Maternity Locum GP

We are a friendly, motivated and well organised practice who very much work as part of a team, supporting each other to deliver high quality patient centred care. We are looking for a locum GP to join the team of 5 Partners, 7 salaried GPs and 9 nurse practitioners to cover maternity leave for 6 months from November 2023 until May 2024. Sessional commitment would ideally be up to 8 sessions, but is negotiable. We are offering a fixed term salaried contract.


We have a large supportive MDT including pharmacy, first contact physios, occupational therapists, dementia and frailty nurses, mental health & wellbeing practitioners, women’s health nurses and a well-integrated, highly functioning district nursing team. The unscheduled care is dealt with by our Duty team of which there is a Duty Doctor allocated to each session to separate scheduled and unscheduled work.
We are a training practice and have a weekly Journal Club for and have an informal Friday breakfast club. Lunchtime walks or runs are possible from the practice door into the local woods or by the river. We are located in Elgin on the beautiful Moray Coast with beaches, mountains and great golf courses all on your doorstep. We deliver care to our 22,500 patients in a semi-rural catchment. We benefit from close proximity to the local DGH and have a rural branch surgery in Rothes. There are good local transport links including Inverness airport which is only 31 miles away. 

For more information, on either an informal or formal basis, please contact Dr Kerry Cattanach Kerry.cattanach@nhs.scot, Dr Robert Lockhart Robert.lockhart@nhs.scot, or Mrs Eileen Rae, Practice Manager, Eileen.rae@nhs.scot, we would love to hear from you. Closing date for application is the 22nd of September 2023.