Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7533508-ERLE
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Erlestoke
- Town
- Wiltshire
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Primary Care Clinical Lead
Band 7
Job overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our healthcare team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Join us in a stimulating role at HMP Erlestoke, where you can truly flourish as a clinical leader. We seek a dynamic and passionate individual to fill the Primary Care Clinical Lead role. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, & a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
Main duties of the job
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
**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.**
Key Task and Responsibilities
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The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service.
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To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders.
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Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues.
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Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.
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Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.
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Provide a range of quality services and intervention.
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The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
Management responsibilities
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To play a lead role in the on-going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
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To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.
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Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
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Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed.
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Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
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Monitor and audit of the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery
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See JD & PS for further information
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 Nurse (Mental Health or General)
- Post graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-qualification practice
- Demonstrates senior management level or supervisory role including managing change and introducing new ways of working.
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Working knowledge of current issues and agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvette Carroll
- Job title
- Head of Healthcare
- Email address
- [email protected]
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