Primary Care Clinical Lead

Job Summary

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work 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.

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] 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: We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care.

Job Responsibilities

• The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service.
• To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders.
• Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues.
• Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.
• Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.
• Provide a range of quality services and intervention.
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

Management responsibilities:

• To play a lead role in the on-going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.
• Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
• Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed.

Leadership:

• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisals.
• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.

Clinical:

• The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatient manager and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
• To manage a clinical caseload.
• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offenders care pathway whilst detained in prison.

Research:

• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.
• To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

Communication:

• To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.

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.

Additional Information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

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Address: HMP Ashfield, Shortwood Road, Pucklechurch, Bristol, BS16 9QJ
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Contact

For questions about the job, contact: Head of Healthcare, Rachel Prodger, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], [contact hidden]