*Please note these rotations may be subject to change*

Posts marked 'innovative' (*) are likely to be unbanded, regular daytime hours, but specifially designed for GP training posts

ITP –  Integrated training posts are rotations with a split working week with time spent in General Practice and a specialty. You will have a clinical supervisor in each of the two elements of the job. In an ITP, each working week will be made up of two days in General Practice, two days in the specialty and one day of educational activity. The working week will mirror that of General Practice with limits on the amount of antisocial work as per the 2016 trainee GP contract. 

Community Post – Community-focused specialty post where the majority of the working week is spent working with outpatients (i.e. patients who attend from, and return to home) or in a community setting separate from an acute trust. The working week may include a proportion of on call work.  

If you have any particular disability arrangements or reasonable adjustments which must be considered, please ensure this is discussed with the patch team(s) well in advance when browsing the available rotations.  Please contact GPRecruitment.SW@hee.nhs.uk who will put you in contact with the relevant team to discuss your needs in relation to the rotations available in this recruitment round.

If you have any questions about the rotations please contact GPRecruitment.SW@hee.nhs.uk. Please do not contact the patch teams directly as they do not receive a final list of new starters until all rotations have been allocated which will be the end of April 2023.

During the general practice component of your training you will be working in the community. As well as seeing patients in the surgery you will also visit patients in their own homes, in community hospitals and in nursing homes. You are also likely to attend meetings and teaching sessions in places different from your own surgery. Similarly hospital rotations may involve work at different sites within the trust. It is essential that you are able to get to these places. If you do not have a driving licence, please ensure that you have appropriate alternative transport arrangements in place.

You will be expected to be able to attend emergencies and provide domiciliary care which may include out of hours visits if you are based in a GP training practice or in some secondary care posts at any time during your training programme. If you are not a car driver, you are expected to provide a car and driver at your own expense in order to meet this requirement. Relying on public transport, bicycles and taxis is not normally acceptable.

Please be reminded that when you submitted your application you agreed to the following - 

I agree that I am able to provide emergency and domiciliary care at any time during my training programme. If, for any reason, my licence ceases to be valid or I no longer have access to a vehicle, I agree to provide a vehicle or vehicle and driver at my own expense so that I may continue to fulfill this requirement unless, if I am unable to drive for medical reasons, my employer is able to make other reasonable adjustments to the job or to this requirement.

HEFT - Please be aware that this programme includes Health Equity Focussed Training (HEFT) rotations. For more information on HEFT please see here

Please note that placements are subject to change and cannot be confirmed at this stage particularly practices

We are a largely rural area and our practices cover the whole of somerset so please do consider that you may be placed in a practice that will inevitably involve commuting - practice placements may change due to trainer availability etc - please do not expect to be able to swap practice placements                                                            

ITP posts will either be 1 week in practice/1 week in ITP or 2 days per week in each post in liaison with practice and post (2 doctors working back to back)  practice placements may change due to trainer availability etc - please do not expect to be able to swap practice allocations     

 

Number

Aug 2023 - July 2024 (ST1)

Aug 2024 - July 2025 (ST2)

Aug 2025 - July 2026 (ST3)

Rotation 1

Aug 23 - Medicine Taunton              

Aug 24 - A&E Front door Taunton / GP Cranleigh Gardens MC Bridgwater

GP - Blackdown Practice Hemyock tbc

Feb 24 - Paediatrics Taunton   

Feb 25 - GP Lyngford Park Taunton tbc

Rotation 2

Aug 23 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Aug 24 - Old Age Psychiatry Polden MC Bridgwater

GP - College Way Taunton tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton                 

Feb 25 – GP Cannington HC Bridgwater tbc

Rotation 3

Aug 23 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Aug 24 - A&E Front door Taunton / GP Cranleigh Gardens MC Bridgwater

GP - Crown MC Taunton tbc

Feb 24 - Paediatrics Taunton   

Feb 25 – GP North Curry HC North Curry tbc

Rotation 4

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton                     

Aug 24 - Old Age Psychiatry Polden MC Bridgwater

GP - Williton Surgery Williton tbc

Feb 24 - Paediatrics Taunton            

Feb 25 – GP Dunster Surgery Dunster tbc

Rotation 5

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton              

Aug 24 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton / GP Crewkerne HC Crewkerne

