Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Pattern)
- Job ref
- 277-7170462-SWALE
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Swaleside
- Town
- Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
- Salary
- £48,148 - £54,809 pa inc, RRP inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Primary Care Lead
Band 7
Job overview
Join Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, an award winning employer recognised for its excellent staff experience and wellbeing. We are seeking a Primary Care Lead to provide expert clinical leadership and support the Operational Primary Care Manager in delivering a nurse-led integrated primary care service at our prison sites.
This role involves working closely with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons and occasionally providing cross-cover.
If you are passionate about making a difference and meet the qualifications, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide expert clinical leadership and support to junior staff.
- Develop, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Primary Healthcare Service.
- Ensure the implementation of effective patient-centered care planning tools.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet and review service needs.
- Undertake training to maximize uptake of NHS screening, health promotion, and prevention activities
Management & Leadership Responsibilities:
- Support the development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
- Manage a specialized and complex clinical caseload.
- Maintain National Standards for Health Care in Prisons.
- Develop strategies to promote and improve health and prevent disease.
- Monitor staff performance and compliance with clinical policies and procedures
*please see full job description and person specification in the attachments below
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
Sponsorship is not available for this post.
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).
Person specification
Education/Qulification
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse, Paramedic, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician)
- Post Graduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of primary care interventions, long-term disease management, vaccination etc.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience at a Senior Nurse level (Band 6)
- Experience of working within prison setting
- Experience of managing staff
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a Senior level including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, 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.
- Ability to maintain a high profile within senior management structures.
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Denny
- Job title
- Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07504877653
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