Substance Misuse Clinical Lead Position

4 weeks ago


Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate and knowledgeable Substance Misuse Clinical Lead to join our team at HMP Erlestoke. As a senior practitioner, leader, and source of expert advice, you will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence.

Main Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including leadership of the substance misuse team and oversight of acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, and National Service Frameworks.
  • Establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the substance misuse team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality, trauma-informed, and outcome-driven services on a day-to-day basis.
  • Ensure monitoring systems are in place to promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
  • Be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programs for the substance misuse team and 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.
  • Implement effective and appropriate patient-centred care planning tools as part of a trauma-informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
  • 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.
  • Ensure a named care coordinator 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.

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 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

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


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