Primary Care Clinical Lead
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Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want towork with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our healthcare team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Join us in a stimulating role at HMP Ashfield, where you can truly flourish as a clinical leader. We seek a dynamic and passionate individual to fill the Primary Care Clinical Lead role. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll be the driving force behind our Primary Care service, steering a team of diverse and talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.But that's just the beginning, you will be the architect of new standards in healthcare within our establishment. From developing to implementing and monitoring unique quality improvement initiatives, clinical protocols, and guidelines, your work will directly enhance patient safety and outcomes. Your role will extend beyond the walls of HMP Ashfield. You will develop and nurture vital relationships with other healthcare providers, prison staff, and external agencies, promoting an integrated approach to healthcare. Collaborating with the Head of Healthcare, you will have a significant role in strategically planning our healthcare services, aligning with national standards and local needs. Your visionary approach will identify areas for improvement and innovation, allowing you to lead on initiatives that transform service delivery. The role is more than a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact, leading and shaping Primary Care services in a prison setting. If your passion lies in bridging health disparities and reducing health inequalities for a marginalised and often overlooked population, we invite you to bring your skills, vision, and enthusiasm to this immensely rewarding role at HMP Ashfield.Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult/General)
- Post graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification practice
- Demonstrates senior management level or supervisory role including managing change and introducing new ways of working.
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Working knowledge of current issues and agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
About the employer
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 therapy, 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: