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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 mental health and 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 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 mental health and substance misuse 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 mental health and substance misuse team and the 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 / Care Programme Approach (CPA), 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, 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 be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

· The post holder will be required to undertake ongoing training to continually improve mental health and substance misuse provision.

· The post holder will ensure a named care co-ordinator 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.

· The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.

· The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.

· The post holder will ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment.

· The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.

· The post holder will support teams to patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.

· The post holder will ensure that health promotion isembedded into every aspect of the service.

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).