Primary Care Clinical Lead | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want toescape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time tobreakinto offender healthcare and develop your career.

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 ourhealthcareteam, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc 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. But that\’s just the beginning, 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.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

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.
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

Management responsibilities
• To play a lead role in the on-going 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.
• Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
• Monitor and audit of the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.

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.
• Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training and personal development needs.
• To lead in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.

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.
• The post holder will ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
• The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
• The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
• The post holder will ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.
• The post holder will support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
• The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.
• The post holder will participate in all service reviews as required.

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.
• The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.

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.
• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPPS/SERCO and Senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police and all other statutory and non-statutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management.
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with senior staff.

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 photographicID

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).

This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr