Job overview
NHFT is seeking General Practitioners to provide high-quality, trauma-informed primary care services at HMP Bedford.
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.
Working Pattern / Sessions
- Core hours: 08:30 – 17:00 (weekday, on site)
- Additional sessions: Weekday evenings: 17:00 – 22:00 (on site) Saturdays: 14:00 – 18:00 (on site)
- Weekday evenings: 17:00 – 22:00 (on site)
- Saturdays: 14:00 – 18:00 (on site)
- Additional opportunities: Video consultations for late receptions Cover for annual leave, training and partner sites
- Video consultations for late receptions
- Cover for annual leave, training and partner sites
Main duties of the job
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details please read the attached job description or alternatively contact the team for more information
Person specification
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
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.
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
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This advert is for General Practitioner - HMP Bedford with Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Kettering, Midlands, 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 Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Aug 2026.
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