Head of Healthcare

• Provide strong operational leadership across all healthcare services (primary care, mental health and substance misuse) within the prison, ensuring consistent, high-quality care delivery
• Take full responsibility for budget management, including planning, monitoring, and delivering services within financial constraints while ensuring value for money
• Lead and embed a culture of clinical governance, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, policies, and best practice
• Oversee risk management, quality assurance, and continuous service improvement initiatives
• Manage, support, and develop a multidisciplinary workforce, including performance management, workforce planning, and staff wellbeing
• Act as a key liaison with prison leadership, commissioners, and external stakeholders to ensure integrated and effective service delivery
• Maintain the strategic direction of the service, and deliver on agreed contractual requirements and targets from NHS England 
• Lead, develop and motivate your team to deliver the best service possible
• Work closely with senior management within the prison, as well as the finance business partner and regional manager

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

• A qualified and registered clinician (e.g. Nurse or Paramedic) with substantial post-registration experience
• Proven experience in a senior operational management role within healthcare, ideally in a secure, custodial, or similarly complex environment
• Strong and demonstrable budget management and financial oversight experience
• In-depth understanding of clinical governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance
• A confident and credible leader with experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams
• Resilient, adaptable, and able to work effectively within a challenging and highly regulated environment