Practice Plus Group
Medical Lead (Part Time)
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About The Role
UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
- MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE
We have an exciting opportunity for a Directorate Medical Lead to join the Health in Justice service at Practice Plus Group.
You will work across the Midlands Directorate, which covers our prisons across East and West Midlands.
This role is home based, with travel to sites across the directorate as required.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for providing professional, strategic, and operational leadership across nursing and allied health professional (AHP) services.
In this role you will ensure high-quality, safe, patient-centred care and lead on quality improvement, professional standards, workforce development, and governance.
Salary & Hours
This position is part time working 22.5 hours per week.
You will receive an annual salary of up to £90,000 per annum - based on 22.5 hours per week.
How will we support you?
- Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks
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What you'll be doing
As a Directorate Medical Lead your responsibilities will vary. You will:
- Provide professional and medical leadership across Health in Justice services.
- Support and develop medical, clinical, and governance teams.
- Develop medical leadership capability across the organisation.
- Ensure services are safe, effective, responsive and well-led.
- Lead on clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives.
- Support the implementation of the Quality Assurance Framework and Continuous Quality Review processes.
- Oversee patient safety incident management, including deaths in custody.
- Investigate complaints, incidents, inquests and legal cases where required.
- Ensure lessons learned are implemented and shared across services.
- Contribute to business development, service mobilisation and new healthcare service offerings.
- Identify opportunities for service improvement and growth.
- Maintain awareness of national healthcare developments and secure-environment policy changes.
- Build relationships with NHS England, commissioners, HMPPS, Ministry of Justice and other external partners.
- Represent Health in Justice at national meetings, conferences and working groups.
- Navigate a complex stakeholder environment effectively.
- Escalate and address concerns relating to professional conduct or patient safety.
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What we'll look for in you
The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 60 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.
Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together
We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.
Qualifications, skills and experience required:
- Full current GMC registration and on the NHS England Performers List, or on the Specialist Register in a relevant specialty.
- Ongoing compliance with GMC appraisal and revalidation requirements.
- Significant experience in a senior medical leadership role
- Experience leading clinical teams and influencing service improvement.
- Experience improving patient experience and patient outcomes.
- Experience implementing evidence-based practice and medical research.
- Understanding of clinical governance, quality assurance and patient safety processes.
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