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General Practitioner - Yarl's Wood IRC

On-site in Clapham·Added yesterday (last checked 11 Nov)

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Salary
£113,565 - £150,569 a year

About £6,140 - £7,630 a month after tax.

Work mode
On-site, Clapham
Experience
Senior level
Closing date
Apply by Wednesday 25 November

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

£113,565 to £150,569 a year pa pro rata

The role

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

What you'll do

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.

For full details please read the attached job description or alternatively contact the team for more information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Yarl's Wood IRC

Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road,

Clapham

MK41 6HL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Date posted

11 November 2026

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Job locations

Yarl's Wood IRC

Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road,

Clapham

United Kingdom

About Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Industry
Health and social care

In their own words

About the company & team

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.

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