Primary Care Clinical Lead
| Posting date: | 04 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS16 9QJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-26-0597 |
Summary
Key Task and Responsibilities The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service. To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders. Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues. Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service. Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care. Provide a range of quality services and intervention. 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 To play a lead role in the on-going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model. To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs. Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs. Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed Leadership Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisals. To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff 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. To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice Clinical The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatient manager and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role. To manage a clinical caseload. Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offenders care pathway whilst detained in prison Research To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks. To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate. Communication To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required. Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations. 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 photographicID 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).