Associate Director - Offender Healthcare Operations

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a permanent role as Associate Director, to provide effective leadership and management of all Oxleas' Prison Healthcare services across London and Kent. We are looking for an experienced and driven senior leader to join our friendly senior leadership group., The purpose of the role is to lead the operational deliver of integrated physical, mental and emotional well-being of detained populations within HMP London and Kent.1. In conjunction with the Service Director is responsible for the effective leadership and management of all Prison healthcare services which contractually we provide.2. In liaison with the Service Director and Heads of Healthcare will regularly link with key stakeholders including commissioners and prison governors and directors. This will include attendance at contract meetings and local prison governance forums.3. In liaison with the Service Director and other members of the Core Board will lead the development agenda on new business opportunities, including writing business cases.4. Provide direction and co-ordination in conjunction with Heads of Healthcare services in shaping and implementing the future provision and quality of services provided.5. To ensure proactive management of sub-contracted services, through a regular review process that ensure the required quality and financial standards are met.

You will possess excellent organisational skills. You will also be a quick but considered thinker, who is able to flex between dealing with emerging crises and working towards the service's long-term aspirations. You will be someone who excels in establishing and developing excellent working relationships with service users, colleagues, partner agencies and stakeholders, and you will be skilled at coordinating moving parts and dealing with ambiguity and nuance.

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're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care