Primary Care Clinical Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in the UK seeks a dynamic Primary Care Clinical Lead to enhance healthcare delivery within a prison setting. This role involves steering a talented team, implementing innovative healthcare protocols, and collaborating with various stakeholders to improve patient care. If you are passionate about reducing health inequalities and committed to delivering high standards of care, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Integrated healthcare team environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in clinical leadership within healthcare settings.
• Strong background in developing healthcare protocols and guidelines.
• Commitment to reducing health disparities.

Responsibilities

• Steer the Primary Care service and lead a diverse healthcare team.
• Implement clinical protocols and quality improvement initiatives.
• Promote collaborative relationships with healthcare providers and prison staff.

Skills

Leadership in healthcare delivery

Clinical insight

Collaboration with healthcare providers

Ability to implement quality improvements

Education

Relevant clinical qualifications

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into 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 our healthcare team, 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 Erlestoke, 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, & a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Responsibilities

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. 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 Erlestoke. 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 Erlestoke.

About Oxleas and the Service

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