Forensics Service Manager

This is your opportunity to step into a senior leadership role at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as Service Manager for Forensics. Our medium secure and low secure services are delivered at Bracton Centre, Memorial Hospital and at community sites and have been rated outstanding by the CQC. You will be a highly visible and inspirational leader with substantial senior management experience in a health or social care setting and demonstrable experience of operational management of clinical services.

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Provide senior strategic leadership across acute and community forensic services, ensuring high‐quality clinical practice, robust governance and effective delivery across pathways.

Build strong relationships with partners to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of Forensic Services.

Oversee operational performance , managing resources, budgets, staffing structures and risk to ensure the highest standards of safety, effectiveness and experience.

Be a visible, credible leader , supporting staff across multiple teams and fostering a culture of compassion, accountability and continuous learning.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language thera

py, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Aisling Thompson Job title: Service Director Email address: aisling.thompson2@nhs.net Telephone number: 01322 297152