Primary Care Clinical Lead

Job overview

Are you an experienced senior nurse or advanced clinical practitioner looking for an opportunity to lead and develop high-quality healthcare within a custodial setting?

Working closely with the Head of Healthcare, you will provide expert clinical leadership, support the day-to-day management of services and help ensure that patients receive safe, effective and evidence-based care. You will also contribute to the wider senior leadership team and deputise for the Head of Healthcare when required.

Applicants should be a registered healthcare professional with significant primary care experience, a non-medical prescribing qualification or be working towards one, and hold or be completing a master’s-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

You will lead and coordinate the primary care service, ensuring that care is responsive to the needs of the prison population and integrated with mental health, medicines management, GP, dental and wider healthcare provision.

The role includes providing expert clinical advice, supervision and leadership to multidisciplinary staff; overseeing clinical pathways, referrals and care planning; and supporting the effective management of acute presentations, long-term conditions, health promotion, screening, immunisation and substance misuse treatment.

You will promote strong clinical governance through audit, risk management, incident review, evidence-based practice and service evaluation. You will also support workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, performance management and the effective use of resources.

Working with prison colleagues, commissioners, community services and other partner organisations, you will help ensure continuity of care throughout custody and on release.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As Primary Care Clinical Lead, you will provide visible, professional and compassionate leadership for the primary care service. You will exercise a high level of professional autonomy, making complex clinical decisions while maintaining accountability for the quality and safety of care.

You will undertake advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting with undifferentiated, acute or complex needs. Within your professional scope, you will prescribe and review medication, support the management of long-term conditions and ensure patients receive appropriate health promotion, preventative care and self-management advice.

You will lead the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based clinical pathways, including chronic disease management, acute care, immunisations, screening, detoxification, rehabilitation and harm-reduction interventions. You will ensure that patients with complex needs receive coordinated, individualised and regularly reviewed care plans.

The post holder will provide clinical and managerial supervision, support appraisal and professional development, and promote a culture of reflective learning and continuous improvement. You will monitor performance, maintain high standards of clinical documentation and ensure staff work in accordance with Trust, prison and national policies.

You will contribute to clinical audit, research, quality improvement and service evaluation, using findings to improve patient outcomes and experience. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries and deputise for the Head of Healthcare when required.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the delivery of integrated healthcare in a complex and rewarding environment while supporting improvements in the health and wellbeing of people in prison.

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.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Applicant requirements

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.