YOU have an exciting opportunity to lead a new service delivering healthcare services to a small group of men within the Immigration estate.

The Swinderby Residential Short-Term Holding Facility will hold up to 39 adult men for a period of up to 5 days.

The service provision will be 7 days a week 24 hours a day although the Service Manager role operates 9-5 Monday to Friday.

You will work in partnership with the Home Office, NHSE/I and contracted providers to achieve high quality outcomes for the service user group. We aim to provide healthcare to those detained that is equivalent to those in the community.

As the Service Manager you will provide Managerial and Clinical leadership to the Integrated Healthcare team to ensure delivery of high-quality care to patients with a range of healthcare needs.

Main duties of the job

Leading a small team, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to our patients, who are often not in receipt of essential healthcare services in the community - for a variety of reasons.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day organisation and smooth running of the Healthcare Service.

As a qualified nurse you have the perfect opportunity to offer a positive nurse led health experience to a group of patients who are usually identified as experiencing poor health outcomes.

Whilst in our care, you will seek to empower patients to become more aware of their own healthcare needs and offer support and treatment interventions as required.

You will work closely with Home Office and Detention Officer colleagues to provide a high standard of safe and patient centred Healthcare Services.

About us

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!#TeamNottsHC

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Offender Health Directorate is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK. The Directorate provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire.

The Directorate provides healthcare to 8 prisons and one Residential Short-Term Holding Facility. You are part of a large peer group of 400+ healthcare professionals with access to peer support, supervision and excellent opportunities for learning and development. We also offer services within the Personality Disorder Pathway, including Therapeutic Communities (within prisons), Community and Prison Personality Disorder services and specialist Veteran Services.

We are committed to working in partnership with the Home Office, Prison Service, National Probation Service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide leadership to the healthcare team, empowering the team to perform with high levels of motivation and commitment

To deliver a comprehensive integrated health service, ensuring assessment and planning appropriate courses of action including the use of different treatment approaches or referral to other agencies

To develop, initiate and implement pro-active care pathways

To ensure a coordinated approach working alongside patients, colleagues, and partners

To provide consultation and advice across healthcare and seek out specialist support from the relevant care pathways relevant to the needs of individual patients

To be actively involved in health promotion in the context of strategic planning, delivery of health promotion packages in partnership with other colleagues internal and external to Trust and in response to differing health care needs

Be responsible for medicines management within the healthcare team in line with Trust requirements and work closely with prescribers and pharmacists

To prepare and present Quality Schedule (QS) and Health and Justice Indicators of Performance (HJIP) data

To prepare reports and contribute to Contract Review Meetings with NHSE/I/Home Office

To develop processes and monitor patients in relation to Rule 32 of the Short-Term Holding Facility Rules

To be responsible for the promotion of best practice that ensure the health, safety and security of self, patients and colleagues in accordance with local policies and procedures

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN/RMN First Level Registration
• Masters Level or willingness to work towards this

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading a team
• Extensive experience of managing in-patient/prison services
• A sound, working knowledge of risk management and safeguarding procedures

Desirable

• Experience of developing services
• Experience of working with offenders/criminal justice system/Immigration

Knowledge

Essential

• Healthcare knowledge relevant to Professional Qualification
• Knowledge of therapeutic approaches used in secure environments
• Knowledge of Risk Assessment/Care Planning

Desirable

• Indepndent non-medical prescriber

Skills

Essential

• Leadership skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team as a senior member and represent nursing perspective in a variety of settings
• Commitment to clinical and managerial supervision

Desirable

• Presentation skills

Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Morton Hall

Swinderby

Lincoln

LN6 9PT



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