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Job requirements
Essential
19 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- 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
- Skills and Abilities
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills that align with the trauma-informed values of Secured Services
- Skills and Abilities
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.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines
- Skills and Abilities
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
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to assimilate data to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of general practice and senior clinical service provision
- Skills and Abilities
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
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings
- 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.
- Behaviours and Values
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.
- Behaviours and Values
Reliable and accessible to colleagues within HMP Bedford and the Secured Services Directorate
- Behaviours and Values
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.
- Behaviours and Values
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
- Behaviours and Values
Able to work as part of a team and within a leadership structure.
- Knowledge and Experience
Evidence of being on the GMC General Practitioner Register and on an NHS Performers’ List
- Knowledge and Experience
Clinical experience including work with vulnerable populations and patients with substance misuse problems. RCGP Part 1 Substance Misuse Certificate essential
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of multi-professional teamwork and an understanding of what makes teams function effectively
- Knowledge and Experience
Familiarity with tools for effective clinical governance and quality improvement
- Knowledge and Experience
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
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking experienced and motivated General Practitioners to join our Bank and support healthcare services across our Nottinghamshire prison sites.
Following the successful expansion of healthcare services within Nottinghamshire Prisons, we are looking for Bank GPs who can provide high-quality primary care. This is a unique opportunity to work within a rewarding clinical environment alongside a dynamic, diverse, and supportive multidisciplinary team.
You will work closely with General Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Non-Medical Prescribers, Nurses, Pharmacy Teams, Allied Health Professionals, Clinical Leads, and Operational Colleagues to deliver exceptional care and improve health outcomes for patients within a secure setting.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide high quality primary care medical services to the prison population at various prisons in the Notts and Lincs area, providing cover as needed.
The post holder will be on the GMC General Practitioner Register and on an NHS Performers’ List. Previous experience working within secured environments is not essential as full induction and training will be provided. More critical to the role are:
- character qualities of integrity and discernment with a growth mindset and a willingness to embrace NHFT values and leadership behaviours
- excellent clinical and communication skills and a desire to share these skills with GPs in training, ANPs and NMPs, through teaching and training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details please read the attached job description or alternatively contact the team for more information
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Bank General Practitioner - HMP Notts and Lincs with Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Nottingham, England. It is listed as a General practitioner Medical doctor General Practitioner role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 pa pro rata. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 05 Nov 2026.
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