Early Days in Custody Clinical Lead

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

An independent healthcare provider in the UK seeks an Early Days in Custody Clinical Lead to manage a healthcare team at HMP Brixton. Applicants should be NMC Registered Nurses with leadership skills, particularly in working with substance misuse patients. The role involves overseeing patient assessments, ensuring compliance with health standards, and fostering team development. This full-time position offers a salary up to £63,119 per annum, dependent on experience, and includes various career development opportunities.

Benefits

Bespoke training programs

Career development opportunities

Employee assistance helpline

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a valid NMC license.
• Experience working with substance misuse patients is preferred.
• Knowledge of multi-disciplinary team dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver healthcare in a prison setting.
• Manage patient assessments within the first 10 days of their arrival.
• Ensure adherence to clinical governance and health standards.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Team management

Understanding of clinical governance

Education

NMC Registered Nurse – Adult

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Days in Custody Clinical Lead to join Primary Care at HMP Brixton, a Category C prison located in the London Borough of Lambeth, in inner‑South London.

Hours

Monday to Friday – 08:00‑16:00 or 09:00‑17:00

Salary

Full time – up to £55,086 per annum, depending on experience. Depending on experience up to £63,119 per annum.

How we support you

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates must have legal right to work in the UK and, due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

Main duties of the job

As an Early Days in Custody Clinical Lead, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead a team of healthcare practitioners, including specialists, to deliver an effective, safe medical service within the prison.
• Ensure patients have medical plans of care, assessing patients and carrying out relevant clinical investigations during their arrival, along with arranging follow‑up appointments and providing advice.
• Clinically evaluate and if required facilitate the safe transfer of patients to acute hospitals, ensuring plans of care are understood by patients and the prison as appropriate.
• Provide healthcare onsite in the healthcare unit and across the prison, including some emergency care such as suturing, emergency response, dressings and primary care functions.

Career development opportunities

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when needed

About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We are the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Core values

• We treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated.
• We act with integrity.
• We embrace diversity.
• We strive to do things better together.

We are looking for caring, compassionate, and driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Requirements

• NMC Registered Nurse – Adult
• Experience of working with substance misuse patients
• Understanding of the complexities of multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency working
• Understanding of clinical governance, health and safety, QOF, EBP and national standards
• Understanding of audit and Datix
• Experience in a hospital, community or prison environment (ideal but not essential)

Job responsibilities

This role will lead our Early Days in Custody Team, ensuring patients arriving into the site access services and receive assessments in a timely way. You will manage a multi‑disciplinary team comprising of registered and non‑registered professionals, including mental health, primary care and substance misuse practitioners. The team will manage the care of all patients within their first 10 days, ensuring integrated and coordinated assessment prior to being handed over to colleagues in the Planned Care Team.

You will provide visible leadership, be accountable for the quality and assurance agenda, continually review care and identify areas of learning with your team. Working with other clinical leads, you will ensure all team members from Early Days, Planned Care and Unplanned Care teams are well supported through regular clinical and management supervision. As part of the service leadership team you will be expected to introduce and embed new ways of working through innovation and respond to new service requirements, continually enhancing care provided to our patients.

Additionally you will:

• Provide outstanding evidence‑based care by seeking out, listening to and acting on feedback.
• Deliver non‑judgemental care that is safe, high quality and patient centred whilst meeting CQC requirements, following policies and procedures and always considering safeguarding.
• Inspire excellence in colleagues by proactively leading the service and motivating the team, recognising our workforce as our most valuable asset.
• Forge strong links with partners and stakeholders, providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within and feel proud of.
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence‑based care and continuous quality improvement, embedding a culture of reflection and shared learning.
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, supporting clinical and non‑clinical colleagues to do a great job.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Practice Plus Group

Address

Jebb Ave, Brixton, London, Greater London, SW2 5XF

Employer's website

https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/