# General Practitioner - HMP Highdown

**Company**: DoctorPA Secure LTD
**Location**: Sutton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Salary**: £320 a session
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a GP in a prison setting, you will play a vital role in improving health outcomes for individuals with complex health and social care needs.

**Main Duties:**

- Provide full GP services including consultations, clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and referrals.

- Manage chronic diseases, acute presentations, and mental health conditions.

- Contribute to the management of substance misuse and support detox pathways.

- Work collaboratively with nursing staff, mental health professionals, pharmacists, and external healthcare providers.

- Participate in clinical audits, risk assessments, and safeguarding processes.

- Maintain comprehensive clinical records using the prison's electronic health record system.

**Requirements:**

- Fully qualified GP with current GMC registration and licence to practise.

- Experience in primary care, with sound clinical decision-making and patient management skills.

- Strong understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, and healthcare delivery in secure environments.

- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

**Desirable:**

- Experience working in prison healthcare, secure units, or with vulnerable populations.

- Additional qualifications in substance misuse, mental health, or sexual health.

- Knowledge of relevant NHS and prison healthcare policies and procedures.

**Salary:** £320 per session

**Contract:** Locum, 6 months, Part-time, Flexible working

## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- primary care experience
- clinical decision-making
- patient management
- safeguarding
- confidentiality

### Nice to have
- prison healthcare experience
- substance misuse qualification
- mental health qualification
- sexual health qualification

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