General Practitioner

Job Introduction

General Practitioner – HMP Norwich

Join our dedicated prison healthcare team and make a difference every day. 

Are you a passionate and committed General Practitioner looking for an opportunity to deliver meaningful, patient-centred care in a unique and rewarding environment? We are seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate GP to join our healthcare team at HMP Norwich.

Working within a multidisciplinary healthcare setting, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality primary care to a diverse prison population, many of whom have complex physical, mental health and social care needs. This is an opportunity to use your clinical expertise to improve health outcomes, address health inequalities and make a genuine difference to people who may have previously experienced barriers to accessing healthcare.

Main Responsibilities:

• Undertake new and follow up consultations including a full assessment of the medical condition, the patients concerns and expectations. The post holder will enter full details of history, findings, diagnosis and treatment plans onto the electronic clinical system
• Surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients in cell, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Ensure that the patient or carers are fully informed, answer any questions involved in any decisions about treatment supplying written information if required

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification -

Essential: 

• Full GMC Registration
• UK permit or right to work in the UK
• Commitment to professional development
• Knowledge of the NHS
• Understands the importance of evidence based practice and clinical effectiveness
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and quality issues and health and social policy
• Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, both computerized and manual
• Experience of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A ‘solutions focused’ approach
• Ability to listen and empathize
• Potential to cope with stressful situations
• bility to undertake responsibility•    Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding of the role of teamwork in providing quality care
• Trustworthy

Desirable:

• Evidence of interest in additional clinical skills
• Able to perform minor surgery
• Experience of Clinical systems
• Prison Healthcare experience

Other requirements: The post holder will be expected to work flexibly across both sites throughout the week.

Please see the job description attached for full specification.

Package Description 

As a General Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at our prison service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• GP Salary
• NHS Pension!
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

About the Company 

We change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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