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 Foundation Trust were awarded the South West Prisons contract in 2022. We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our friendly team at HMP Guys Marsh.
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 primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including 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.
Main duties of the job
As a senior practitioner, leader, and source of expert advice to clinicians, patients, and their carers, the post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of the primary care team.
The post holder will provide quality primary care interventions to patients, demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others, and plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, the post holder will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
The post holder will be qualified as an RGN, with proven experience of working in a primary care setting and significant experience in managing long-term conditions, QOF, and Section 7a indicators. The post holder must also hold either an ACP or NMP qualification.
Job responsibilities
* The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, plan to reach complex and critical judgments, and have decision-making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
* To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This includes leadership of the Primary Care team, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities, aligning with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, and National Service Frameworks.
* To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the Primary Care team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to ensure quality, trauma-informed, and outcome-driven services on a day-to-day basis.
* To ensure monitoring systems are in place, promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field, and promote research as appropriate.
* To be responsible for the development of and participation in a managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the Primary Care team, ensuring all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal.
* To implement effective and appropriate patient-centred care planning tools and a trauma-informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
* The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team, collaborating with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.
* The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, managing a single referral pathway.
* The post holder will be required to undertake ongoing training to continually improve the Primary Care provision.
* The post holder will ensure a named care coordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs, ensuring a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions.
* The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated care plan is developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
* The post holder will ensure comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
* The post holder will ensure care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs are tailored to the needs of the establishment.
* The post holder will support teams to help patients manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long-term conditions.
* The post holder will ensure that health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered RGN
* Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
* Evidence or experience of Leadership/Management qualification
* Post graduate ACP qualification at degree level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
* Middle management experience in a MDT delivering primary care services
* Experience of managing staff
* Experience of service development, implementation, and change management
* Evidence of working as a nurse prescriber
Desirable
* Prison/Secure environment experience
Skills
Essential
* Knowledge/experience of models of care for Primary Care within secure environments
* Knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison healthcare
* Management and team development techniques
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Guys Marsh
Shaftesbury
SP7 0AH
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