Primary Care Clinical Lead | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Bristol

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? 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 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 healthcare 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.

Join us in a stimulating role at HMP Ashfield, where you can truly flourish as a clinical leader. We seek a dynamic and passionate individual to fill the Primary Care Clinical Lead role. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

In this role, you'll be the driving force behind our Primary Care service, steering a team of diverse and talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. You will be the architect of new standards in healthcare within our establishment. From developing to implementing and monitoring unique quality improvement initiatives, clinical protocols, and guidelines, your work will directly enhance patient safety and outcomes.

Your role will extend beyond the walls of HMP Ashfield. You will develop and nurture vital relationships with other healthcare providers, prison staff, and external agencies, promoting an integrated approach to healthcare. Collaborating with the Head of Healthcare, you will have a significant role in strategically planning our healthcare services, aligning with national standards and local needs. Your visionary approach will identify areas for improvement and innovation, allowing you to lead on initiatives that transform service delivery.

The role is more than a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact, leading and shaping Primary Care services in a prison setting. If your passion lies in bridging health disparities and reducing health inequalities for a marginalised and often overlooked population, we invite you to bring your skills, vision, and enthusiasm to this immensely rewarding role at HMP Ashfield.

Key Task and Responsibilities:

• The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service.
• To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders.
• Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues.
• Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.
• Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.
• Provide a range of quality services and intervention.

Management responsibilities:

• To play a lead role in the ongoing development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.
• Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
• Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed.

Leadership:

• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisals.
• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.

Clinical:

• The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatient manager and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
• To manage a clinical caseload.
• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison.

Research:

• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.
• To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

Communication:

• To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.

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.