Head of Healthcare
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 January 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS7 8PS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-1556 |
Summary
Provide direction and co-ordination in conjunction with Heads of Departments and relevant managers in shaping and implementing the future provision, quality and performance of services provided. The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and can plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role. To foster andmaintaineffective relationships with stakeholders including HMPPS senior management team, Governors, staff, NHSE commissioners and sub-contractors. Deputise for the Regional Manager asrequired. To strategically develop, deliver, clinicallyauditand evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public healthindicatorsand National Service Frameworks. Todemonstrateand provide robust expert clinical leadership with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach, to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To ensure the implementation of effective andappropriate patientcentred care planning tools I Care Programme Approach (CPA), long-term conditionregistersand consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service. To ensure performance monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in specialist fields and to promote research asappropriate. To ensure the implementation,developmentand participation in managerial and professional clinical and managerial supervision programmes, to ensure all staff receiveappropriate supervision,trainingand annual appraisal, and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice. The post holder will work collaboratively with clinical leads, GPs,psychiatristsand other clinicians/non-clinicians to meet and review service needs asrequired 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 soughtfrom: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).