Peripatetic Head of Healthcare - North West
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Secure environments are one of the most challenging yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. We have a brand new opportunity for a highly motivated, innovative, and enthusiastic individual to be our Peripatetic Head of Healthcare across our Northwest Prison sites.
In the event of any absence from a Head of Healthcare across the Northwest region for Spectrum CIC, this postholder would lead that service, being responsible for providing the day to day clinical and operational management of our diverse healthcare teams. Outside of this role, the postholder will support our teams with business development work, undertaking project/programme and transformation work, coaching and mentoring of staff and enhanced support to other services.
If you’re in search of a position that gives you a rich and diverse workload, allows you to flex your skills, enhance your managerial and nursing skills and gain new knowledge daily within a dynamic setting, this might just be the perfect role for you.
Main duties of the job
You will be accountable for the delivery of contracts including responsibility for monitoring performance and delivery against key performance indicators.
This position is a perfect match for someone who is passionate about upholding and advancing exceptional standards of care and service and possesses the capability to motivate and elevate a range of teams through robust support, clinical supervision and continuous professional growth.
Working for our organisation
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!
* Access to NHS Pension
* Annual leave on your Birthday
* Refer a friend scheme
* Training and Development opportunities
* Flexible Working
* Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
* Up to 33 days annual leave
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding the advertised role, please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education and Training
* Registered Health care Professional with current appropriate registration e.g., Nurse with NMC membership.
* Degree or equivalent in relevant subject area or equivalent level of experience
* Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experience
* Evidence of continued professional development at post graduate level, including delivery of evidence-based care
* RCGP Level 1 and 2 in alcohol or substance misuse
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience at a senior level in a management operational role within a healthcare environment, working in a complex environment with multi health professionals
* Knowledge of the effective application of the Health & Social Care Act 2014 and relevant legislation
* Knowledge and understanding in relation to the government’s offender health agenda
* Experience and knowledge of effective changes to practice to support regulatory compliance e.g., CQC, Regulation 28 etc
* Experience of leading teams in a complex environment to implement organisational change and deliver a successful outcome
* Experience of effectively managing a service working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams
* Experience of working with vulnerable groups and understand the complexity that they present
* Experience of identifying and implementation of quality initiatives
* Experience of managing and maintaining effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
* Experience of leading clinical governance e.g. Infection Prevention & Control, Risk Management etc
* Understanding and application of confidentiality
* Experience of conducting and supporting research
* Experience of working with Commissioners
* Experience of managing offender care or secure units.
* Experience of working in substance misuse services
* Experience of primary care, long term conditions management and minor illnesses
* Experience of transformation in complex environments
Other requirements
* Must be able to travel independently across sites
* Flexible in terms of patterns and places of work
* Ability to obtain vetting clearance in order to work in a prison
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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