Clinical leadership

Our medical leadership is the jewel in our crown, with robust leadership structures across all parts of Practice Plus Group.

Our size means we benefit from agility in how we work, but we’re big enough to make a real difference and contribution across many avenues of healthcare.

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Secondary Care

Our reputation for quality care is well known as the UK’s largest independent provider of NHS services. We believe that anyone should be able to access excellent care, whether via the NHS or privately.

We look to our leadership team to seek out new technologies to harness and pathways to innovate that make a real and tangible impact to the patient experience and improvements to their lives. One such example of innovation we’re proud of is the introduction of a clinical pathway meaning same day arthroplasties are now common place in several of our hospitals resulting in significantly improved patient outcomes.

Prison Healthcare

The primary care clinical lead role varies in relation to the type of prison and subsequent service provision, so there are some differences across our services. However, there are two broad themes around the role of the clinical lead which are:

  1. Providing oversight of the primary care service in terms of delivering safe and effective care, and
  2. Being a role model to develop services and provide support for their teams.

Some clinical leads work clinically on a daily basis, working alongside their team, others will work clinically for a set number of days per week, and use the rest of their time to engage in governance work and function as a line manager e.g. representing healthcare at meetings with the wider prison, undertaking/overseeing audits, Datix, report writing, staff allocation, manage HR issues, recruitment, 1-2-1s etc.

What makes being a member of the clinical leadership team in prisons so unique is the unpredictability from day to day, the opportunity to care for people with a wide range of healthcare need/patients with complex needs, and the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team including non-healthcare staff (prison staff) to ensure safe and effective care can be provided.

“It was an opportunity to do something new and an opportunity to put all of my knowledge and everything that I’d learnt into practice which I wasn’t able to do in my previous role very much.”

Catherine
Hospital Director

Current Vacancies

Job title Location Contract type Schedule type Closing date
Regional Quality and Governance Manager Devon OOH NHS 111 Permanent 30 Jun 2023
IUC Medical Lead Dorking Out Of Hours Out of Hours (OOH) Fixed Term 30 Jun 2023
Medical Director Practice Plus Group Hospital Plymouth Hospitals, Surgical Centres, MSK and Diagnostics Permanent 30 Jun 2023
Mental Health Team Leader – HMP Ford HMP Ford Prison Healthcare Permanent 20 Jun 2023
Primary Care Clinical Lead – HMP Winchester HMP Winchester Prison Healthcare Permanent 20 Jun 2023
Inpatient Clinical Lead – HMP Winchester HMP Winchester Prison Healthcare Permanent 20 Jun 2023
Primary Care Clinical Lead – Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre Gatwick IRC Prison Healthcare Permanent 19 Jun 2023
Modern Matron – HMP Lewes HMP Lewes Prison Healthcare Permanent 16 Jun 2023
Integrated Substance Misuse Clinical Lead- HMP Lewes HMP Lewes Prison Healthcare Permanent 16 Jun 2023
Mental Health Clinical Lead – HMP Lewes HMP Lewes Prison Healthcare Permanent 16 Jun 2023
Substance Misuse Clinical Lead- HMP Altcourse HMP Altcourse Prison Healthcare Permanent 14 Jun 2023
Clinical Matron – HMP Bullingdon Thames Valley HMP Bullingdon Prison Healthcare Permanent 14 Jun 2023
Substance Misuse Clinical Lead – HMP The Mount HMP The Mount Prison Healthcare Permanent 13 Jun 2023
Advanced Nurse Practitioner – HMP The Mount HMP The Mount Prison Healthcare Permanent 13 Jun 2023
Mental Health Clinical Lead – HMP YOI Warren Hill Suffolk HMP YOI Warren Hill Prison Healthcare Permanent 13 Jun 2023
Early Days in Custody Clinical Lead – HMP Eastwood Park HMP Eastwood Park Prison Healthcare Permanent 8 Jun 2023
Patient Experience Liaison Officer- HMP Bullingdon Thames Valley HMP Bullingdon Prison Healthcare Permanent 8 Jun 2023
Deputy Head of Healthcare- HMP Dovegate HMP Dovegate Prison Healthcare Permanent 7 Jun 2023
Release and Transfer Clinical Lead – HMP Thameside HMP Thameside Prison Healthcare Permanent 7 Jun 2023
Patient Engagement Lead- HMP YOI Swinfen Hall West Midlands HMP YOI Swinfen Hall Prison Healthcare Permanent 7 Jun 2023

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