Recruitment to GP Specialty Training
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GP Specialty Training:
GP Specialty Training enables trainees to develop a range of skills in a broad base of specialties over the duration of three or four years. Some of these specialties include Psychiatry, Geriatric Medicine, Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Otolaryngology, and many more.
The London Deanery covers a large geographical area that is ethnically, culturally, and socio-economically diverse. There are 28 GP Specialty Training Schemes within the London Deanery, each of which is unique and representative of the area they serve. Our GP Specialty Training Programmes are constantly reviewed with the aim of equipping doctors with the skills required for becoming a GP in today’s modern society.
We offer 3-year and 4-year GP Specialty Training Programmes, with a minimum time of 18 months spent in a primary care setting.
Levels Recruiting to:
ST1
Application Process:
The recruitment and selection of GP Specialty Training within the United Kingdom is co-ordinated on a national basis. All trainees who successfully complete the original GP Specialty Training Programme that they are offered, including MRCGP, will be awarded with a CCT. There is a nationally agreed person specification which can be found on the GP National Recruitment Website: http://www.gprecruitment.org.uk/downloads/index.htm
Application forms for GP Specialty Training are available online at: www.gprecruitment.org.uk/apply.html.
Key Dates and Information:
Applications open: Monday 12 November 2012 at 09:00 (GMT)
Applications close: 7 December 2012 at 12:00 (GMT). Late applications will not be accepted.
Stage 2 Assessment: From Saturday 5 January up to and including Saturday 12 January 2013. Places can be booked, on invitation, from 10 December 2012 once application has been accepted by long-listing deanery. We may be able to arrange an overseas test centre for those working outside the UK during these dates.
Stage 3 Selection Assessment Centre (SAC): 6/7/8 + 11/12/13/14 February 2012
SAC Venue: Etc Venues, Dexter House, No.2 Royal Mint Court, Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4QN
Additional Information:
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Indicative Number of posts avaiable |
416 |
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Academic Cinical Fellowship (ACFs) |
13 |
GP Specialty Training Programmes commence: 1 August 2012
The normal duration for GP Specialty Training Programmes is 3 years; however the Royal Free scheme and the ACFs are 4 years in duration. The length of GP Specialty Training is subject to change dependent on individual trainee circumstances that may arise during training.
Posts within GP Specialty Training Programmes rotate at specific intervals, and this is dependant on the scheme and specialty of that post. Our ST1 and ST2 posts vary in length from 3, 4, 6 or 8 months
Competition Ratios:
Nationally, on average, there were two applications for General Practice to every vacancy for the August 2010 round of recruitment. However, for London this figure rose to nearly 3 applications to every post:
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Number of posts for August 2012: |
390 |
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Number of applications: |
1352 |
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Applications per post: |
3.46 |
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Number of applicants shortlisted: |
714 |
Other Information:
Foundation Competencies: All applicants are expected to show that they have attained the foundation competencies. Applicants are asked to attach this to your online application at the time of submission. In exceptional circumstances, where this is not possible, applicants will be expected to submit Foundation Competence evidence before noon (12:00hrs GMT) on 7 December 2012. For further information regarding Foundation Competence evidence, please visit the GP National Recruitment Website: http://www.gprecruitment.org.uk/applicantsguide.html.
References: You will be required to bring three fully completed clinical references when attending the SAC. You may wish to start preparing for this in advance by downloading the structured reference form and distributing it to your nominated referees in good time to avoid any delays.
Submitted applications: Please direct any queries relating to your submitted application form through the email facility on the Konetic online application system. All communications regarding submitted applications will be undertaken via this mechanism, therefore, please ensure that you check your emails at regular intervals.
Deferrals: In line with the Gold Guide 2010, deferrals will only be permitted on the grounds of maternity and sickness: http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/specialty_training/specialty_training_2012/gold_guide.aspx
Pay Scales:
All trainees should be paid monthly at the rates set out in the national terms and conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health medicine and the community health service (England and Wales), as well as the Schedules to direction to Strategic Health Authorities Concerning GP Registrars. The pay scales are reviewed annually. Less than full-time (LTFT) posts will be paid pro-rata.
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Enquiries:
In order to keep abreast of any developments that may occur during the recruitment episode, please ensure that you frequent the General Practice section of the London Deanery website and the website of the National Recruitment Office. Applicants can now also follow National Recruitment on Twitter - http://twitter.com/gprecruitment and we expect to “tweet” at least once a week during the recruitment period. Please note that queries regarding submitted applications will only be accepted once they have been sent via the email facility on the Konetic online application system. Please direct all other queries to: recruitmentenquiries@londondeanery.ac.uk.
