General Practitioner - HMP Peterborough

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting General Practitioners to provide trauma-informed primary care at HMP Peterborough. You will work within an integrated MDT delivering care across physical health, mental health and substance misuse to a population with complex needs.

The Trust promotes learning, quality improvement and opportunities to supervise and teach within challenging, multi-disciplinary settings at the prison and community sites.

Responsibilities

• Deliver primary care including acute, chronic disease, mental health and substance misuse
• Undertake reception screening and urgent care
• Work collaboratively and lead clinically within multi-disciplinary teams
• Participate in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement
• Support teaching and supervision

Job description

NHFT is seeking General Practitioners to provide high-quality, trauma-informed primary care services at HMP Peterborough.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team delivering integrated care across physical health, mental health and substance misuse to a population with complex and often unmet health needs.

• Deliver primary care including acute, chronic disease, mental health and substance misuse
• Undertake reception screening and urgent care
• Work collaboratively and lead clinically within multi-disciplinary teams
• Participate in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement
• Support teaching and supervision

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Michael Utterson Job title: Clinical Director - Secured Services - EofE Email address: [e-mail]

Dr Caroline Watson

Deputy Medical Director - Secured Services

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