GP - Dunster/Porlock Surgery Dunster tbc

Feb 24 - Psychiatry Taunton             

Feb 25 – GP Taunton Vale MC Taunton tbc

Rotation 6

Aug 23 - Paediatrics Taunton   

Aug 24 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton / GP Crewkerne HC Crewkerne

GP - Tawstock MC Chard tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton                  

Feb 25 – GP Summervale MC Ilminster tbc

Rotation 7

Aug 23 - Paediatrics Taunton            

Aug 24 – GP Cannington HC Bridgwater tbc

GP - Essex House MC Chard tbc

Feb 24 - Psychiatry Taunton             

Feb 24 - A&E Front door Taunton / GP Cranleigh Gardens MC Bridgwater

Rotation 8

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton                  

Aug 24 – GP Glastonbury HC Glastonbury tbc

GP - Wells City Practice Wells tbc

Feb 24 - Psychiatry Taunton                

Feb 25 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton / GP Crewkerne HC Crewkerne

Rotation 9

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton                 

Aug 24 – GP St James MC Taunton tbc

GP - Park Medical Practice Shepton Mallet tbc

Feb 24 - Psychiatry Wells (3 months inpatient/3 months community)              

Feb 25 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton / GP Crewkerne HC Crewkerne

Rotation 10

Aug 23 - Psychiatry Taunton             

Aug 24 – GP Burnham on Sea MC Burnham on Sea tbc

GP - Park MP, Shepton Mallet tbc

Feb 24 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Feb 24 - A&E Front door Taunton / GP Cranleigh Gardens MC Bridgwater

Rotation 11

HEFT

Aug 23 - Psychiatry Taunton                

Aug 24 - Health Inequalities/Homelessness / Taunton Vale MC Taunton

GP - Taunton Road MC Bridgwater tbc

Feb 24 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Feb 25 – GP Burnham on Sea MC Burnham on Sea tbc

Rotation 12

Aug 23 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton                   

Aug 24 – GP Lyngford Park MC Taunton tbc

GP - East Quay MC Bridgwater tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton                     

Feb 25 - Old Age Psychiatry Polden MC Bridgwater

Rotation 13

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton                     

Aug 24 - Health Inequalities/Homelessness / GP Taunton Vale MC Taunton

GP - Poldon MC Bridgwater tbc

Feb 24 - Palliative Care St Margarets Hospice Taunton                   

Feb 25 – GP East Quay MC Bridgwater tbc

Rotation 14

Aug 23 - Medicine Taunton              

Aug 24 – GP East Quay MC Bridgwater tbc

GP - Cranleigh Gardens MC Bridgwater tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton                     

Feb 25 - Health Inequalities/Homelessness / GP Taunton Vale MC Taunton

Rotation 15

Aug 23 - A&E Taunton                             

Aug 24 – GP Dunster Surgery Dunster

GP - Taunton Vale MC Taunton tbc

Feb 24 - Medicine Taunton              

Feb 25 - Palliative Care Minehead / GP Dunster Surgery Dunster

Rotation 16

Aug 23 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Aug 24 - Palliative Care Minehead / GP Dunster Surgery Dunster

GP - St James MC Taunton tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton                             

Feb 25 – GP St James MC Taunton tbc

Rotation 17

Aug 23 - Paediatrics Taunton   

Aug 24 - Palliative Care Minehead / GP Dunster Sgy Dunster

GP - North Curry HC North Curry tbc

Feb 24 - Obs & Gynae Taunton  

Feb 25 – GP Vine Sgy, Street tbc

Rotation 18

Aug 23 - Psychiatry Taunton             

Aug 24 – GP Bruton MC Bruton tbc

GP - Lyngford Park Surgery Taunton tbc

Feb 24 - A&E Taunton              

Feb 25 - Palliative Care Minehead / GP Dunster Surgery Dunster

Rotation 19

Aug 23 - Paediatrics Taunton                         

Aug 24 - Acute Frailty Hospital & Home / GP Wells HC Wells

GP - Langport Surgery Langport tbc

Feb 24 - A&E (innovative) Taunton

Feb 25 – GP Queen Camel MC Queen Camel tbc