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Job reference: 029323
Salary: Various
Job closing date: 25/11/2020
Job Type: Medical and Dental
Location: HMP - Barlinnie
Employment type: Fixed-term
Hours Per Week: Various
Job posted date: 22/09/2020
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Department: Prison Healthcare

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General Practitioner in Prison Healthcare

HMP Barlinnie


The General Medical Practitioner is expected to undertake the following activities to a level of competence appropriate to a General Medical Practitioner:

o Diagnosis and management of new symptoms and conditions. A primary care nurse will usually triage prisoner/patients reporting new symptoms and if unable to deal with the symptoms may refer the patient to the General Medical Practitioner.

o Follow-up and care of chronic and recurrent conditions. This includes regular review of continuing medication and advising nurses or other healthcare professionals on the management of the prisoner/patient.

o Prescribing for the management of drug and alcohol dependence.

o Medical examinations of newly received prisoner/patients as requested by a triage nurse. Timely and appropriate interventions should be arranged with particular attention to those:

 

  • Already under treatment
  • With symptoms that may indicate an undiagnosed illness
  • With current illness
  • With a history of drug or alcohol abuse
  • With a history of attempted suicide or self-harm
  • With a mental health problem
     
    o Assessment of prisoner/patients to determine fitness for cellular confinement with respect to adjudication.
    o Assessment of prisoner/patients recognised to be at risk of self harm. To help identify and care for prisoner/patients at risk of suicide or self-harm, the Scottish Prison Service uses a suicide risk management and care-planning system called ACT2Care, designed to provide more flexible multi-disciplinary support to prisoner/patients at-risk of harming themselves. General Medical Practitioners are required to sign off and contribute to documentation. Training will be provided on this process.
    o Regular assessment and review of prisoner/patients in agreement with the Health Centre Manager.
    o Injured prisoner/patients. Prisoner/patients are involved in a variety of activities that might lead to injury: self-harm, fights, control & restraint applied appropriately by staff, sports / gym, work accidents, and bullying. Injured prisoner/patients will be assessed by a nurse.

 

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