# General Practitioner - HMP Various sites > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/general-practitioner-hmp-various-sites/c0703459-2c4f-4e04-a397-b019300dee6d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/general-practitioner-hmp-various-sites/c0703459-2c4f-4e04-a397-b019300dee6d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Kettering - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** General Practitioner - **Grade:** General practitioner - **Salary:** £76,038 - £114,743 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T12:42:46.730Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Lincoln/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Secured_Services/Secured_Services-v8175024 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8175024?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview NHFT is recruiting General Practitioners to work across a number of secured sites in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, delivering high-quality care to complex patient populations. Working Pattern / Sessions - Core weekday hours: 08:30 – 17:00 - Additional sessions (site dependent): - Weekday evenings: 17:00 – 22:00 - Saturdays: 14:00 – 18:00 - Additional flexible opportunities: - Remote prescribing and video consultations for late/weekend receptions - Cover for partner sites, training and leave ### Main duties of the job - Deliver primary care across sites - Manage complex patient needs - 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 ## Documents - [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047) - [notts and lincs prisons (pdf, 792.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477720) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.