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Vacancies
Salaried GP (6 Sessions)
- Start date: September 2026 (flexible)
Shirley Health Partnership is seeking a 6 session Salaried GP to join our happy, supportive and forward thinking team from September 2026, with flexibility around the start date.
The Practice
Shirley Health Partnership is an urban GP practice based in the western suburbs of Southampton, serving a diverse population of approximately 14,000 patients, including families, older adults and students. We are committed to high quality, holistic patient care, driven by positive patient outcomes and continuity wherever possible.
We moved into a new, purpose built premises in May 2024, located just behind Shirley High Street. The practice benefits from modern consulting rooms, excellent clinical space and a collaborative open plan hot desk area. Southampton city centre less than a mile away but the practice is also easily accessible for commuters, including from the New Forest, Romsey and surrounding villages near Winchester.
We have a wide population demographics but no nursing homes and only a small number of residential care homes in our catchment area.
The Team and Ways of Working
We pride ourselves on being a genuinely supportive, non hierarchical team. We meet every morning before clinics start and catch up again mid morning for coffee. Doors are always open and colleagues are readily available for advice and case discussion.
We currently have:
- 5 GP Partners and 5 Salaried GPs
- A highly skilled nursing team, including a daily duty nurse and nurse led chronic disease management with excellent QOF achievement
- A strong, experienced reception and administrative team
Our wider multidisciplinary team includes:
- Mental health nurses and peer recovery workers
- Health and wellbeing coaches and social prescribers
- First Contact Physiotherapists (FCPs)
- Practice pharmacist, medicines manager and a dedicated prescription team
- Community midwives
- Steps to Wellbeing
- Acute Visiting Service (AVS)
We are fully engaged with PCN services and are both a member and host practice, delivering AVS and other PCN services locally.
Systems and Innovation
We actively invest in systems that support safe, efficient working and GP wellbeing:
- EMIS Web
- Docman with strong admin filtering and support
- Ardens clinical templates
- Heidi AI scribe
- iGPR
- GP AI Triage (launching June 2026)
- A balanced mix of telephone, face to face and duty clinics
Flexible working patterns are actively supported.
Teaching, Training and Interests
We have a long standing and successful relationship with the Wessex Deanery and are proud to be:
- A training practice for GP registrars
- Hosts for medical students
- A research active practice
Many of our GPs have portfolio careers including roles as trainers, mentors, paediatric MDT leads, ICB leads, researchers and clinical directors. We are very keen to support career development both within and outside the practice.
The Vacancy
- Preferrably 6 sessions per week (5 to 7 sessions)
- Salaried GP position – open to partnership if that is of interest to the right successful candidate
- Flexible working and portfolio careers welcomed
If you’re looking for a friendly, functional and well organised practice with a strong emphasis on teamwork, patient care and work life balance, we would love to hear from you. Informal visits are very welcome.
- We are a UK visa licensed sponsor under the skilled worker immigration route.
Key Dates
- Closing date: 22nd May 2026
- Proposed start date: September 2026 (flexible)
Further Information
For an informal conversation or to arrange a visit, please contact:
- Adrian West, Practice Manager
- Dr Hana Burgess, GP Partner