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Job summary

Main area
Head of Healthcare
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
847-CM-24-V346
Employer
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Employer type
Public (Non NHS)
Site
HMP Styal
Town
Wilmslow
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/08/2024 23:59

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Head of Healthcare - HMP Styal + £1500 Welcome Payment

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

Do you want to join and lead an established multidisciplinary team, embedding a culture of high performance, continuous progression, and innovation?  This is an amazing opportunity to lead a truly integrated team who will deliver outstanding patient care to the women. 

We are recruiting for a highly motivated, innovative, and enthusiastic clinician to lead our healthcare team at HMP Styal as the Head of Healthcare. Situated in Wilmslow, Manchester, HMP Styal is a closed category prison for female adults and young offenders.

At HMP Styal we are proud to deliver an integrated model of healthcare with a full range of primary care, sexual health and screening services, and substance misuse services. This is done through safe, optimal and integrated health and wellbeing services that deliver best outcomes for the individual, their families and communities. 

If you’re in search of a position that allows you to enhance your managerial and nursing skills and gain new knowledge daily within a dynamic setting, this might just be the perfect role for you.

This role also has an attractive relocation payment of up to £8000. For further details on this policy, please enquire. 

Main duties of the job

You will be the registered CQC Manager and be responsible for supporting and ensuring compliance with CQC standards and regulations using continuous improvement methodologies, working alongside colleagues from the Quality department.

You will be responsible for the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services provided throughout the prison, including primary care nursing clinics, GP clinics, and substance misuse services. You will be responsible for the management and monitoring of all service level agreements (dental services, physiotherapy, podiatry) ensuring performance-monitoring standards are adhered to and the highest standards of care are maintained. This role within the prison is a senior role with responsibility as lead for delivery of service outcomes at a local level.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us and as such we offer flexibility in the workplace to support balance in your working life. We welcome informal site visits prior to interview.

This position is a perfect match for someone who is passionate about upholding and advancing exceptional standards of care and service and possesses the capability to motivate and elevate the team through robust clinical supervision and continuous professional growth.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the advertised role, please refer to the attached job description/person specification and applicant recruitment pack. 

Person specification

Education and Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered Healthcare Professional with current appropriate registration e.g., Nurse with NMC membership.
  • Masters or equivalent in relevant subject area or equivalent level of experience
  • Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continued professional development at post graduate level, including delivery of evidence-based care
Desirable criteria
  • RCGP Level 1 and 2 in alcohol or substance misuse
  • Prescribing qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive and significant, demonstrable successful experience at a senior level in a management operational role within a healthcare environment, working in a complex environment with multi health professionals
  • Knowledge of the effective application of the Health & Social Care Act 2014 and relevant legislation
  • Knowledge and understanding in relation to the government’s offender health agenda
  • Experience and knowledge of effective changes to practice to support regulatory compliance e.g., CQC, Regulation 28 etc
  • Experience of leading teams in a complex environment to implement organisational change and deliver a successful outcome
  • Experience of effectively managing a service working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of working with vulnerable groups and understand the complexity that they present
  • Experience of identifying and implementation of quality initiatives
  • Experience of managing and maintaining effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience of leading clinical governance e.g. Infection Prevention & Control, Risk Management etc
  • Understanding and application of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of conducting and supporting research
  • Experience of working with Commissioners
  • Experience of managing offender care or secure units.
  • Experience of working in substance misuse services
  • Experience of primary care, long term conditions management and minor illnesses
  • Coroner’s Court experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent leadership skills.
  • Skilled at leading a team to drive effective and safe delivery of care
  • Understanding an application of effective workforce planning
  • Ability to analyse complex information
  • Well-developed and effective communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence with accountability
  • Working knowledge of clinical information systems e.g. SystmOne
  • Effective skills in consultation, negotiation, influencing and motivating people
  • Ability to manage conflict sensitively and effectively.
  • Ability to lead effectively with demonstrable motivational and performance skills
  • Effective delegation skills
  • Ability to write clear and concise written information e.g., reports, protocols etc. and present complex information
  • Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Meets the requirements of being the CQC registered manager
Desirable criteria
  • Research skills
  • IT Skills
  • Experience of utilising quality improvement methodologies to develop services
  • Understands Primary Care and LTC management

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Michelle Moore
Job title
Secretary to Director of Operations
Email address
[email protected]
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