We have an exciting opportunity for an Inpatient Clinical Lead to join our Primary Care team at HMP Winchester, a category B Prison located in Winchester, Hampshire.
In this role you will have the opportunity to provide the highest standards of healthcare to our patients, without having to compromise on efficiency and quality.
The working hours for this role is Mon - Fri (37.5 hours per week).
This is a fixed term contract until April 2025.
This position is full time, you'll receive an annual salary up to £52,000 per annum - depending on experience.
How will we support you?
* Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
* Competency framework
* Regional and national career development opportunities
* Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
* Support from the wider team
Candidates are required to have a legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.
Main duties of the job
As an Inpatient Clinical Lead your responsibilities will vary. You will:
* Coach, line manage and develop clinician staff
* Work closely with partners to maintain a high quality clinical service for patients
* Lead and support team with safeguarding
* Support the process of patient concerns
If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.
It doesn't stop there: we also offer:
* Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
* Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
* 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it
About us
The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We're the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.
Practice Plus Group's purpose is to unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:
* We treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
* We act with integrity
* We strive to do things better together
We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.
Qualifications & Experience required
* Registered nurse RGN RMN or Paramedic
* Current professional qualification (NMC or HCPC)
* Experience managing teams
* Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
* A non-judgmental and compassionate approach
Although not essential, ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.
Job responsibilities
As the Inpatients Lead, you will be innovative, bringing fresh ideas and solutions to the challenges of providing healthcare in a prison. You will see patients at the beginning and end of their time in prisons, both are times of transition in the community and require a coordinated approach to continuity of care with other services. The role will involve working closely with external stakeholders to develop pathways that prevent patients having to attend outside hospital including but not exclusively end of life care and acute care. You'll assist with the development of patients' medical plans of care, line manage a team of healthcare practitioners ensuring that they are supported and appraised. Have the ability to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency, working within a team of healthcare practitioners you must be able to prioritize your own workload, caseload and be able to demonstrate the ability to problem solve. You will have an adaptive communication style that enables effective communication with the senior management team, the prison staff and importantly the patients; as well as good communication links with external stakeholders importantly substance misuse and secondary mental health. You must be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills and decision making and ensure practice is evidence based.
As the Inpatients Lead you will contribute to our healthcare strategy and vision to:
* Provide outstanding evidence-based care to our patients, seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback, so that care is personalized and informed by what matters to them.
* Deliver non-judgmental care that makes a real difference, as defined throughout our bespoke Health in Justice Competency framework.
* Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of.
* Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence-based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of shared learning.
* Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, building strong multi-disciplinary teams and supporting each other to do a great job. Encourage a shared learning approach to teaching.
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.
Depending on experience, up to £52,000 per annum.
#J-18808-Ljbffr