Salaried GP
Pendre Surgery
What makes us the Practice for you?
- Very supportive partners who interact well together
- Motivated, highly trained reception staff
- Friendly, sociable team
- Skilled nursing team
- Cohesive management team
- Training practice
- Reputation for a high standard of clinical care
- Good income
- Purpose built premises
- Pleasant semi-rural location within easy access to busy towns and cities/places of historical interest and areas of great natural beauty
- Good schools in the area
We wish to appoint a Salaried GP to work ideally 5 sessions and to share in all clinical and operational aspects of the practice.
Proposed rota:
Ideally 5 sessions per week, days to be decided.
We run a shared list but allocate patient numbers based on the number of sessions worked by each GP to ensure paper work, results, etc. are shared out equitably. All doctors present each day meet together at the end of morning surgery to share experiences, ask for advice and offer each other support.
Our total list size is circa 10,600.
Practice Area
Mold is known for its street market held each Wednesday and Saturday and also for its farmer’s market held every Tuesday. There are several restaurants and cafes and many interesting independently owned shops. Theatre Clwyd has a cinema and playhouse which has a fine repertoire and reputation. Art exhibitions also take place there. There are many pretty villages around the area. Loggerheads Country Park and Moel Fammau are a short distance away and provide beautiful areas for walking and hiking. St Mary’s Church in the centre of Mold is a lovely example of 15th century architecture. There are several large country estates nearby some of which hold open air events such as opera concerts. Mold is situated close to the A55 which provides easy access to the City of Chester or alternatively heading west to the mountain range of Snowdonia and the beautiful Welsh coastline. There is an excellent range of state and private schools in the area including a Welsh first language school. Liverpool and Manchester Airports are within a forty minute drive.
Practice team
There are four partners plus one GP retainer and two Salaried GPs. We have two practice nurses, two health care assistants a pharmacist and a pharmacy technician. Our reception team consists of a reception manager, prescribing officer, training officer and eight receptionists, all of whom are highly trained, very competent and provide an exceptional service to the patients. Added to this we have a medical secretary, three administration officers, two deputy managers and a practice manager. Together we make a very friendly, supportive and industrious team.
We work closely with a team of district nurses, palliative care nurses, health visitors, occupational therapists, midwives and a CPN. We have a close working relationship with Mold Community Hospital which is in close proximity to the practice. We have an excellent working relationship with members of the Medicines Management and Prescribing Team from the Local Health Board who work regularly in the practice assisting with audits for QAIF and enhanced services.
We encourage training and development for the team and have monthly protected practice time afternoons where we bring in various consultants to talk on areas pertinent to primary care. We also use the time to provide in-house training and for clinical meetings. We are a training practice for GPSTs, GP FY1, pre-reg pharmacists and undertake year 4 medical student training. We have mentored 4 local pharmacists to become prescribers and mentored a nurse to become a practice nurse.
Premises
The building, which is owned by the partners was purposed built in 1965 but has been extended and refurbished in 1980 and 2000. It has a large staff and patient car park and is in close walking distance of the Community Hospital and the town centre. The Local Health Board is also situated within walking distance.
Appointments and access
Consultations are by telephone and face-to-face appointment and are a mixture of pre-bookable, on the day routine and urgent on the day. We triage all calls via e-Consult.
Out of hours work is covered by the long established Out of Hours Service.
The incoming doctor will not be expected to do any out of hours work but may contribute if desired.
Practice management
We have an excellent and experienced, able and willing practice manager, two deputy managers and a reception manager. The practice is fully computerised with EMIS with lab links, letter scanning, with a progressive policy for IT. Doctors like to follow different management interests including QAIF and enhanced services, clinical governance, significant events, prescribing, audit, access, GP rotas, finance, innovating information technology, premises and staff.
Practice meetings are held monthly in-house, with a constructive agenda and minutes. Significant events and clinical items are discussed at the monthly clinical meetings.
Incoming doctors are encouraged to develop their own role within the team.
Partnership issues
The partners get on very well. We endeavour to actively manage and reduce the causes of pressure. There is an ethos of collaboration, informed by researched knowledge, and all decisions are reached by consensus. All duties have always been shared equally and fairly.
The hospital and postgraduate centre
Our nearest district general hospital is situated in Wrexham. We have a good relationship with consultant colleagues. There is an active postgraduate centre and a well established Local Medical Committee.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is the largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health and acute hospital services for a population of around 676,000 people across the six counties of North Wales (Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham) as well as some parts of mid Wales, Cheshire and Shropshire.
They are responsible for the operation of three district general hospitals (Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan and Wrexham Maelor Hospital) as well as 22 other acute and community hospitals, and a network of over 90 health centres, clinics, community health team bases and mental health units. They coordinate the work of 121 GP practices and NHS services provided by North Wales dentists, opticians and pharmacies.
Quality of life and the partners’ ambitions for the practice.
The doctors are looking forward to the future with optimism, to continue to provide high quality care for our patients. NHS primary care is and remains our core work, and we also encourage each other’s personal development. We remain very positive about the future of General Practice.
We see the vacancy as an opportunity for a new doctor to join with us to give quality care to our patients. To work closely with the existing partners and to make their mark while developing their own interests.
