Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to join our team as our Advanced Clinical Practitioner. You will be joining our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. 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 patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to lead our primary care team. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging. As a Senior Practitioner, leader, and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, patients and their carers, the post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of the primary care team.

The post holder will provide quality primary care interventions to patients, will demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, the post holder will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of specialist practice-based clinical model of 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 Primary Care team, including long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the Primary Care team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro‑active 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 programme for the Primary Care team 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 and 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 and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.

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We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, it's essential to personalise this information, particularly your supporting information section. While AI can help streamline the writing process, these tools cannot fully grasp the context or requirements of the job you're applying for. There is also a risk that it can generate false or misleading information. AI-generated job applications can often be generic, impersonal and may not accurately reflect your qualifications, knowledge, skills, and experiences. It is crucial that you personalise your supporting statement by articulating these in your unique voice. Relying solely on AI to write your application or supporting information section is not advocated by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and could negatively impact your chances of success in the application process. We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.

The post holder will be a qualified RGN, with proven experience of working in a primary care setting and significant experience in managing long term conditions, QOF and Section 7a indicators. The post holder must also hold either an ACP or NMP qualification.

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.

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

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