Job description

Job 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 soughtfrom: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).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional, with current professional registration.
• Master's-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or currently working towards completion
• Non-Medical Prescribing qualification, or currently working towards completion
• Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience within primary care and/or clinical substance misuse services
• At least three years' management experience within a multidisciplinary healthcare environment
• Experience of service development, change management, clinical audit and quality improvement

Desirable

• Experience of delivering care within a prison, secure or similarly complex healthcare setting

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Strong clinical leadership and management skills, with the ability to work autonomously and make complex decisions
• Advanced assessment, diagnostic and clinical decision-making skills within professional scope of practice
• Good understanding of clinical governance, risk management, safeguarding, patient safety and evidence-based practice

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Guys Marsh

Shaftesbury

SP7 0AH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)