We consider our partnership in owned premises, offers us clear advantages including mutual support, clinical professionalism and the ability to control our own work. We enjoy the business interest, a high level of independence from external management and take pride in developing our own staff.
The GPs and Practice Manager
To give you an insight into what makes us “tick”, here are short reviews on the doctors and practice manager at Pendre Surgery.
Dr Emma Poyner MB ChB MRCGP BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences
Emma joined the partnership in October 2012, having qualified as a GP in 2010 from the Wrexham VTS scheme. She had previously worked at Pendre as a locum on occasion and was drawn to us by the friendly and supportive atmosphere that she experienced here. She qualified from Warwick Medical School having always wanted to work in General Practice. She has an interest in Women’s Health, Diabetes and Palliative care and is qualified to fit contraceptive implants. She has experience of working in the GP Out of Hours service. She also has a university qualification in clinical hypnotherapy and is studying for the Diploma in Occupational Medicine at present.
Emma grew up in the area, attended Mold Alun School and has many links with the local community including 2 school governor roles. She also runs a first aid/health and safety company with her partner. She has 2 daughters, currently 14 and 7 years old and so the majority of her free time is spent with her family and friends.
Dr. Veronika Hlinomazova, MUDr. Prague 1998, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH
Veronika graduated from Charles University of Prague in 1998. She had a keen interest in General Practice even before she graduated, so after her foundation years she joined the vocational training in Prague and achieved her GP qualification in 2002. She became a single handed Principal General Practitioner in a small semi-rural practice. Veronika moved to the UK two years later and joined the Queensferry Medical Practice as a Salaried General Practitioner. After three years she joined Bronyffynnon Surgery, a training practice in Denbigh, where she worked as a Salaried General Practitioner for six years. Veronika joined Pendre Surgery as a GP Partner in April 2014. She is a GP trainer and has interest in Woman’s Health, especially menopause and Care of the Elderly. She holds Letter of Competence in Intrauterine techniques and Subdermal Implants. She also has interest in practice finance. In her spare time she enjoys cycling with her husband and horse riding with her 12 year old daughter.
Dr Lucy Beebe MB ChB (hons), MRCGP BSc (hons) Psychology with Neuroscience
Lucy joined the practice in December 2020. She studied and completed her foundation training in Leicester. Lucy worked as a paediatric trainee before moving over to general practice. She continues to enjoy working with children and is our safeguarding lead. Prior to becoming a partner at Pendre, Lucy worked as a salaried GP in Prestatyn.
Originally from Ellesmere Port, she now lives locally with her husband, two sons and new puppy, Betty. In her spare time, Lucy enjoys reading, exploring North Wales and spending time with her family.
Dr Alison Bentley MB ChB 2013, MRCGP
Alison joined the partnership in May 2023. Completing her MBChB at Leicester University along with a BSc(Hons) in Diagnostic Radiotherapy.
Having worked as a salaried GP in England Alison has gravitated back to Wales where she first trained on the Wrexham VTS Scheme.
Alison enjoys photography and is a keen traveller who loves the outdoors and spends her free time hill walking, diving and horse riding.
Dr Samantha Burton BSc MBBCh 2007, MRCGP
Sam is our GP Retainer who joined the practice in October 2016. Qualifying from Cardiff University in 2007 she has an interest in obstetrics and gynaecology. She has worked as a Salaried GP and locum in the Wrexham area prior to joining the practice. Sam enjoys the great outdoors and spends much of her free time mountain walking, running and swimming.
Dr Iwan Williams MBChB 2006, MRCGP 2011
Iwan was welcomed into the practice in May 2023 as a Salaried GP having qualified as a GP in 2011. He is also a GP Trainer.
Originally from North Wales Iwan studied at Cardiff University and became a GP partner in South Wales before deciding to return to the Mold area with his wife and three children.
Iwan enjoys sports, hiking and skiing, and spending time with family and friends.
Dr Neil Oldham MBChB 2016, MRCGP, DCH
Neil is the most recent Salaried GP to join the practice in February 2024. He recently re-located to North Wales from Lancashire. Neil is a keen runner and enjoys playing tennis in his free time.
Mrs Alison Davies Practice Manager
Alison joined the practice in 1999 as Practice Manager. She developed a taste for general practice when she took on a part-time job as a Medical Receptionist in Denbigh whilst bringing up her only child. Alison found the medical environment both interesting and stimulating and subsequently took up the roles of Medical Secretary, Fund-holding Administrator and Registrar, deputising for the Business Manager. After successfully completing a Practice Manager Development Programme she decided to undertake a Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Care Management in 1998 and applied to join the practice a year later.
Alison has been with the practice for 25 years because she finds it such a supportive and happy team to work in and because the work is constantly stimulating and challenging. In her personal life Alison enjoys dancing, gardening and music concerts. She has a BSAC qualification in sub aqua diving but after a few near misses feels that some things are best left in the past!
We welcome enquiries to discover more through our practice manager:
Mrs Alison Davies
Pendre Surgery
Clayton Road
Mold
Flintshire CH7 1SS
Tel: 01352 744381
Email: Alison.Davies23@wales.nhs.uk