General Practitioner - Yarl's wood IRC

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Clapham; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a skilled GP to provide high-quality, person-centred general medical services for detainees at Yarl's Wood IRC. You will assess and manage acute illness, chronic disease and mental health needs within an interdependent health and wellbeing team.

The role involves face-to-face consultations (and remote where appropriate), trauma-informed care, and timely referral and follow-up to ensure safe, accessible care for people who may have

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with current UK practising licence.
• Experience in primary care settings and urgent care.
• Ability to provide trauma-informed care and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide general medical services to detained individuals at Yarl's Wood IRC.
• Assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients as needed.
• Undertake face-to-face and remote consultations where appropriate.
• Work as part of integrated health and wellbeing team.

Skills

General practice

Trauma-informed care

Culturally responsive

Patient-centred care

Clinical risk management

Education

MBBS/MD (General Practice)

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

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

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.

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 Email address: [e-mail]