Primary Care Complex and Specialist Care Lead

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced qualified individual to join the team at HMP Elmley as Primary Care Complex Specialist Care Lead.
As an expert practitioner, leader and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, offenders and their carers, the post-holder will lead an integrated health service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care to the prison. Overseeing and managing a multi-disciplinary team to ensure the integrated healthcare service provide a range of quality services to offenders.
The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
To strategically develop, deliver, clinically audit and evaluate the health services required. This will include referral management, assessment, specialist interventions nurse-led triage, screening, primary & secondary care interventions, health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, key performance indicators, National Health Service Frameworks and social care standards.
To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical leadership with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
To ensure monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
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
Management responsibilities
To be responsible for the development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
To oversee the complex caseload and long term conditions management of patients.
To oversee the QOF registers and implement clinics and clinical care as appropriate.
To develop, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Ensure the clinical policies are fair and equitable and that they support the needs of the Commissioners and offenders and are in line with Trust key performance targets and clinical governance frameworks.
Ensure all clinics, activities and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective & timely way, in line with service needs.
Develop strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.
Maximising resources to target need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.
Development of robust systems for the collection, triage & allocation of referrals.
Monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
The post-holder will delegate as appropriate whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability for performance & results.
To develop and maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison.
Ensuring high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and offender confidentiality in line with prison policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes.
To monitor and review the implementation of appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools for all prisoners/patients that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed trust policies.
To ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision to team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training and personal development needs.
To develop effective systems and interfaces with community health services ensuring continuity of care and through the gate services on release or discharge.
To actively promote joint working across professional and organisational boundaries.
To develop and maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, eg, external NHS services, mental health & forensic services, prison senior management teams and staff, Ministry of Justice, CMHT’s, probation services, CPS, courts, GP’s, third sector and independent providers etc).
Ensure compliance with all prison and trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.
Responsible for the management of all matters relating to discipline, complaints and serious & untoward incidents and investigations as required.
Ensure staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance and procedures.
Responsible for the selection, recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled staff.
To liaise with other senior trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust’s other Directorates as required.

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