Lead General Practitioner

Job summary

Lead General Practitioner role at HMP Pentonville, a category B remand Prison in Islington close to Caledonian Road Station. The site houses around 1180 male patients aged 18+, many of whom have complex health, acute and substance misuse needs. The service also includes an 18-bed inpatient unit. Within this role you will oversee the delivery of a high quality GP service and clinically supervise around 6 GPs who work either substantively or bank. You will assist with training, rotas, clinical sessions, lead the MPCCC, and chair safer prescribing meetings.

The role has a split of 4 sessions of leadership and 6 sessions of clinical work per week.

Hours and salary

Monday - Friday, sessions can sit between 8 am - 10 pm.

Full time role. Annual salary up to £145 000 per annum, depending on experience.

Key responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership and expert advice on medical and primary care issues.
• Identify and utilise evidence based best practice through benchmarking and clinical guidelines.
• Chair the MPCCC & safer prescribing meetings and support 72 hour review meetings.
• Ensure systems and processes are in place for managing results, letters, and tasks.
• Be a core member of the local QA and MM meetings.
• Review RCA findings and engage with action planning, ensuring lessons learned are embedded.
• Support the development of local operating policies.
• Support the Head of Healthcare at local delivery board meetings.
• Attend clinical forums.
• Review CVs for potential new GPs and locum/agency GPs and support recruitment into the service.
• Induct new GPs into the local site.
• Provide peer review & clinical supervision to other GPs.
• Escalate performance concerns to the regional cluster lead where appropriate.

Qualifications and experience

• MBChB or MBBS.
• Inclusion on the GMC Register and GP Performers list.
• RCGP 1 and 2 substance misuse qualifications or willingness to undertake the qualifications.
• Ability to work with patients with a history of substance misuse.
• Interest in long term conditions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Knowledge of methods for developing clinical quality assurance.
• Ability to develop evidence based best practice.

How we support you

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course.
• Competency framework with regional and national career development opportunities.
• Bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs.
• Support from the wider team.
• Legal right to work in the UK required; offers subject to additional vetting and security checks.

About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We are the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Equal opportunity

Practice Plus Group is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.