Regional Medical Lead - West Midlands

Make a difference from day one!

As a Regional Medical Lead for the west midlands within Health in Justice, you will provide dynamic leadership of the medical profession across the west midlands cluster of Practice Plus Group’s Health in Justice services. Within this, you’ll be pivotal in engaging the medical workforce to support the delivery of the organisation’s objectives, thus ensuring the provision of an effective high quality medical workforce within the available resources. 

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is it!

What will you be doing?

You will support the National Medical Director and HiJ Service Director and their deputies in shaping the policies and strategies for developing and modernising medical practice throughout the service line, in order to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate healthcare services for patients. You will represent west midlands the service line with external organisations and networks and will be required to maintain clinical practice within one of the prisons in the cluster to maintain clinical skills and clinical credibility.

We recognise training and development is key, therefore we provide a training portal to facilitate your needs as well as have an in-depth induction for all staff whether you have experience of working in prisons or not. You will be able to broaden your experience within Mental Health and Substance Misuse, as well as access to a variety of training opportunities with the opportunity to work towards other qualifications should you wish.

We offer a competitive annual salary plus payment of MDU/MPS subscription and CPD days. This role is a part time opportunity, working 12 hours a week. If you are looking for portfolio work or cross site working, we can offer this on a temporary or permanent basis with the opportunities of extra shifts and overtime also.

We have a wide range of company benefits also, including a company contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave rising to 28 days with service plus 8 public bank holidays (pro rata for part time applications), access to shopping discounts and the NHS blue light card, financial assistance when you need it, access to discounted memberships such as Costco and a cycle to work scheme.

Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments.

We are passionate about what we do and our core values are:

- 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.

If this resonates with you then we’d like to hear from you!

Please note that offers of employment are subject to Practice Plus Group Terms & Conditions and receipt of satisfactory references, an enhanced DBS check and prison vetting.

At Practice Plus Group we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities and we are committed to this in both the running of our prison healthcare service and how we recruit our staff. We actively encourage applications from everyone with the essential requirements of the job, regardless of any protected characteristics.