Job summary
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 a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to join our team as our Substance Misuse Clinical Lead. You will be joining 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.
Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to lead our SMS team. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, 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: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
As an expert practitioner, you will be a source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, offenders and their carer's.You will assess patients with substance misuse needs, and provide specialist advice and guidance relating to their management, care and onward pathways within the prison and in prepare for release back into community
You will be responsible for the leadership of a nurse-led substance misuse service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. You will lead the provision of care to patients with complex substance misuse problems and in partnership with other disciplines for patients with Dual Diagnosis from the point of entry into the prison system to re-entry into the community.
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're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver quality services based on evidence based practice
- The post holder will have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.
- The post holder will deliver and direct others to provide a range of evidence based clinical interventions for offenders.
- The post holder will be required to take an active role in training and development both within their team and the establishments in general
- The post holder will work closely with the Quality and Standards team to develop audit and evaluation tools and improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of their service
Management responsibilities
- To support the development and delivery of an effective clinical interventions model and be responsible for a small but complex clinical caseload.
- To ensure the service achieves the health and justice performance expectations for substance misuse services.
- As delegated, be responsible for the management & co-ordination of the substance misuse team on a day-to-day basis.
- Ensure clinical interventions are delivered in an effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
- Work with senior colleagues to develop strategies designed to promote and improve health of substance misuse patients, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.
- Work collaboratively with Primary care and Mental health team leaders in daily team management arrangements to maximise resources and targeted need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.
- Support the development of robust systems for the collection, triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate, including monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
- Work with the team to develop effective systems and interfaces with community health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge.
- Monitor staff 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 appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance and procedures.
- Support the selection, recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled staff for the service.
- Liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
Leadership
- To maintain a supervision structure for staff and monitor its effectiveness
- To identify staff training and development needs and facilitate access to relevant courses or projects
- To identify and contribute to the training of health staff regarding the development of quality offender health services
- To promote and facilitate student nurse placements in offender health services
Clinical
- The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, make 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 substance misuse services for the prison. This will include development and implementation of appropriate referral/care pathway for patients identified as having a dual diagnosis.
- To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical leadership to junior staff 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 support the development of monitoring systems, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
- To participate and lead as directed in the managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal, and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
- To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care plans and consistent delivery throughout the prison.
- To promote engagement with the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) dual diagnosis programme with service users.
- The post holder will work collaboratively with the Operational Manager, Clinical Leads, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required. To actively promote offender healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies
Research
- To apply specialist skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence
- To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and recording learning outcomes.
- To ensure own supervision requirements are met through regular supervision with their line manager
- To identify individual training needs with their line manager
- To attend relevant mandatory and professional development meetings to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and shared with colleagues
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).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver quality services based on evidence based practice
- The post holder will have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.
- The post holder will deliver and direct others to provide a range of evidence based clinical interventions for offenders.
- The post holder will be required to take an active role in training and development both within their team and the establishments in general
- The post holder will work closely with the Quality and Standards team to develop audit and evaluation tools and improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of their service
Management responsibilities
- To support the development and delivery of an effective clinical interventions model and be responsible for a small but complex clinical caseload.
- To ensure the service achieves the health and justice performance expectations for substance misuse services.
- As delegated, be responsible for the management & co-ordination of the substance misuse team on a day-to-day basis.
- Ensure clinical interventions are delivered in an effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
- Work with senior colleagues to develop strategies designed to promote and improve health of substance misuse patients, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.
- Work collaboratively with Primary care and Mental health team leaders in daily team management arrangements to maximise resources and targeted need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.
- Support the development of robust systems for the collection, triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate, including monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
- Work with the team to develop effective systems and interfaces with community health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge.
- Monitor staff 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 appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance and procedures.
- Support the selection, recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled staff for the service.
- Liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.
Leadership
- To maintain a supervision structure for staff and monitor its effectiveness
- To identify staff training and development needs and facilitate access to relevant courses or projects
- To identify and contribute to the training of health staff regarding the development of quality offender health services
- To promote and facilitate student nurse placements in offender health services
Clinical
- The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, make 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 substance misuse services for the prison. This will include development and implementation of appropriate referral/care pathway for patients identified as having a dual diagnosis.
- To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical leadership to junior staff 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 support the development of monitoring systems, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
- To participate and lead as directed in the managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal, and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
- To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care plans and consistent delivery throughout the prison.
- To promote engagement with the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) dual diagnosis programme with service users.
- The post holder will work collaboratively with the Operational Manager, Clinical Leads, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required. To actively promote offender healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies
Research
- To apply specialist skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence
- To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and recording learning outcomes.
- To ensure own supervision requirements are met through regular supervision with their line manager
- To identify individual training needs with their line manager
- To attend relevant mandatory and professional development meetings to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and shared with colleagues
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
Essential
- Professional Qualification (Registered Nurse)
- RCGP Part 2 Certificate or equivalent Post Graduate Qualification to Degree level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of substance misuse interventions.
Desirable
- Dual Diagnosis experience qualification or willingness to working towards this qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience at a Senior Nurse / Band 6 level in Primary Care/Substance Misuse services
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of managing staff
Desirable
- Offender Healthcare experience
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, complex and contentious presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences
- Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification (Registered Nurse)
- RCGP Part 2 Certificate or equivalent Post Graduate Qualification to Degree level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of substance misuse interventions.
Desirable
- Dual Diagnosis experience qualification or willingness to working towards this qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience at a Senior Nurse / Band 6 level in Primary Care/Substance Misuse services
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of managing staff
Desirable
- Offender Healthcare experience
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, complex and contentious presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences
- Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
