Salaried GP – HMP Liverpool + £1500 Welcome Payment
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
Job overview
Are you a GP seeking a role that combines clinical diversity with real purpose? We’re looking for a Salaried GP to join our enhanced primary care service – where you’ll deliver comprehensive care, lead clinical governance, and work in a unique setting that offers both professional challenge and genuine reward.
Benefits
- Outstanding reputation – CQC-praised for innovative care and strong leadership
- Excellent benefits – NHS pension, competitive salary, enhanced weekend/night rates
- Job security – stable, long‑term career opportunities
- Professional development – work alongside experienced GPs with opportunities for leadership and service development
- Supportive environment – collaborative multidisciplinary team committed to excellence
This is general practice with a difference – diverse clinical presentations, clinical leadership opportunities, and the chance to make a profound impact on an underserved population while maintaining the highest standards of care.
Main duties of the job
Deliver high-quality, comprehensive primary care in our Category B local prison while taking on clinical leadership responsibilities.
What you’ll do:
- Lead GP clinics – manage the full range of primary care presentations, from chronic disease management to acute illness, delivering holistic, patient‑centred care
- Provide clinical supervision – oversee Non‑Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and support the substance misuse service with your clinical expertise and prescribing oversight
- Deliver urgent care – respond to acute and urgent wing‑based visits, making critical clinical decisions in time‑sensitive situations
- Support new arrivals – contribute to the reception function by assessing and prescribing for new patients, including managing detoxification medications from day one
- Manage complex cases – provide clinical oversight for patients with multiple comorbidities and challenging presentations, ensuring coordinated, evidence‑based care
- Lead clinical governance – take responsibility for safeguarding, clinical governance processes, and maintaining the highest standards of safe practice
- Drive quality improvement – engage in audits and quality improvement projects that enhance service delivery and patient outcomes
- Work in partnership – collaborate with our Lead GP to ensure safe, effective practice and deliver care that matches community standards
Ready for a GP role that’s truly different?
Working for our organisation
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team. Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!
Benefits and support
- Access to NHS Pension
- Annual leave on your Birthday
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The role is site based at HMP Liverpool.
We will consider part time/job share however this must remain within core service hours.
Person specification
Knowledge
- Primary Care and Mental Health
- Drug and alcohol awareness
- Chronic disease management
- Understanding of current health and social policy particularly offender health
- Understanding of clinical risk management and governance
- Principles of substance misuse treatment and pharmacotherapy Dependant Forming Medications
- Understanding of principles & research
- Demonstrated breadth of knowledge in and outside this specialist area
- Understanding of NHS clinical governance/GP contracts/medicines management and resource constraints/financial management
- Up-to-date on new GP and pharmacy contracts
Qualifications
- Medical degree recognised by the General Medical Council
- Full GMC Registration
- MRCGP CCT
- Recognised Certificate of Vocational Training or equivalent JCTGP
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in the relevant clinical and service improvement areas
- RCGP Certificate Part 1 and 2 – Substance Misuse
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Dr Richard Dufton Job title Lead GP Email address Richard.Dufton@spectrum-cic.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 530 4110 Additional informationHead of Healthcare Services- Paul James, Paul.James2@spectrum-cic.nhs.uk
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