Substance Misuse Clinical Lead | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2024 |
| Location: | Devizes, SN10 5TU |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6610385/277-6610385-ERLE |
Summary
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Oxleas NHS Foudation Trust were awarded the South West Prisons contract in 2022. We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivatedSubstance Misuse Clinical Lead (ACP)to join our friendly team atHMP Erlestoke
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 patients future resettlement back into the community. Wedirectly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery modelto provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our substance misuse team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
As a senior practitioner, leader and source of expert advice to clinicians, patients, and their carers, you will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence.
You will manage a multi-disciplinary team, the Clinical Substance Misuse team, and support primary care, medicines management and administration services, whilst working closely with partners to ensure the smooth running of all other services.
You will demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, you will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of a Health and Wellbeing based clinical model of care.
The post holder will be qualified as an RGN or RMN, with proven experience of working in the substance misuse field and hold the RCGP Part 1 and Part 2 Certificate in Substance Misuse and a non-medical prescribing (NMP) qualification. The post holder will develop a strong clinical pathway for the Clinical Substance Misuse services and service users and work collaboratively with the primary care and psychosocial recovery service to support service users and ensure that positive rehabilitation, health and wellbeing outcomes are achieved.
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
• The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision-making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
• To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership of the substance misuse team and in the absence of the Head of Healthcare, oversight of acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, and National Service Frameworks.
• To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the substance misuse team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality, trauma-informed, and outcome-driven services on a day-to-day basis.
• To ensure monitoring systems are in place to promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programs for the substance misuse team and deputise for the Head of Healthcare to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To implement effective and appropriate patient-centred care planning tools as part of a trauma-informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
• The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team, deputising for the Head of Healthcare and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.
• The post holder will ensure a named care coordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions including health promotion/prevention activity and management of acute and long-term conditions.
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 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).
This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024
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