Job summary
- Main area
- GP
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 825-7504479-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP/YOI Stoke Heath
- Town
- Market Drayton
- Salary
- £76,038 - £114,743 per annum/pro rata - plus recruitment and retention payment
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Prison GP
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Job overview
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides high quality NHS commissioned healthcare. Our focus is on patient centred care delivered through a variety of innovative and collaborative approaches. The Trust was awarded the contract to provide healthcare services at HMP/YOI Stoke Heath in April 2019.
An opportunity has arisen for a GP who is passionate about Prison Health, primary care, and healthcare innovation to join the Trust.
This will be a substantive part-time post attracting many benefits of NHS employment including NHS pension and time served inducements. Previous experience working within secure environments is essential. Full induction and training will be provided. More critical are the personal attributes encompassing a passion for the delivery of high-quality primary care, a desire to innovate and transform models of service delivery to meet the current challenges encountered across all sectors of primary care, and a willingness to work as part of a transformative integrated
team.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you apply early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
As Lead GP your time will be dedicated to on-site clinical care provision as a critical member of an experienced and passionate multi-disciplinary primary healthcare team. You will be involved in a blended model of care delivery comprising both face to face primary care and complex case care planning as part of an MDT. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and support to members of the prison’s healthcare team.
Working with your Head of Healthcare and Senior Operational Managers you will be responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of GP clinical services on site.You will have the support of a highly skilled partnership of allied professionals forming an expert multidisciplinary team. Key partners and stakeholders will include Nursing, Substance Misuse, Pharmacy, Mental Health, Psychosocial Recovery Services and on-site Paramedics.
As Lead GP you will be supported by clinical leaders within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust working to enable you to support the delivery of an innovative, digitally enabled, future focused primary care model.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered GP.
- On GP Performers list.
- Able to demonstrate generalist skills.
- Willingness to work towards Post Graduate qualification in RCGP- Part 1 or Part 2 Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse.
- GMC registration.
- Member of appropriate defence organisation.
- JCPTGP certificate.
- Evidence of continued professional and managerial development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a GP role.
- Previous recent experience in the care of patients who have challenging behaviour / substance misuse problems conditions for a minimum of six months.
- Experience in investigation techniques and the ordering of diagnostics.
- Experience in involvement in audit.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-professional team.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written, with the ability to demonstrate skills in dictation and letter writing.
- Competence in teaching and training other health care professionals and a commitment to cascading knowledge and skills.
- Knowledge of Government NHS developments impacting on the service.
- Computer literacy.
- Basic keyboard skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Newton
- Job title
- Head of Healthcare
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01630 636035
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