Primary Care Service Lead - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Please see attached job description and personal specification for full list of role and responsibilities As Primary Care Lead for the service the post holder will: To deliver effective leadership and direction to all staff within the Primary Care Team. To ensure the service is cost effective, well organised, evidence based & service user focussed. To ensure that all targets and performance indicators as agreed with the Head of Healthcare are met, and where they are at risk to communicate with the Regional Operations Manager and Business and Performance Lead as soon as a risk is identified. To be responsible for implementing service changes when required, ensuring effective implementation with measurable outcomes and to agreed timescales. To advance innovative ideas and strategies and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver care more effectively. Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary teams across the wider healthcare service. Provide specialist primary care nursing advice to the GPs and other colleagues in the prison. Lead the realisation of every day practice within a Clinical Governance framework including; setting the developmental agenda and work programme, incident and complaint management. To ensure the effective clinical management of patients in In-patients, Segregation, the wings/houseblocks, and any other area of the prison. Death in custody reviews and action plans, determining standards and measuring/auditing performance against those standards, management of clinical risk, identification of best practice and addressing remedial actions as required. Lead in the development of nursing practice in the area of primary care and chronic disease management. Ensure the clinical environment meets acceptable levels and to monitor cleanliness, safety and infection control. To act, as a suitable role model for your grade of employment. To ensure that all relevant documentation is completed in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council and CNWL Trust policy. To maintain standards of Caldicott and Data Protection Act for patient confidentiality at all times. To represent the prison healthcare service and CNWLs Health & Justice Service at appropriate meetings as and when required. To be compliant with the Modern Matrons Charter To ensure service work within the guidelines set out by the NMC, NICE, CNWL and prison standards To ensure that a professional practice and accountability culture is established and maintained. To ensure services are compliant with the Care Quality Commissions Provider Compliance Assessments for Quality and Safety. To ensure that working conditions and the use of resources satisfies current legislation and establishment guidelines. To implement a culture that focuses on improving outcomes across the care pathway for clients. To work in partnership with the Prison and other healthcare providers to ensure there are clear and responsive operational policies, procedures and protocols. To take actively take part in the ACCT process and other risk management processes. To ensure that service users health needs are met through equity, fairness, respect and entitlement. To line manage the Primary Care Clinical Team leads and other nurses in primary care and ensure each had monthly supervision and an annual appraisal in line with Trust policy. To ensure the entire primary care workforce, including healthcare assistants and administrators, receive monthly supervision and an annual appraisal. To lead on the recruitment, as requested by Head of Healthcare to vacant clinical posts in primary care for Health & Justice Directorate. To ensure all primary care nursing staff maintain their professional registration and personal development by completing mandatory training and pursuit of special interests e.g. phlebotomy, wound management etc. To take the lead on implementing care quality standards. This will include keeping updated with national policy and legislation, attending relevant Trust meetings, policy development and implementation of improvement programmes across the service. To provide cover for the Head of Healthcare as required.