Primary Care Clinical Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Primary Care Clinical Lead to drive the delivery and development of high-quality primary care services in our Bristol prison healthcare setting. This role combines clinical leadership, operational management and service improvement to directly improve patient care and outcomes.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, oversee staffing and rotas, and ensure safe, efficient, and responsive services.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for the primary care service within a prison health setting.
• Manage, support, supervise and appraise staff, promoting professional development and high standards of practice; coordinate staffing and rotas to ensure safe service delivery.
• Oversee referral, triage, care coordination and clinical review processes; maintain a small clinical caseload and provide evidence-based care for patients with acute, complex and long-term health needs.
• Lead quality improvement, clinical audit and service evaluation activity; monitor performance, patient safety and standards of care; take action to drive improvements.
• Collaborate with HMPPS, healthcare partners, community providers and other agencies to support integrated care and continuity of treatment.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Primary Care Clinical Lead to lead the delivery and ongoing development of high-quality primary care services within our prison healthcare setting in Bristol. This is an opportunity to combine clinical leadership, operational management and service improvement in a challenging and rewarding environment where your work will directly improve patient care and outcomes. Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, you will provide visible and supportive leadership to nursing, paramedic and wider healthcare colleagues. You will help ensure that services are safe, effective, efficient and responsive to the needs of patients, while maintaining strong working relationships with prison colleagues, partner organisations and community services. Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.Main duties of the job In this role, you will provide clinical and operational leadership for the primary care service. You will manage, support, supervise and appraise staff, promoting professional development and high standards of practice, while coordinating staffing and rotas to support safe, efficient and timely service delivery. You will oversee referral, triage, care coordination and clinical review processes, maintain a small clinical caseload and provide evidence-based care for patients with acute, complex and long-term health needs. You will also lead quality improvement, clinical audit and service evaluation activity, monitor performance, patient safety and standards of care, and take action where improvements are required. Working collaboratively with HMPPS, healthcare partners, community providers and other statutory and voluntary agencies, you will support integrated care and continuity of treatment.

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