Mental Health and Substance Misuse ACP

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health and Substance Misuse ACP to join our friendly team at HMP Leyhill
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 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.
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.
As a senior practitioner, leader, and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, patients and their carers, the post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence.
To be accountable and manage a multi-disciplinary team that includes leading the Mental Health and Clinical Substance Misuse team and supporting primary care, medicines management and administration services, and work closely with partners to ensure the smooth running of all other services (GP services, optometry, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry, sexual health, recovery & IAPT services to the establishment).
The post holder will demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, the post holder will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of a Health and Wellbeing based clinical model of care.
The post holder will develop a strong clinical pathway for the Mental Health and Clinical Substance Misuse services and service users and work collaboratively with the primary care and psychosocial recovery service to support service users and ensure that positive rehabilitation, health and wellbeing outcomes are achieved.
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

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

• To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership of the mental health and substance misuse team and in the absence of the Head of Healthcare oversight of acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the mental health and substance misuse team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis.
• To ensure monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the mental health and substance misuse team and the deputise for the Head of Healthcare to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To implement effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA), and a trauma informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
• The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team, deputising for the Head of Healthcare and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.
• 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 ongoing training to continually improve mental health and substance misuse provision.
• 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 including, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions.
• 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 teams to patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
• The post holder will ensure that health promotion isembedded into every aspect of the service.

• To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership of the mental health and substance misuse team and in the absence of the Head of Healthcare oversight of acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the mental health and substance misuse team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis.
• To ensure monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the mental health and substance misuse team and the deputise for the Head of Healthcare to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To implement effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA), and a trauma informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
• The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team, deputising for the Head of Healthcare and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.
• 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 ongoing training to continually improve mental health and substance misuse provision.
• 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 including, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions.
• 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 teams to patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
• The post holder will ensure that health promotion isembedded into every aspect of the service