General Practitioner - HMP Five Wells

As one of the GP’s at HMP Five Wells, you’ll provide clinical oversight across a challenging, yet demanding patient group, in a brand new custodial environment. You will be pivotal in engaging the clinical workforce to support the delivery of the organisation’s objectives, and will have the chance to further develop your clinical and medical skills. We recognise training and development is key, therefore we utilise our training centre to facilitate your needs. You will gain insight and training in Mental Health and Substance Misuse.

Due to the size of the prison, we are looking to recruit a team of GP’s to support clinical alongside a wide clinical team including primary care nurses, mental health professionals and substance misuse experts. You will work as part of this multidisciplinary team to manage complex patients and get involved with using new technologies (like telemedicine) to improve care to the population. Whether you are wanting to work a few sessions as part of your portfolio work, or interested in working for us full time, we would welcome you getting in touch with us. We are able to offer sessions during the main working week, but also in the evenings and also at the weekend, to fit around the existing commitments you may have. 

If you are new to offender health, we will create a suitable induction package to ensure you are equipped for this exciting role. In this high profile, exciting role, you will create a positive and diverse working environment leading on a number of critical areas as the prison is mobilised and subsequently opened:

- Clinical pathways
- Stakeholder engagement
- Patient engagement

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day, then this is the place to be.

HMP Five Wells is a new establishment which began receiving patients from January 2022. It is a Category C resettlement men’s prison which will have an operational capacity of 1,680 by November 2022. HMP Five Wells is based in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. It is approximately 30 minutes from Bedford, 20 minutes from Northampton and 35 minutes north of Milton Keynes by car. Healthcare operates 7 days a week therefore you will be required to work weekends depending on your position.

We are the Health in Justice Market leader, providing healthcare services to prisoners across the country. Our model of care is our Wellbeing Approach – an integrated, comprehensive approach in recognition of the fact prisoners are a socially-excluded group with healthcare needs which are complex and often associated with poor outcomes. It adopts the premise no single health/wellbeing factor can be taken in isolation of other motivational issues which might impact a person’s care

We are passionate about what we do and our core values are:

• We treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• We act with integrity
• We embrace diversity
• We strive to do things better together.

If this resonates with you then we’d like to hear from you!

Please note that offers of employment are subject to Practice Plus Group Terms & Conditions and receipt of satisfactory references, an enhanced DBS check and prison vetting.

At Practice Plus Group we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities and we are committed to this in both the running of our prison healthcare service and how we recruit our staff. We actively encourage applications from everyone with the essential requirements of the job, regardless of any protected characteristics.