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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Development of a high-quality health service
• Ensuring that appropriate systems are in place, which enable and facilitate positive practice such as assessment, screening, nurse-led triage, a range of low and high intensity interventions and robust CPA processes, continuity of care
• Supervision of junior staff undertaking highly complex clinical interventions
• To represent Oxleas prison healthcare services and be an active member of Directorate and other Trust forums as required.
• To actively promote and chair a range of integrated forums, such as case conferences, multi disciplinary forums and professional meetings as necessary.
• To actively contribute to the strategic direction and planning of offender health services.
• To offer professional advice related to service developments.
• To effectively provide leadership, management and support to healthcare staff
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budgets as required.
• To ensure that the service provides clinically effective interventions which are guided by national and local standards and based on clinical evidence
• To ensure that clinical interventions are effective in reducing the length of stay IPD and external transfers.
• To take a lead role in developing and fostering close interfaces with all prison departments and locations, such as Segregation, Reception & First Night centres, Education, ordinary location etc.
• To lead on the planning and implementation of policies and procedures within the Service.
• To ensure that all clinical activity and interventions and responsibilities relating to care & practice are undertaken in a timely and appropriate manner.
• To be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of co-ordinating complex prisoners.
• To ensure that staff develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge regarding their role, experience and interventions.
• To ensure staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development reviews and have access to the necessary training.
• To actively promote offender healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
• The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
• 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 ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery
• 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

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING:

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).