Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Head of Healthcare and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

• To be responsible for Primary Care rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs
• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisal
• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.
• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training and personal development needs.
• To lead in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.
• 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 training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
• 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, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
• 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 support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions.
• The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service.
• The post holder will participate in all service reviews as required

Dimensions of Post Holder

•  Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations
• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPPS and Senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police and all other statutory and non-statutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management.
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with senior staf

Custodial Responsibilities

•  Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys. 
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
  Comply with all security requirements. 
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate. 
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol. 
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.