Head of Healthcare – HMP Bristol
We are currently recruiting for a Head of Healthcare at HMP Bristol. This is an exciting opportunity to blend your clinical knowledge, leadership skills and commitment to delivering high standards of care in an extremely rewarding environment.
You will be responsible for the leadership and operational management of the healthcare service at HMP Bristol. You will work closely with the Regional Manager, peer Headh of Healthcare, HMP Bristol Healthcare teams, sub‑contractors, and HMPPS colleagues, and you will regularly liaise with key stakeholders including commissioners, prison governors and the Independent Monitoring Board.
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.
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 well‑being and support better outcomes in the future.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
**Main duties of the job** Within this role, you will oversee and manage a multi‑disciplinary team that includes but is not limited to primary care, substance misuse services, mental health, psychology, psychiatry, administration & GP services. You will support the leadership team within HMP Bristol to provide safe, effective, high quality care; leading and encouraging effective partnership and multidisciplinary working to provide responsive and patient‑centred care.
You will ensure that effective clinical governance is in place, including organising and chairing local Quality Management and HMPPS Local Delivery and Quality Boards meetings, and participating in regional management meetings, contract monitoring activity and financial reviews.
You will be responsible for liaising with data analyst and quality management colleagues to ensure that all relevant reporting requirements are fulfilled.
You will be required to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement an innovative practice over a 24/7 healthcare service.
Oxleas – Provider Values
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.
Oxleas is 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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