Head Of Healthcare
G4S
The closing date is 31 January 2025
Job summary
Head of Healthcare
Salary: £56,000 - £62,000 per annum
Working Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8am - 4:30pm (negotiable)
Location: Oakhill Secure Training Centre, MK5 6AJ
Insight from our team working at Oakhill;
Working at Oakhill no day is the same. It is a very interesting environment and not a lot of people are aware that G4S supplies Healthcare provisions such as ours.
Working with the young people here is rewarding; you get to be a part of their journey through adolescence. You have the benefit of always learning a lot of clinical and people skills working with MDT built of diverse nurses from many different backgrounds, fields and life experiences.
There is the option for existing employees to apply for this role in a secondment capacity.
Main duties of the job
- Provide operational management and leadership to the prison clinical teams and visiting professionals.
- Provide coordination and oversight of multi-agency partnerships and work effectively with other prisons and secondary care providers across the region.
- Manage and contribute to the development of healthcare services within the prison to establish an equivalence of care to that of the NHS, operating within prison service standards Prison Service Instructions, National Service Frameworks & NICE guidance.
- Link and contribute to the strategic planning & development for Offender Health and contribute to the development of G4S healthcare services.
- Ensure effective and constructive working relationships and exercise accountability to both G4S and the Governing Governor.
- Establish and facilitate links with appropriate providers of educational and training programmes assisting in the development of learning placements.
- Provide cross cluster prison healthcare management support in the absence of peers and deputise for the Associate Director when required.
- Contribute to providing senior management support and advice to the Offender Health out of hours via a formal on-call system.
- Producing informative and detailed reports and presentations that represent the complexity of the environment and situations and include proactive corrective action planning, working to tight deadlines.
- Developing new systems, roles and models and pathways of care delivery.
About us
About us:
G4S Health Services has been one of the leading providers to all justice health environments since 2005. We provide primary care and forensic healthcare to a wide range of patients. We are seeking to appoint an experienced Healthcare manager, who will be accountable for the operational delivery of prison healthcare services.
Oakhill Secure Training Centre is an 80 bedded secure establishment that holds sentenced and remanded males and females from 12-17 years old.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Whats involved:
- Provide operational management and leadership to the prison clinical teams and visiting professionals.
- Provide coordination and oversight of multi-agency partnerships and work effectively with other prisons and secondary care providers across the region.
- Manage and contribute to the development of healthcare services within the prison to establish an equivalence of care to that of the NHS, operating within prison service standards Prison Service Instructions, National Service Frameworks & NICE guidance.
- Link and contribute to the strategic planning & development for Offender Health and contribute to the development of G4S healthcare services.
- Ensure effective and constructive working relationships and exercise accountability to both G4S and the Governing Governor.
- Establish and facilitate links with appropriate providers of educational and training programmes assisting in the development of learning placements.
- Provide cross cluster prison healthcare management support in the absence of peers and deputise for the Associate Director when required.
- Contribute to providing senior management support and advice to the Offender Health out of hours via a formal on-call system.
- Producing informative and detailed reports and presentations that represent the complexity of the environment and situations and include proactive corrective action planning, working to tight deadlines.
- Developing new systems, roles and models and pathways of care delivery.
- Undertake clinical audit of nursing practice in line with agreed audit schedules.
- Contribute to both CQC and NOMS joint inspections.
- Contribute to continuously improving the patient experience through effective patient engagement and quality initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Whats involved:
- Provide operational management and leadership to the prison clinical teams and visiting professionals.
- Provide coordination and oversight of multi-agency partnerships and work effectively with other prisons and secondary care providers across the region.
- Manage and contribute to the development of healthcare services within the prison to establish an equivalence of care to that of the NHS, operating within prison service standards Prison Service Instructions, National Service Frameworks & NICE guidance.
- Link and contribute to the strategic planning & development for Offender Health and contribute to the development of G4S healthcare services.
- Ensure effective and constructive working relationships and exercise accountability to both G4S and the Governing Governor.
- Establish and facilitate links with appropriate providers of educational and training programmes assisting in the development of learning placements.
- Provide cross cluster prison healthcare management support in the absence of peers and deputise for the Associate Director when required.
- Contribute to providing senior management support and advice to the Offender Health out of hours via a formal on-call system.
- Producing informative and detailed reports and presentations that represent the complexity of the environment and situations and include proactive corrective action planning, working to tight deadlines.
- Developing new systems, roles and models and pathways of care delivery.
- Undertake clinical audit of nursing practice in line with agreed audit schedules.
- Contribute to both CQC and NOMS joint inspections.
- Contribute to continuously improving the patient experience through effective patient engagement and quality initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential:
- RGN/RMN or equivalent healthcare qualification.
- Appropriate equivalent management experience within a clinical and complex environments.
- Senior leadership experience and ability to operate within a complex delivery environment.
- Knowledge of current issues within healthcare and new models of care within primary care and substance misuse.
- Knowledge of and experience of delivering services within the required regulatory frameworks.
- Evidence of service improvement capability and change management.
- Knowledge of supervisory frameworks and skilled in providing supervision to senior nursing staff.
- Knowledge and understanding of performance and quality frameworks and SI Frameworks and Death in Custody processes.
- High level of IT literacy, Excel and Performance reporting skills.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Full driving license.
Desirable
- Desirable:
- Educated to degree level.
- Leadership qualification.
- Service mapping and process redesign.
- Understanding of National prison initiatives and innovations relevant to the development of prison healthcare services.
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- Benefits:
- While working for G4S, you are entitled to a number of benefits and offers from G4S partners and other organisations, from employee assistance provided through WeCare, to RAC cover and so much more, including the below;
- Progression, training and development catered to you.
- Charity work- Match-IT and Payroll Giving
- Refer A Friend incentives
- Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
- G4S Life Assurance Scheme.
- Subsidised healthcare plan.
- Confidential Counselling Services
- 24/7 support specialising in health and medical
- Discounts on high street shops and brands including several leading high street brands, retailers and travel suppliers.
- Free meals provided on site
- Free Parking onsite
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential:
- RGN/RMN or equivalent healthcare qualification.
- Appropriate equivalent management experience within a clinical and complex environments.
- Senior leadership experience and ability to operate within a complex delivery environment.
- Knowledge of current issues within healthcare and new models of care within primary care and substance misuse.
- Knowledge of and experience of delivering services within the required regulatory frameworks.
- Evidence of service improvement capability and change management.
- Knowledge of supervisory frameworks and skilled in providing supervision to senior nursing staff.
- Knowledge and understanding of performance and quality frameworks and SI Frameworks and Death in Custody processes.
- High level of IT literacy, Excel and Performance reporting skills.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Full driving license.
Desirable
- Desirable:
- Educated to degree level.
- Leadership qualification.
- Service mapping and process redesign.
- Understanding of National prison initiatives and innovations relevant to the development of prison healthcare services.
-
- Benefits:
- While working for G4S, you are entitled to a number of benefits and offers from G4S partners and other organisations, from employee assistance provided through WeCare, to RAC cover and so much more, including the below;
- Progression, training and development catered to you.
- Charity work- Match-IT and Payroll Giving
- Refer A Friend incentives
- Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
- G4S Life Assurance Scheme.
- Subsidised healthcare plan.
- Confidential Counselling Services
- 24/7 support specialising in health and medical
- Discounts on high street shops and brands including several leading high street brands, retailers and travel suppliers.
- Free meals provided on site
- Free Parking onsite
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
