Primary Care & ISMS Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bristol is seeking an experienced clinician to assume the role of clinical lead within the Primary Care/SMS service. The successful candidate will mentor junior staff, develop quality improvement initiatives, and ensure high standards of patient care. This position demands strong leadership, a background in nursing, and experience in multi-professional collaboration. The role is set within a dynamic healthcare environment where the candidate will impact the lives of patients significantly.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years experience at senior management level.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration.
• Strong leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as clinical lead in Primary Care and ISMS service.
• Provide quality primary care/SMS interventions.
• Develop and implement quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Change management understanding

Knowledge of National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators

Leadership and management capacity

Education

Registered Nurse

Post graduate qualification to Masters level

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

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'll be the driving force behind our Primary Care/SMS 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 mentor and coach the Primary Care/SMS team, provide clinical supervision, and facilitate training.

You will be the architect of improving standards in healthcare within our establishment. From developing to implementing and monitoring unique quality improvement initiatives, clinical protocols, and guidelines, your work to support the teams will directly enhance patient safety and outcomes.

You will develop and nurture vital relationships with your team, prison staff, other healthcare providers, and external agencies, promoting an integrated approach to healthcare. Your insights will be invaluable in multidisciplinary meetings, connecting with community healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care.

Collaborating with the Primary Care/ISMS Manager, 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.

About us

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

The post holder will act as clinical lead in the Primary Care and ISMS service. To provide quality primary care/SMS interventions to offenders Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues. Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service Develop specialist practice‑based clinical models of care Provide a range of quality services and interventions The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

Full JD downloadable in supporting documents

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

Education/Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Post graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience

Experience

• Minimum 2 years experience at senior management level or supervisory role
• Experience of multi‑professional collaboration

Skills

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
• Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
• Strong leadership and management capacity

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.