93 jobs in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Children's and Young People's Asthma Nurse Specialist for the Bexley & Greenwich area. You will be responsible for developing and leading a specialist asthma service for children and young people, providing high-quality, evidence-based care.

Your role includes responsibility for patient education, clinical leadership, and ensuring compliance with local policies. Ideal candidates will have NMC registration and experience in community nursing, with a focus on asthma care.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in London is looking for an experienced Senior Psychiatric Liaison practitioner. You will oversee front line specialist assessments, manage crisis risk effectively, and work closely with the Mental Health Liaison Team.

The role requires skills in clinical leadership and the ability to support junior staff. A competitive salary between £55,524 – £62,652 per annum is offered along with full-time hours and a commitment to inclusion in the workplace.

Bank Advanced Nurse Practitioner – HMP The Verne

As a senior practitioner, leader, and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health care professionals, patients and their carers, the post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day‑to‑day operational management of the primary care team.

The post holder will provide quality primary care interventions to patients, will demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and demonstrate the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, the post holder will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of specialist practice‑based clinical model of care.

The post holder will be qualified as an RGN, with proven experience of working in a primary care setting and significant experience in managing long‑term conditions, QOF and Section 7a indicators. The post holder must also hold either an ACP or NMP qualification.

• 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. This will include leadership of the Primary Care team, including 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 Primary Care team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence‑based practice to provide a pro‑active approach to ensure quality, trauma‑informed, and outcome‑driven services on a day‑to‑day basis.
• Ensure monitoring systems are in place, promote the development of evidence‑based practice in this specialist field and promote research as appropriate.
• Be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the Primary Care team to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.

• 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.
• Lead the Primary Care team, including 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 Primary Care team.
• Ensure monitoring systems, evidence‑based practice and research promotion.
• Develop and participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the Primary Care team.

• Support HoHC in accountability for the delivery of the Quality Agenda; participate in effective management of clinical risk, identification of best practice and addressing remedial actions as required.
• Manage a small, complex Primary Care clinical caseload.
• Develop, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
• Support HoHC in accountability for implementation of clinical policies that are fair and equitable.
• Day‑to‑day management & coordination of Primary Care provision and integration with all other teams within healthcare delivery.
• Ensure all Primary Care clinics and consultations are delivered effectively & timely, in line with service needs and support HoHC for other healthcare teams.

• Establish effective communications and networks to develop practice within healthcare.
• Contribute to the development of formal education, training and development programmes.
• Participate fully in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Participate fully in the Clinical Governance Forum and develop ways to improve learning, clinical practice and patient experience.

• Assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis or complex needs.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a Primary Care perspective, and plan clinical care.
• Integrate non‑medical prescribing, non‑pharmacological and multidisciplinary resources.
• Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence‑based practice and national and practice protocols, within scope of practice.

• Evaluate and audit own and others clinical practice, select and apply valid, reliable methods, and act on findings.
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, using results to underpin practice and inform service improvement.
• Identify gaps in evidence base and its application to practice, and recommend safe and pragmatic solutions.
• Develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
• Participate with and support local research initiatives and facilitate collaborative links between clinical practice and research.

• Develop and maintain effective communication structures, facilitating two‑way communication on professional, local and Trust issues.
• Communicate effectively at management level and to a wide range of target audiences.
• Resolve complex clinical matters between staff and clients where persuasion, motivation and reassurance may be required.
• Establish appropriate communication methods suitable for patients and carers, considering level of understanding, cultural/language needs and preferred method.
• Anticipate and overcome barriers to communication and seek support from other staff when necessary.

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation.
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID.
• Proof of address documentation.
• Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code.
• Address history – 5 years address history will be needed.
• Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

• Professional Qualification (Registered RGN)
• Evidence of Leadership/ Management qualification

• Previous middle management experience in multi‑disciplinary environment delivering Primary Care and services (min 3 years).
• Experience of service implementation, development and change management.
• Experience of working within prison settings.

• Working knowledge of current issues/ agendas facing prison healthcare.
• Knowledge of Models of Care for Primary Care within Secure environments.
• Working knowledge of the criminal justice system and its application to healthcare services.

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.

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for neurodiverse young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Team in Greenwich CAMHS. The post involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties, who also have a diagnosis of Autism, ADHD or a Learning Disability. There is a strong psychological therapies presence in the team, with multiple Clinical Psychologists, an Assistant Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Art Therapist and Family Therapist. Psychology offers a range of evidence‑based therapies, such as CBT, CFT, Narrative Therapy and EMDR within the team, embedded within a neuro‑affirmative approach. The post holder will also have opportunities to develop skills in NVR.

• Take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a treatment pathway or service improvement.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, intervention, and treatment.
• Undertake goal‑based case management.
• Supervise trainee clinical psychologists and qualified psychologists.
• Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation.
• Utilise research skills for audit, service development and research projects within the service.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP‑IAPT principles, and within a multi‑disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

• 2 years experience as Clinical Psychologist.
• Experience of working in a CAMHS setting.
• Experience supervising staff.
• Appropriate UK professional registration.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities.

