Primary Care Service Lead

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Health and Justice Services, Children and Young people service line provides delivers high quality integrated and trauma informed service for young people within the youth justice settings

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiasticPrimary Care Service Lead to join our team atHMYOI Feltham. Applications welcomed from Registered Healthcare professionals with Primary care experience such as Adult/Child Nurse, Paramedic or Therapist.By joining the Integrated Health Care Team, you will work within a multidisciplinary service as part of the senior management team ensuring young people and adults residing in Feltham receive age appropriate, high quality care in partnership with the Youth Custody services, HMPS and other agencies and have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health and wellbeing.

Our motto is“Caring NOT Judging”so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

PLEASE NOTE ANY CANDIDATE WISHING TO APPLY WILL BE SUBJECT TO HMPPS VETTING CLEARANCE. WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT IN THE UK FOR A MINIMUM OF 3 YEARS. CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA NEED NOT APPLY.

The post holder will lead the Primary Care provision, to ensure an equitable service to that available in the community. The post holder is responsible for Clinical Leadership in primary care and public health and ensuring that the highest quality age appropriate , evidence-based services are provided.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

• Monthly supervision
• Annual personal development plans/appraisals
• Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.

Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:

• Preceptorship Programme
• Support and guidance with Revalidation
• Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

• Childcare vouchers
• Health and wellbeing services
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Relocation package
• As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

**Specific to job role – detail the duties, responsibilities and key relationships of the job**

• Deputise for the Head of healthcare
• Management and leadership – providing line management and clinical supervision to a team of nurses , paramedics and assistant posts.
• Strategic development of the service as part of the senior management team
• Clinical governance – monitoring, auditing and providing assurance in relation to quality of the service
• Ensure service meets the appropriate standard ( e.g. CYPSS. NICE, NMC, CYPIPS, HJIPS)
• Provide education to healthcare staff, young people and YOI staff
• Co-ordinate healthcare response to infection outbreaks and other public health needs
• Preparing performance , Serious incident and audit reports
• Human resource management ie performance, absence, sickness etc