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Job summary

Main area
Offender Healthcare
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
277-8341791-GUYS
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
HMP Guys Marsh
Town
Shaftesbury
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/10/2026 23:59
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Primary Care Clinical Lead

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you an experienced senior nurse or advanced clinical practitioner looking for an opportunity to lead and develop high-quality healthcare within a custodial setting?
 
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Primary Care Clinical Lead to join the integrated healthcare team at HMP Guys Marsh. This is a senior clinical leadership role with responsibility for the delivery and development of primary care and clinical substance misuse services.
Working closely with the Head of Healthcare, you will provide expert clinical leadership, support the day-to-day management of services and help ensure that patients receive safe, effective and evidence-based care. You will also contribute to the wider senior leadership team and deputise for the Head of Healthcare when required.
 
Applicants should be a registered healthcare professional with significant primary care experience, a non-medical prescribing qualification or be working towards one, and hold or be completing a master’s-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.
 

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

You will lead and coordinate the primary care service, ensuring that care is responsive to the needs of the prison population and integrated with mental health, medicines management, GP, dental and wider healthcare provision.
 
The role includes providing expert clinical advice, supervision and leadership to multidisciplinary staff; overseeing clinical pathways, referrals and care planning; and supporting the effective management of acute presentations, long-term conditions, health promotion, screening, immunisation and substance misuse treatment.
 
You will promote strong clinical governance through audit, risk management, incident review, evidence-based practice and service evaluation. You will also support workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, performance management and the effective use of resources.
 
Working with prison colleagues, commissioners, community services and other partner organisations, you will help ensure continuity of care throughout custody and on release.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As Primary Care Clinical Lead, you will provide visible, professional and compassionate leadership for the primary care service. You will exercise a high level of professional autonomy, making complex clinical decisions while maintaining accountability for the quality and safety of care.
You will undertake advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting with undifferentiated, acute or complex needs. Within your professional scope, you will prescribe and review medication, support the management of long-term conditions and ensure patients receive appropriate health promotion, preventative care and self-management advice.
 
You will lead the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based clinical pathways, including chronic disease management, acute care, immunisations, screening, detoxification, rehabilitation and harm-reduction interventions. You will ensure that patients with complex needs receive coordinated, individualised and regularly reviewed care plans.
 
The post holder will provide clinical and managerial supervision, support appraisal and professional development, and promote a culture of reflective learning and continuous improvement. You will monitor performance, maintain high standards of clinical documentation and ensure staff work in accordance with Trust, prison and national policies.
You will contribute to clinical audit, research, quality improvement and service evaluation, using findings to improve patient outcomes and experience. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries and deputise for the Head of Healthcare when required.
 
This is an excellent opportunity to shape the delivery of integrated healthcare in a complex and rewarding environment while supporting improvements in the health and wellbeing of people in prison.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: 

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.     

You will need to provide:  

Proof of right to work documentation  

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID 

Proof of address documentation  

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.    

Address History:  

5 years address history will be needed.   

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.  

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.   

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants 

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en). 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered healthcare professional, with current professional registration.
  • Master’s-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or currently working towards completion
  • Non-Medical Prescribing qualification, or currently working towards completion
  • Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post-registration experience within primary care and/or clinical substance misuse services
  • At least three years’ management experience within a multidisciplinary healthcare environment
  • Experience of service development, change management, clinical audit and quality improvement
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of delivering care within a prison, secure or similarly complex healthcare setting

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Strong clinical leadership and management skills, with the ability to work autonomously and make complex decisions
  • Advanced assessment, diagnostic and clinical decision-making skills within professional scope of practice
  • Good understanding of clinical governance, risk management, safeguarding, patient safety and evidence-based practice
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Danielle Blackmore
Job title
Head of Healthcare
Email address
[email protected]

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