• Advert number: 185426-0
• Posted Date: 11/12/08

National Recruitment Office
for General Practice Training

www.gprecruitment.org.uk

The National Recruitment Office for GP Training, Central Boulevard, Blythe Valley Business Park, Solihull, West Midlands B90 8AG.

Locations

The GP NRO co-ordinates recruitment to GP specialty training programmes at ALL deaneries in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. All deaneries are offering full 3 year GP training programmes (entry at ST1) to commence in August 2009. There are also a few 4 year NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship posts available at some English deaneries. Programme areas within each deanery can be viewed on the Deanery Profile pages at www.gprecruitment.org.uk along with further information about all available programmes, the geography and the main Trusts. The Deanery profile pages also have links to individual deanery web sites where there may be more local information.

Profile

General Practice is a unique specialty. It offers you the opportunity to broaden and deepen your experience of clinical challenges within a remit of treating everything from childhood to old age, treating individuals and their families within the context of primary care. General Practitioners are specialist physicians who are patient centred, team based and undertake the highest level of patient care. They are personal doctors, primarily responsible for the provision of comprehensive and continuing care and must take into account subjective elements of patient care including life expectations, cultural beliefs and family wishes. Challengers for General Practitioners lie in service delivery being subject to rapid change and influenced by local and national policy as increasingly, health care is delivered in primary care settings, not in hospitals. The range of options for working in primary care will continue to expand as the delivery of patient care develops to meet the needs of a changing society. If you have ever considered training in General Practice, the careers section on www.gprecruitment.org.uk has more information and links to further career resources.

Recruitment process and timetables for 2009

Recruitment to GP specialty training programmes uses a national staged competency based approach following standardised procedures and uses standardised assessment methods. Applicants submit one application and can indicate up to four deanery preferences in rank order. Applicants are long-listed against essential criteria outlined on the person specification (including recent achievement of foundation competency) and then all eligible applicants are invited to an initial assessment which forms our shortlisting process (we do not “score” CVs). Applicants are then matched in rank order to their highest available preferred deanery and compete for a training programme in that deanery at Selection Centre (interview).

Detailed information about our recruitment and assessment processes including information on competition ratios for 2008 are available in the Recruitment section of www.gprecruitment.org.uk

Applications can be submitted via our on-line application system from 5th January 2009 until 18th January 2009.

The initial GP assessment is 21st February 2009.

Selection Centres are being held from 23rd March 2009 until 3rd April 2009.

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship interviews are w/c 16th March 2009.

More information

A full applicants guide to GP specialty recruitment in 2009 is available for download on www.gprecruitment.org.uk together with full details on how to apply and how to complete the on-line form. Applicants are advised to read all information available to them before submitting an application.

The GP NRO would like to take this opportunity to wish all GP applicants every success with their 2009 specialty
training applications.

www.gprecruitment.org.uk