Deputy Head of Healthcare | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	22 Rhagfyr 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£57,690 - £64,682 pa inc
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	21 Ionawr 2026
Lleoliad:	Rochester, ME1 3QS
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7685817/277-7685817-ROCH

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An exciting opportunity for a Deputy Head of Healthcare at HMP Rochester has become available to work alongside the Head of Healthcare and Senior Management Team.

The post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence

You will be accountable and manage a multi-disciplinary team that includes leading the mental health, primary care, substance misuse nursing, pharmacy and administration services, and work closely with partners to ensure the smooth running of all other services (GP services, optometry, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry, sexual health, drug & alcohol & IAPT services to the establishment).

The post holder will need to act up in the absence of the Head of Healthcare and needs to be flexible and willing to cross cover sites depending on service needs. This post is based at HMP Rochester but will require close working relationships with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons; HMP Cookham Wood, HMP Maidstone and HMP East Sutton Park, cross-cover may occasionally be required.

This role is based on site at HMP Rochester/Cookham Wood

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

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership , alongside the Head of Healthcare, and oversight of acute & primary care, long term conditions management, substance misuse services, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.

To establish and provide robust expert nursing clinical leadership to the healthcare team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis.

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


• To support the HoH in accountabilityfor the delivery of the Quality Agenda; participate in the effective management of clinical risk, the identification of best practice and addressing remedial actions as required
• To have oversight of all complex patients within the service
• To develop, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
• To support the HoH in accountability for implementation of clinical policies that are fair and equitable and support the needs of the Commissioners and offenders and are in line with Trust key performance targets and Clinical Governance Frameworks.
• To be responsible for day-to-day management & co-ordination of the healthcare provision and ensure integration amongst all teams within healthcare delivery. Supporting the HoHC to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in an effective & timely way, in line with service needs.
• Supporting the HoH to manage the cycle of clinical audits and evaluation of integrated healthcare services for the prison, including primary care interventions, long term conditions management, substance misuse services, mental health, and other health promotion activities in line with Health and Justice Indicators of Performance.
• To lead the development of healthcare strategies and to support strategy development to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as required.
• To provide expert clinical leadership with a sound understanding of evidence based practice, having a pro-active approach ensuring delivery of quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis. Maximising resources to target need, including the deployment and supervision of staff.
• To be responsible for the development of systems for the collection triage & allocation of referrals to appropriate service provision, and monitoring and auditing the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
• Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to team members, whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability for performance & results.
• To maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison.
• To be responsible for ensuring high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and offender confidentiality in line prison/ forensic unit policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes.
• To monitor and review the implementation of appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools for all patients that are subject to the process in accordance with agreed Trust Policies.
• To implement and monitor systems for clinical supervision to team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training, and personal development needs.
• To develop effective systems and interfaces with community services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge. To actively promote and demonstrate working across professional and organisational boundaries.
• To maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, (prison staff, Ministry of Justice, Trust & Directorate senior managers & relevant forums, CMHT staff, NHS Hospitals, Probation Services, CPS, Courts, GP’s, community health services, Housing/Benefit services, social care, community multi-agency forums etc.).
• To maintain staff compliance with all Prison and Trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate. Responsible for the management of all matters relating to discipline, complaints and serious & untoward incidents and investigations as required.
• To be responsible for ensuring appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance, and procedures.
• Responsible for the selection recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled staff.
• To liaise with other Senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust’s other Directorates as required.

Dimensions of Post Holder
• To effectively manage and continuously monitor all delegated budgets and resources within the post holder's sphere of control.
• To be an authorised signatory for the Integrated Healthcare team as required.
• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with the Head of Healthcare.

Custodial Responsibilities
• Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
• Comply with all security requirements.
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.



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).




This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026

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