Schemes:
North West London:
Central Middlesex Ealing Hillingdon Northwick Park Riverside Scheme St Mary's West Middlesex
North Central London:
Barnet Enfield Royal Free UCLH Whittington Imperial
North East London:
Hackney Ilford Newham Romford Tower Hamlets Whipps Cross
South East London:
Bromley Greenwich Guy's and St Thomas' Kings Lewisham Sidcup
South West:
Croydon Kingston & Roehampton St Georges St Helier
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Central Middlesex |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP Posts are 6 months in length with the exception of Trauma and Orthopaedics and Otolaryngology which are 3 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Ealing |
Training schemes are 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Hillingdon |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Northwick Park
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Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length with the exception of General Surgery and Otolaryngology which are 3 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Riverside Scheme
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Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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St Mary’s
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Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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West Middlesex
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Training schemes are either 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP or 4 year schemes consisting of 24 months in hospital specialties and 24 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Barnet |
Training schemes are 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length with the exception of Emergency Medicine and Trauma and Orthopaedics which are 3 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Enfield |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. Please note that services at Chase Farm Hospital are being reconfigured and as such, we expect a change in location at some Paediatrics, O & G and A & E posts. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Royal Free |
Training schemes are 4 year schemes consisting of 24 months in hospital specialties and 24 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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UCLH |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Whittington |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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These hospital posts have been designed with the specific focus on the educational needs of general practice trainees, to enable the transfer of knowledge and skills that are relevant to the field of general practice.
Over the 3 years trainees will rotate through three six month placements of hospital specialities from the list below. However please note that not all posts below will be available and additional specialities maybe added.
Medicine: Medicine for the elderly at Charing Cross Hospital comprises two wards. This is part of the medicine clinical programme group (CPG) at our large, busy acute hospital trust in west London. For example trainees will participate in the management of long term conditions in both acute and primary and community settings.
Psychiatry: GP trainees placed on this attachment will encounter a variety of mental health problems and range of interventions used to manage these needs for example working with psychiatric emergencies, management of elderly and paediatric mental health, and exposure to different psychological therapies. Training will usually take place at a site wihin the West London Mental Health Trust.
Paediatrics: St Mary’s Hospital and incorporates an ambulatory unit which sees children who are referred by their GP, midwife or health visitor but which is also a walk in service providing open access to the many families in the local community. The GP trainees have the opportunity to see mothers and babies with the support of a midwife, who works part of the week on the delivery suite and postnatal wards, and who often knows the families from the delivery. The ambulatory unit midwife then helps begin liaison with midwives in the community.
Obstetrics and gynaecology: Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital (QCCH) is a postgraduate teaching hospital which is part of our Trust. For example running family planning and sexual health clinics, attending appropriate gynaecological outpatient clinics, on call duties for emergencies.
Primary care placement
Trainees will spend an additional six month placement in alternative primary care and community settings such as:
• GP led urgent care centres
• Sexual health clinics
• Multi-disciplinary community mental health teams
• Paediatric ambulatory care unit
Please note the above community settings may change.
Primary care rotation
For their final year (ST3) trainees will be placed within a GP training practice and will focus on developing consultation skills, managing a range of primary care medical problems and completing the Clinical Skills Assessment and Work Based Programme component of the nMRCGP.
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Hackney |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Ilford |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Newham |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Romford |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Tower Hamlets |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of either 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP, or 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. Posts are either 4 month or 6 month in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Whipps Cross |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of either 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP, or 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. Posts are either 4 month or 6 month in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Bromley |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP. All posts are 4 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Greenwich |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP or 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 4 months in length with the exception of ITP’s which are 8 months in length (ITP Drugs and Alcohol Management is 6 months in length). Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Guy’s & St Thomas’ |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Kings |
Training schemes are either 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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The South London & Maudslay NHS Foundation Trust
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Lewisham |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP. All posts are 4 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Sidcup |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP. All posts are 4 months in length with the exception of ITP Community Paediatrics which is 8 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Croydon |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Kingston & Roehampton |
Training schemes are 3 years in length and consist of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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South West London & St. George’s Mental Health Trust
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St Georges |
Training schemes are either 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
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St Helier
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Training schemes are either 3 years in length consisting of 18 months in hospital specialties and 18 months in GP or 16 months in hospital specialties and 20 months in GP. All posts are 6 months in length with the exception of General Internal Medicine, O&G and Renal which are 4 months in length. Typical posts in this scheme are listed below (please note that not all of these posts will be available for rotations beginning in August 2012).
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Wandsworth Teaching PCT |
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