Head of Healthcare - HMP Haverigg + £1500 Welcome Payment

Job summary

We are looking for a Head of Healthcare to lead HMP Haverigg, utilising your skills and experience to shape and continuously develop the service.

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if you're looking for a role where you can make a tangible difference, enhance your existing skills and learn something new every day, then this is the place to be.

We aim to be flexible in matching your availability with our work patterns and the needs of the service and therefore we are also able to offer part time and flexible working options.

Please note the welcome payment is payable to new candidates joining Spectrum Community Health CIC.

Main duties of the job

With extensive and credible experience, you will motivate, inspire and professionally lead our healthcare team, working collaboratively with the prison to ensure that patients are at the heart of what we do.

As a CQC registered manager, you will be directly accountable for the provision of high-quality clinical and operational primary healthcare services within HMP Haverigg, ensuring a consistent and co-ordinated approach to the delivery of quality evidence-based practice and care for patients.

You will be accountable for the delivery of the contract, including responsibility for monitoring performance and delivery against KPI's at HMP Haverigg and managing sub-contractors. This includes attendance at relevant Contracts and Performance Meetings or Boards, and other agreed meetings with the Director, Deputy Director and/or Regional Head of Operations.

Working with all key stakeholders and other Heads of Healthcare, you will be in charge of the provision of first-rate patient care and the efficient use of resources, maintaining visibility and accessibility to patients and staff.

As Head of Healthcare, you will provide clinical expertise and leadership across a diverse workforce, ensuring safe staffing and risk management is mitigated, lessons are learned, and patient experiences are maximised.

About us

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.