BrisDoc Healthcare Services is recruiting an Overnight SevernSide GP to work within its SevernSide Integrated Urgent Care service in Bristol.
The role involves managing a broad range of urgent clinical presentations across different age groups, providing telephone, video and face-to-face consultations, prescribing appropriately and supporting patients with urgent and end-of-life care needs.
The post is available on a permanent basis, with both full-time and part-time working patterns available.
Job Details
- Job title: Overnight SevernSide GP
- Employer: BrisDoc Healthcare Services
- Location: Osprey, Bristol, BS14 0BB
- Salary: £85,000 – £142,685 per year pro rata
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time or Part-time
- Date posted: 25 September 2026
- Closing date: 7 October 2026
- Reference: Overnight SevernSide GP
About the Role
As an Overnight SevernSide GP, you will provide urgent primary care to patients through a range of services, including telephone and video consultations, face-to-face appointments and mobile home visits.
You will assess patients, establish appropriate diagnoses and management plans, prescribe where appropriate and identify situations requiring hospital admission or emergency intervention.
The service operates 24 hours a day and combines NHS 111, GP out-of-hours services and other urgent care provision across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
- Assessing and managing a wide range of physical and mental health presentations across different age groups.
- Providing urgent clinical consultations by telephone, video and face-to-face appointments.
- Taking referrals from healthcare professionals within the BNSSG area for appropriate adult medical admissions.
- Working constructively with referring healthcare professionals and discussing alternative management options where appropriate.
- Identifying and accessing other urgent care services available within the BNSSG system.
- Supporting community-based management wherever appropriate.
- Recognising serious illness and emergency situations requiring hospital admission or ambulance response.
- Prescribing appropriately within the urgent primary care setting, including initiating or changing end-of-life medications.
- Maintaining clear and comprehensive clinical documentation.
- Seeking advice from the senior GP or Clinical Coordinator when required.
- Supporting new clinicians during their first shift within the SevernSide service.
- Using relevant clinical and IT systems, including CLEO, PACS and EMIS.
- Using clinical decision-making resources such as the Clinical Toolkit, BrisDoc web resources and Remedy.
- Reporting concerns and incidents to support learning and service improvement.
- Supporting BrisDoc’s environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
Applicants must have:
- Full GMC registration and inclusion on the GP Register.
- Inclusion on the NHS England Performer’s List.
- MRCGP qualification.
- Experience and an interest in working across urgent primary care settings.
- Current experience in general practice, community medicine or an Integrated Urgent Care service.
- Recent primary care experience involving effective multidisciplinary team working.
Desirable Experience
The following would be advantageous:
- Teaching experience or involvement in GP training.
- Experience teaching medical students.
- Experience in GP training or clinical supervision.
- Familiarity with the BNSSG healthcare system.
- Acute or general medical experience.
- Knowledge of EMIS.
- Current or recent experience in urgent and unscheduled community care.
- Experience with referral management and primary care/hospital interface decisions.
About BrisDoc Healthcare Services
BrisDoc is an employee-owned social enterprise that has provided NHS healthcare services for more than 20 years.
The organisation serves more than one million patients across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Its services include Severnside Integrated Urgent Care, in-hours primary care and dedicated homeless health services.
As an employee-owned organisation, BrisDoc describes its staff as co-owners who can contribute to decisions and help shape the organisation’s future.
Working Environment and Benefits
BrisDoc offers a range of urgent care working environments, including:
- Face-to-face appointments at treatment centres.
- Mobile home visiting.
- Telephone triage.
- Video consultations.
- Opportunities to support and mentor new clinicians.
- Full-time and part-time working options.
The organisation is also committed to flexible working, sustainability and reducing health inequalities.
Visa and Right to Work
The advert states that applicants must have current UK professional registration.
The vacancy does not explicitly confirm Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, so applicants who require sponsorship should verify sponsorship eligibility directly with BrisDoc before applying.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure and Barring Service check will therefore be required.
Application and Selection Process
Applications should be submitted through the NHS Jobs application system.
Closing date: 7 October 2026
For questions about the vacancy, applicants can contact the BrisDoc People Team Advisor, Angharad Ricketts, using the contact details provided in the original NHS Jobs advert.
Employer
BrisDoc Healthcare Services
Osprey
Bristol
BS14 0BB
United Kingdom
Employer website: https://brisdoc.co.uk/