Primary Care Clinical Manager

Job Introduction

HMP Forest Bank are currently recruiting for a Primary Care Clinical Manager to provide day-to-day leadership and management of healthcare services, through the deployment of staff resources and to ensure delivery in accordance with contractual and professional standards.

HMP Forest Bank serves the courts of Greater Manchester and maintains strong links to the local community with a focus on resettlement. We aim to deliver quality of life services and support people to change their lives for the better.

Opportunities for learning and developing work-ready skills are on offer for all who come in to custody, but our commitment to reducing reoffending in local communities does not end at the prison gate. We support people released from custody through innovative partnerships in substance misuse services in Bury and Oldham, working with people to maintain recovery and lead law-abiding lives.

As well as the 16 residential units on site, there is a healthcare centre, gym, library, workshop complex, visits hall, chaplaincy and kitchen. The prison’s capacity stands at 1,460, holding adult men both on remand or sentenced and young prisoners between the ages of 18-21 years.

For more information on working in Justice within Sodexo please see Careers

Role Responsibility

• Provide day-to-day leadership and management of healthcare services, through the deployment of staff resources and to ensure delivery in accordance with contractual and professional standards.
• Develop and maintain links with associated healthcare agencies in the local community.
• Develop and maintain close partnership working relationships with all other departments within the establishment.
• Develop a process and monitoring system to ensure that all parts of the Healthcare Centre environment are maintained in a clean tidy manner and equipment is in good working order with adherence to annual testing requirements
• Provide strategic clinical management support to the Head of Healthcare.
• Provide leadership ensuring a high standard of care is delivered in accordance with clinical standards.
• Continuously review clinical standards with agreed clinical governance frameworks, policies and procedures ensuring compliance with audits and standards.
• Undertake and monitor  PDR/appraisal and provide clinical supervision for staff.
• Ensure TBSR runs effectively , record and authorise annual leave for clinical staff ensuring the needs of the service are met
• Develop Health Promotion within the establishment in liaison with other departments.
• Develop and deliver an effective two-way communication structure to disseminate information between the Practice Manager and healthcare staff.
• Ability to deliver the business and people plan objectives within their designated area.
• Monitor QOF reporting and HJIP figures
• Write SOP and SLA in conjunction with external service providers.
• Manage disciplinary procedures and grievances for staff.
• Work with PHE in the management of identified disease risk within the prison

**Full job description below

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• NMC Registered. Registered Nurse
• Meet CPD requirements and Revalidation
• Able to demonstrate track record in decision making.
• Previous senior nurse experience

Desirable

• Custodial Experience
• Mentorship
• Experience in the management of performance measures

Package Description

£44,000 per annum 

37.5 hours per week 

Some of the other benefits that we offer are:

• 25 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays, this increases to 28 days plus 8 days bank holiday after 3 years of service. There is also the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days holiday.
• Maternity Pay – 12 weeks full pay reducing to 12 weeks half pay and bonus after 5 years service of 4 weeks pay.
• Sick pay Full pay for 4 weeks from 3 months service increasing with service length to full pay for 12 weeks with over 5 years service
• Free on-site parking and free meals while on duty
• Long service award
• Free learning and development
• Access to Sodexo Discounts – wide range of Holiday, travel and retail discounts
• Support in contributing ½ towards NMC fee’s
• Subsidsed gym membership.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Please note all roles within Sodexo Justice are subject to security and recruitment checks which may include a Social Media Check. You will also be asked to provide 5 years’ worth of references and request employment history details from the HMRC