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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.

IMORITANT 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 sought from: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).