General Practitioner - Yarl's wood IRC

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is recruiting a General Practitioner to work at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. You will provide patient-centered medical care inside a secure setting, assessing and managing acute illness, chronic conditions, medicines and clinical risk.

You'll join an interdependent health and wellbeing team, delivering trauma-informed care, including remote consultations when appropriate, with a focus on access, equity and confidentiality for detained

Qualifications

• Evidence of GMC General Practitioner Register and NHS Performers' List.
• Clinical experience with vulnerable populations and substance misuse problems.
• Experience in multi-professional teamwork and clinical governance.
• Ability to build partnerships and drive improvement in primary care in secure settings.
• Commitment to trauma-informed, patient-centred care and professional CPD.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, evidence-based assessment, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and referral for detainees at Yarl's Wood IRC.
• Undertake face-to-face and remote consultations; decide on examine/transfer/emergency care as needed.
• Contribute to health assessments and ensure appropriate follow-up of identified risks.

Skills

GMC GP Register

Substance misuse certificate

Vulnerable populations care

Teamwork

Clinical governance

Partnerships

Job description

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

General Practitioner - Yarl's wood IRC

The closing date is 25 November 2026

The post holder will provide high-quality, person-centred general medical services for people detained at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC). Working as part of an interdependent health and wellbeing team, the GP will assess and manage acute illness, long-term conditions, complex physical and mental health needs, medicines and clinical risk. Care must be trauma-informed, culturally responsive and accessible to people who may have experienced displacement, torture, trafficking, abuse or significant health inequality

Working as part of an interdependent health and wellbeing team, the GP will assess and manage acute illness, long-term conditions, complex physical and mental health needs, medicines and clinical risk. Care must be trauma-informed, culturally responsive and accessible to people who may have experienced displacement, torture, trafficking, abuse or significant health inequality

Main duties of the job

Provide timely, evidence-based assessment, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, follow-up and referral for people detained at the IRC, including urgent presentations, long-term conditions and complex multimorbidity.

Undertake face-to-face consultations and, where clinically appropriate and authorised, remote consultations; make safe decisions about when examination, urgent transfer or emergency care is required.

Contribute to reception, initial and ongoing health assessment arrangements, prioritising care according to clinical need and ensuring appropriate follow-up of identified risks.

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Yarl's Wood IRC

Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road,