Rural Acute GP – Barra and Vatersay

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Rural Acute GP – BARRA AND VATERSAY

GP DOCTOR GRADE

£79,861 to £119,198 plus 40% enhancement

Plus Distant Island Allowance £1,461 per annum

41 days Annual Leave per annum

Fixed Term Post for 12 months

The Isles of Barra and Vatersay offer a warm welcome and are teeming with life, activity and culture.

It is in this unique, safe and idyllic location that a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a GP to join our established 2C medical practice.

We are ready and excited to welcome a GP with a sense of adventure and a passion for remote and rural medicine to escape the rat race and embrace a healthier work-life balance with NHS Western Isles.

The post will be based in Barra Medical Practice in beautiful Castlebay. The post holder will support provision of primary care, urgent and unscheduled care, and community hospital medical cover. St Brendan's Hospital is a 3-bedded community hospital where the wider team prides itself in providing gold-standard care for patients.

We are looking for self-reliant and highly motivated GP to join our multi-disciplinary practice team. The post holder will be supported through in reach from the wider multi-disciplinary team which includes a First Contact Physio, Primary Care Pharmacist, CTAC, Community Nursing/Urgent Care, vaccination programme, Macmillan nurses, Scottish Ambulance Service and mental health colleagues. Peer support will also be provided from medical colleagues in Stornoway and from mainland colleagues, including emergency retrieval teams.

The role covering a wide remit will appeal to an experienced GP, but also those earlier in their careers looking for the challenge of widening their clinical skills and providing holistic care in a remote but supported environment. The role presents an excellent opportunity for the development of skills and confidence, with the remote-island location providing an unrivalled extra sense of responsibility and reward.

The ability, drive and commitment to work as part of a team, sometimes at a distance, and to contribute to the local development of primary care and acute services is important. Developments are taking place within the nursing structure to provide additional services on island, 24/7 urgent care, hospital at home and a developing Advanced Clinical Practitioner service and you will be expected to support clinical colleagues, including nursing, mental health and Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues accordingly.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

For further information and an informal chat please contact Dr Clare Carolann, Associate Medical Director. Or Michelle Taylor Family Health Services Manager michelle.taylor44@nhs.scot.

The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG Scheme (Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme). The post is not eligible for relocation expenses.

All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk, along with a job description.

Tha beàrnan-obrach NHS Eilean Siar uile gu léir a' nochdadh air làrach-lìn NHS na h-Alba https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/, còmhla ri dealbh-obrach.

If you have any further queries, please contact Tel: 01851 762027.

CLOSING DATE: 06/10/2026

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