The HMP Bedford Lead General Practitioner role offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership within HMP Bedford, working with a dynamic, diverse and friendly team of General Practitioners, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Non-Medical Prescribers, nurses, pharmacy, allied health professional and administrative colleagues, Clinical Leads and Head of Service. The Lead GP will work with and report to the HMP Bedford Head of Healthcare and they will be supported by and accountable to the NHFT Lead GP and Clinical Director for Secured Services.

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.
• a passion for delivering trauma-informed high-quality primary care as part of an integrated team to improve the health and patient experience of men housed at HMP Bedford.

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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• 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.
• a passion for delivering trauma-informed high-quality primary care as part of an integrated team to improve the health and patient experience of men housed at HMP Bedford