Health Visitor (SCPHN)
NHS Jobs - Cullompton
£39,959 to £48,117 a year
PermanentFull time
Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification on the right hand side. How to apply Please ensure when completing your application form that you provide a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential and desirable criteria as described in the person specification of the job description. Applications may not be taken forwards if the supporting statement is not adequately completed.
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Adult Forensic Consultant
NHS Jobs - Bury New Road, Prestwich
£109,725 to £145,478 a year
PermanentFull time
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years Excellent pension Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car scheme Wellbeing programme Blue Light Card Discounts
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Lead Practice Nurse
NHS Jobs - Ipswich
Negotiable
PermanentFull time
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
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Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
NHS Jobs - Borehamwood
Negotiable
PermanentFull time
Are you passionate about creating a workplace where colleagues feel safe, supported, and empowered to raise concerns? Join Elysium Healthcare as a part-time Freedom to Speak Up Guardian to lead, promote, and embed a positive speaking up culture across Elysium Healthcare. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in ensuring colleagues have access to an independent, impartial, and confidential source of support when raising concerns. Working across the organisation, you will help strengthen our culture of openness, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement, ensuring that concerns are listened to, addressed appropriately, and used to support positive change. As Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, you will act as an independent point of contact for colleagues who wish to raise concerns relating to patient safety, quality of care, staff wellbeing, and workplace experience. You will provide confidential guidance, support, and signposting, while maintaining clear boundaries around the role by not conducting or managing investigations. You will ensure colleagues receive appropriate advice on the most suitable route for their concern, including supporting redirection to other internal teams where matters fall outside the Freedom to Speak Up process. You will be responsible for maintaining confidential records, monitoring concerns through to resolution, and ensuring issues are escalated appropriately and proportionately where required. Regular engagement with colleagues across our services will be essential, helping to build trust, visibility, and confidence in speaking up processes while identifying local themes, barriers, and opportunities for improvement. A key aspect of the role will involve identifying and escalating concerns that present immediate risks to service user safety, staff wellbeing, safeguarding, regulatory compliance, or organisational integrity. You will build strong working relationships across operational, clinical, People, quality, governance, safeguarding, compliance, legal, communications, and regulatory teams to ensure concerns are managed effectively and learning is embedded across services. You will also lead the development and ongoing support of the Freedom to Speak Up Champion network, ensuring Champions are equipped to promote speaking up locally and provide visible support to colleagues. Alongside this, you will drive communication and engagement initiatives, increase awareness of Freedom to Speak Up processes, contribute to policy development, and ensure Elysium Healthcare continues to align with national best practice and professional standards. This is a permanent position, working 30 hours per week. Where you'll be working: Hybrid role - with a mix of home, office and site working. Key responsibilities: Act as an independent, impartial and objective point of contact for colleagues who wish to speak up. Provide confidential guidance, support, signposting and assurance following concerns raised. Promote a culture where colleagues feel safe, heard and confident to raise concerns. Provide guidance and support to individuals whose concerns should be redirected to other teams, such as the People team, where they do not meet the criteria for the FTSU process. Ensure concerns raised through the Freedom to Speak Up route are recorded, reviewed, escalated and followed up appropriately. Review and analyse speaking up data, themes, trends, outcomes, barriers and evidence of detriment or repeat concerns. Build collaborative relationships across operational, clinical, People, safeguarding, governance and regulatory teams. Share organisational themes with the Executive team and relevant senior leaders to support learning and continuous improvement. Maintain and develop the Freedom to Speak Up Champion network. Lead communication and engagement activity to raise awareness of Freedom to Speak Up routes. Support the review and improvement of relevant policies, procedures, guidance, training and communication materials. Engage with external guidance, best practice and wider Freedom to Speak Up networks. Attend sites regularly to build visibility, trust and confidence in the role. To be successful in this role: Knowledge & Skills Strong understanding of Freedom to Speak Up principles, whistleblowing, confidentiality, safeguarding, and psychological safety. Excellent communication, listening, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to support colleagues sensitively and professionally. Ability to analyse and interpret data, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Strong judgement, integrity, and resilience, with the confidence to challenge constructively and escalate concerns where appropriate. Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate records. Able to work independently while building effective relationships across clinical, operational, and corporate teams. Experience Experience in a Freedom to Speak Up, whistleblowing, patient safety, governance, organisational culture, staff experience, or similar assurance role, ideally within healthcare. Proven experience of managing sensitive and confidential concerns with impartiality and professionalism. Experience of working with senior leaders and governance forums to provide insight, assurance, and recommendations. Experience of engaging with colleagues across multiple sites within a large or complex organisation. Experience of preparing reports and presenting findings to senior stakeholders. What You’ll Get At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future: Annual competitive pro rata salary The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window. Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub! Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts Life Assurance, for added peace of mind Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support. 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time Pension contribution, to help secure your future About us: Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure
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Clinical Psychologist
NHS Jobs - Hertfordshire
£50,000 to £55,000 a year
PermanentFull time
Are you an experienced Psychologist looking to take the next step in your career? If so, join Rhodes Wood Hospital, Hatfield, Hertfordshire a service for CAMHS Eating Disorders. This is an opportunity to change lives for the better and help some of the most vulnerable people in society. Reporting directly to the Therapy Lead, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and be requested to design and deliver training. As a Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user’s caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans. Your Psychologist career at Rhodes Wood will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills throughout your time with us. Your professional growth is valued and there are numerous career development opportunities on offer. There is an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career. It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like. As a Psychologist you will be: Participating in the assessment of referrals, and to provide initial assessment service users referred to the service. Undertaking high quality direct (assessment & therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions and making autonomous clinical decisions. Working therapeutically with service users with complex presentations, undertake the assessments using a broad range of structured psychometric and semi structured clinical methods. Formulating and implementing plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of patients’ mental health needs based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence based best practise. Being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical work and care. Maintaining high standards of care in all areas of practice and in accordance the HCPC Code of Conduct, professional guidelines and Company Policies and Procedures. To be successful in this role, you'll need: Have BPS recognised psychology degrees Be HCPC registered Have Chartered Psychologist status and appropriate post-graduate qualifications Be an approved supervisor within the guidelines of the BPS and relevant division Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice Have experience of applying psychological knowledge to a clinicial setting. Be experienced working with clients with cognitive deficits Have previous experience of conducting research and project working Where you will be working: Rhodes Wood Hospital, Shepherds Way, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9 6NN Rhodes Wood Hospital is a specialist Inpatient Eating Disorder service for children and young people aged 8 up to 18 years. Each treatment programme is tailored to the needs of the young person. What You’ll Get At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future: Annual base salary of £50,000 The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window. Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub! Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts Life Assurance, for added peace of mind Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support. 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time Pension contribution, to help secure your future About your next employer: Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure
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PCN Clinical Pharmacist
NHS Jobs - NORTHAMPTON
Negotiable
PermanentFull time
Key duties and responsibilities Patient facing Long term condition clinics See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma) Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation) Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing care home medication reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Management of common/minor/self limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines Suggesting and recommending solutions Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Unplanned hospital admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. Repeat prescribing Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs) Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health To support public health campaigns To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Collaborative Working Relationships Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs) Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients GP, nurses and other practice staff Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.
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