We have a one-year fixed term Band 7 post for a dynamic and creative clinical psychologist working in two innovative community learning disabilities teams (CLDT) – in the Bromley CLDT (0.4 wte) and the Bexley CLDT (0.6 wte). You will be working with other clinical psychologists, psychological therapists and multidisciplinary team members across the Bromley, Greenwich and Bexley boroughs, based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup.

The learning disability psychology speciality has 27 wte clinical staff across three community learning disability teams. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service, along with individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The speciality encourages research, service evaluation and outcome measurement.

Provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the team, delivering specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment. Supervise assistant psychologists and offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues and other carers. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the service’s policies, utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development. Keep agreed information that allows an evaluation of the service, contribute to service development, routinely collect, review and feedback outcome data and ensure that activity targets are met.

Although based in the Bromley and Bexley CLDTs, the postholder will work with service users from all Oxleas Learning Disability Directorate boroughs (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich) and may also undertake project work related to any of these boroughs.

• Provide specialist psychological assessments using complex data from tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, structured observations and interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients’ mental health problems and other relevant issues, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence‑based methods across all care settings.
• Implement psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, individually and in synthesis, adjusting formulations and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluate and decide on treatment options, considering theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors influencing the client, family or group.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of clients managed by psychologically‑based standard care plans.

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Registration with HCPC
• Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training or other applied psychology fields

• Specialist psychological assessment and treatment experience across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience working within a neurodevelopmental team and/or an ASD diagnostic pathway.

• Skills in complex psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration.
• Well‑developed communication skills, oral and written, for effectively conveying complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, families, carers and professional colleagues inside and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge of specialised psychological therapies for difficult‑to‑treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with neurodevelopmental disabilities).

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme – please select this on your application form. Any information you provide about a disability or need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and only shared with colleagues supporting this request.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) and the 2020 Order, and a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust seeks an ADHD Specialist Psychological Therapist (CBT) in Sidcup to deliver assessments, psychological interventions, and lead psychoeducation groups. This full-time position offers an exciting opportunity to work with a diverse multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will ideally possess a relevant professional qualification and previous experience in psychological therapies. Benefits include a competitive salary and the chance to contribute to innovative, patient-centered services.

Senior Registered Nurse (0.5 WTE – 18.75 hrs/week)

Contract: 0.5 full‑time equivalent, 18.75 hours per week at HMP Channing’s Wood.

Importance of Sponsorship: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

• Provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.
• Deliver clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills.
• Carry out duties such as reception screening, emergency response, long‑term conditions management, planned care (running clinics), enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities.
• Hold a complex caseload and support more junior colleagues with advice and assistance.
• Coordinate the day‑to‑day work of the healthcare team and provide clinical supervision to junior team members, including band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants and students.

Work in a challenging, creative and fast‑paced environment that values personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care.

Name: Ann Woolway
Job title: Head of Healthcare
Email:

To provide a quality primary care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders including triage, medication administration, nurse lead clinics and medical emergency response.

Assist & support the team managers as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care to Kent Prisons.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills.

To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.

To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro‑active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day‑to‑day basis.

To support the development of evidence‑based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.

To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools, long‑term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.

The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

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 Listen
• We Care

Operational

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

To manage a complex clinical caseload.

To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.

Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.

Maintain systems for the collection of triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitoring and supporting the auditing of quality and effectiveness of service delivery.

To be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of co‑ordinating complex prisoners.

Management

Implement the strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.

Maximising resources to target need, including the supervision of staff.

Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to team members, whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability on a shift‑to‑shift basis.

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

To implement appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed Trust Policies.

To implement effective systems and interfaces with community and acute health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge. To actively promote and demonstrate working across professional and organisational boundaries.

To maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, (prison staff, Ministry of Justice, Trust & Directorate senior managers & relevant forums, CMHT staff, NHS Hospitals, Probation Services, CPS, Courts, GP's, community health services, Housing/Benefit services, social care, community multi agency forums etc.).

Human Resources

Responsible for day‑to‑day co‑ordination of the Integrated Healthcare Team.

To ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training, and personal development needs.

Governance

Ensure junior staff compliance with all Prison and Trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.

Ensure appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance, and procedures.

Ensuring high standards of electronic record‑keeping competencies and offender confidentiality in line with trust & prison policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes.

General

To liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust's other Directorates as required.

To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment.

Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staffs are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act.

To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines.

To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.

Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID

Proof of address documentation

Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited .

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (

• Registered Nurse RGN
• Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.

• Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
• Experience of multi‑professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
• Experience of working within secure & prison settings (desirable but not essential)

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
• Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
• Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
• Good analytical and judgement skills

• Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

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.

Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer

£41,959 to £50,117 a yearPER ANNUM **RECRUITMENT & RETENTION INCENTIVE INCLUDED**