including discharge with advice, referral to community or primary care services, or escalation to secondary care where clinically indicated.

• Support the avoidance of unnecessary Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions by managing appropriate patients within the Urgent Treatment Centre.

• Contribute to maintaining patient flow through timely assessment, treatment and discharge planning.

• Participate in clinical governance activities including audit, quality improvement, incident investigation and learning.

• Work flexibly across both Urgent Treatment Centre sites to meet service demands and support operational resilience.

AtUniversity Hospitals Dorset (UHD), we are transforming how urgent, emergency and planned care is delivered across our two main hospital sites.

As part of ourclinical services review,Royal Bournemouth Hospitalwill become the Trust’s dedicated emergency care site, including the relocation of the Poole Emergency Department.Poole Hospitalwill increasingly focus on elective and planned care, alongside the development of a24/7 Urgent Treatment Centre.

This is an exciting time to join UHD and be part of a major transformation of local healthcare services, with opportunities to help shape new models of care, develop your career and make a real difference to our patients and communities.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications

Candidates are advised to please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further details.

This advert closes on Monday 21 Sep 2026

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