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General Practitioner in Offender Health | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Salary dependant on experience |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2024 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN2 4BD |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6521229/186-6147965-JD |
Summary
Prison medicine is a dynamic and challenging area where you have the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives and lifestyles of a group of patients who face multiple barriers to improving their health and accessing appropriate healthcare.
Working within our Offender Health care unit you will be part of a high quality and motivated team who provide integrated healthcare to 8 prisons across the region. The healthcare provision is along the poly clinic model with easy access through on-site provision of a comprehensive mental health service, a substance misuse service, physiotherapy, optometrics, dentistry etc as well as the support of ACPs and other experienced physical health nurses providing clinics for long term conditions etc. You will have the opportunity to help shape and determine the future of healthcare to this patient population.
Our current requirements are in Lincolnshire prisons namely in HMP Lincoln and Swinderby; Short term holding facility at Morton Hall prison. Whilst we need up to 6 sessions of GP time a week across these prisons we are very happy to consider applications for a day a week or more depending on the applicant’s personal circumstances.
• Provision clinical consultations to enable assessment, diagnosis and treatment patients with acute care needs and long-term conditions.
• Arranging investigations and onward referrals in line with national guidelines and best practice
• Maintaining ongoing prescribing of required medication in line with Safe Prescribing Guidelines.
• Managing and acting on pathology results and clinical correspondence.
• Responding to clinical queries from primary care team
• Delivering care in line with Notts Healthcare clinical guidelines and protocols
Prison medicine is a dynamic and challenging area where you have the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives and lifestyles of a group of patients who face multiple barriers to improving their health and accessing appropriate healthcare.
Working within our Offender Health care unit you will be part of a high quality and motivated team who provide integrated healthcare to 8 prisons across the region. You will have the opportunity to help shape and determine the future of healthcare to this patient population.
• Provide clinical consultations to enable assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute care needs and long-term conditions’
• Arranging investigations and onward referrals in line with national guidelines and best practice
• Maintaining ongoing prescribing of required medication in line with Safe Prescribing Guidelines.
• Managing and acting on pathology results and clinical correspondence.
• Responding to clinical queries from primary care team
• Provide senior clinical advice and leadership to the primary care team
• A key member of the primary care MDT and multipathway complex care team
• Delivering care in line with Notts Healthcare clinical guidelines and protocols
This advert closes on Monday 26 Aug 2024
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