General Practitioner - Hmp North Sea Camp

Northamptonshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Boston; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NHFT is recruiting General Practitioners (up to 6 sessions a week) to work at HMP North Sea Camp, near Boston, Lincolnshire. This Cat D open prison offers rehabilitation opportunities with access to a wide range of specialists through a polyclinic model.

You will provide physical healthcare equivalent to community practice, working with mental health, substance misuse, dentistry, physiotherapy and more. A trauma-informed approach is central, with protected CPD time and potential hybrid working.

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the GMC as a General Practitioner.
• Must be on the NHS Performers' List.
• Experience working with vulnerable populations and substance misuse.

Responsibilities

• Provide physical healthcare equivalent to community practice within a prison polyclinic.
• Work autonomously to defined competencies with governance support.
• Potential cross-cover for GP colleagues at other Lincolnshire prison sites.
• Typical week includes clinics, patient reviews, team meetings, admin and CPD time.

Skills

GMC GP Register

NHS Performers' List

Vulnerable populations

Substance misuse certificate

Multi-professional teamwork

Clinical governance

Trauma-informed care

Job description

Job summary

NHFT is recruiting General Practitioners (up to 6 sessions a week) to work at HMP North Sea Camp, near Boston, Lincolnshire. This is a Cat D open prison assisting in the rehabilitation of offenders who enjoy significant work opportunities as well as visit Boston and their home area. If you are interested in improving the lives of the most socially deprived population with complex health morbidities, then this job is for you. You will be providing physical healthcare equivalent to that in the community with fellow doctors and other healthcare professionals through a polyclinic model with expertise in Physical Health, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Sexual Health etc. As such you will have quick access to all these specialists for your patients as compared to the lengthy waiting times in community practices.

Main duties of the job

You will be a senior and experienced clinician who can work autonomously to a level of defined competencies, as agreed within local clinical governance frameworks. You will join an outstanding-rated Trust delivering trauma-informed healthcare within prisons, supported by strong medical leadership, protected CPD time and there may be an opportunity for some hybrid working. You may be asked to provide cross cover for GP colleagues at other prison sites within the Lincolnshire area. A typical working week is likely to include clinics/patient reviews, team meetings, liaison with other professionals, clinical administration, and supervision of clinical colleagues.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For full details please read the attached job description or alternatively contact the team for more information

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Evidence of being on the GMC General Practitioner Register and on an NHS Performers' List
• Clinical experience including work with vulnerable populations and patients with substance misuse problems. RCGP Part 1 Substance Misuse Certificate essential
• Experience of multi-professional teamwork and an understanding of what makes teams function effectively
• Familiarity with tools for effective clinical governance and quality improvement
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries, organizations, and systems to build effective partnerships and innovation in general practice and advanced clinical practice service delivery

Behaviours and Values

Essential

• Willing to ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes.
• Willing to comply with professional codes of practice and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to primary care, substance misuse and mental health services within secure settings, through engagement in health and justice clinical networks and communities of practice and with operational colleagues.
• Reliable and accessible to colleagues within HMP Bedford and the Secured Services Directorate
• Willing to embrace a trauma-informed approach, modelling empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of others, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.
• Able to lead with compassion and humility, to demonstrate integrity, and to motivate, inspire and empower both individual colleagues and teams, fostering a culture in which hope, kindness, resilience, and excellence thrive
• Able to work as part of a team and within a leadership structure.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to prioritize effectively, to work in a flexible way, and to respond to change to support the needs of patients within an evolving staffing structure at HMP Bedford
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills that align with the trauma-informed values of Secured Services
• The ability to lead others and work within a leadership structure with discernment and integrity to ensure that professional and business decisions can be made that reflect the values of NHFT.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines
• Experience of teaching, mentoring or supervision of clinical colleagues. Tier 2 or Tier 3 Educator status is desirable but not essential as Tier 2 training can be facilitated as part of CPD
• Ability to assimilate data to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of general practice and senior clinical service provision
• Ability to communicate information in a range of formats including one-to-one meetings, formal and informal meetings, written reports and electronic communication including small databases
• Ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings

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 window).