Primary Care Lead

Our Kent Prisons healthcare services are underpinned using our ‘health and wellbeing’ model. It has evolved over the past 5 years, where it was originally implemented at the Greenwich cluster. HMP Belmarsh in 2017 which was a first for NHSE (London Region) and a model which other services built on, for us followed by HMP Isis 2018 and HMP Wandsworth 2019.

There are core principles, however, how these are achieved are bespoke to the local healthcare and prison team during the model implementation:

- Patient focused with health promotion at the heart of our care
- Designing services which meet the unique needs of the prison
- The right staff, right place, right time ensuring experienced professionals are on hand to lead and support patients when needed
- A no exclusions model that ensures everyone with mental health needs is managed within the step care model
- Being highly supportive of clinical and prison staff with training, support enabling the team to work smarter and as part of an effective multi-disciplinary team

The six prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes’ walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

As an expert practitioner and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, offenders and their carers, provide specialist nurse interventions to patients and support to junior colleagues. Assist & support the Operational Manager to lead a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

To ensure the Integrated Healthcare Service provide a range of quality services to offenders.

Oxleas - About Us

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. We are 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

To support the development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.

To manage a specialised & complex clinical caseload.

To support the Operational Manager to maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.

As delegated be responsible for the management & co-ordination of the Integrated Healthcare Service Team on a day-to-day basis in the absence of the Operational Manager.

Ensure long term conditions clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.

Work with senior colleagues to develop strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required

As delegated, maximise resources to target need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.

Support the development of robust systems for the collection, triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate, and monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.

To monitor and maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patients care pathway whilst detained in prison/ forensic services.

Monitor staff performance high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and patient /offender confidentiality in line prison/ forensic unit policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes

To carry out clinical supervision to team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training and personal development needs as directed.

Work with the Operational Manager to develop effective systems and interfaces with commu