Job Description

Job summary:
If youre an enthusiastic GP looking for a rewarding new role in a progressive, friendly practice, we’d love you to join us at Hilary Cottage Surgery in Fairford, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Hilary Cottage Surgery is a thriving, semi-rural training and dispensing practice situated in the Cotswolds, offering primary care to around 7500 patients.

We are seeking a salaried GP who values patient-centred care, teamwork, and the opportunity to contribute to excellent clinical care.

We have three GP Partners and four Salaried GPs working collaboratively within a close-knit, supportive, clinical team, and we are now recruiting as one of our Salaried GPs is retiring in September 2026.

This is a rare opportunity to take on a GP role at Hilary Cottage. Situated in a beautiful, semi-rural location, this could be your rewarding next step whatever the stage you are at in your GP career.

Main duties of the job:
We can offer the right candidate(s) up to 8 clinical sessions, and we are interested in meeting you if you see yourself working an number of sessions from 3 up to 8 per week.

Please contact the team for an informal chat or send us your CV and a covering letter. We look forward to hearing from you

About us:
Hilary Cottage Surgery runs a Total Triage service with Accurx, and we use SystmOne clinical system. We are a training practice with 7 GPs, 2 GP trainers, and 1-2 trainees.

We are part of the South Cotswolds PCN and are based in Fairford. There are three GP Partners and four Salaried GPs combining to create a cohesive, encouraging and friendly team.

Most importantly, Hilary Cottage Surgery is a lovely place to work, with a great team of GPs, nurses, pharmacist, paramedic/ANPs, phlebotomists, managers, receptionists, pharmacy technicians, HCAs, administrators and dispensers. There’s about 40 of us, most of whom work part time, and we have carefully fostered and grown a working environment that cares for the team and is a fun place to work.

Situated in a town within a wider rural setting, this opportunity could be your rewarding next step whatever the stage you are at in your GP career.

Job description:
This is a General Practitioner role in a thriving semi-rural practice in Fairford, Gloucestershire. Ideally suited for a pleasant, mostly rural commute from Stroud, Cheltenham, Swindon, Malmesbury, Witney and other surrounding areas.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential: Qualified and registered GMC GP.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (Opens in a new tab).

Employer name
Hilary Cottage Surgery

Location:
Keble Lawns
Fairford
Gloucestershire
GL7 4BQ
United Kingdom

Employer’s website: https://www.fairfordsurgery.co.uk