Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career. Oxleas NHS Foudation Trust were awarded the South West Prisons contract in 2022. We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Substance Misuse Clinical Lead (ACP) to join our friendly team at HMP Erlestoke 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 Clinical 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 substance misuse 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. As a senior practitioner, leader and source of expert advice to clinicians, patients, and their carers, you will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence. You will manage a multi-disciplinary team, the Clinical Substance Misuse team, and support primary care, medicines management and administration services, whilst working closely with partners to ensure the smooth running of all other services. You will demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, you will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of a Health and Wellbeing based clinical model of care. The post holder will be qualified as an RGN or RMN, with proven experience of working in the substance misuse field and hold the RCGP Part 1 and Part 2 Certificate in Substance Misuse and a non-medical prescribing (NMP) qualification. The post holder will develop a strong clinical pathway for the Clinical Substance Misuse services and service users and work collaboratively with the primary care and psychosocial recovery service to support service users and ensure that positive rehabilitation, health and wellbeing outcomes are achieved. 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 We’re Kind We’re Fair We Listen We Care For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Yvette Carroll Job title: Head of Healthcare Email address: yvette.carrollnhs.net