Clinical Lead Primary Care | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A public healthcare organization in London is seeking a Band 6 Register General Nurse to work in the Offender Healthcare Service at HMP Wandsworth. The role involves providing exceptional primary care and leading a team in delivering services to a challenging population. Candidates should possess excellent clinical skills and be prepared to undergo vetting processes. Full support and training will be provided for suitable applicants.

Qualifications

• Experience with patients having substance misuse and mental health issues can be advantageous.
• Willingness to take a numeracy test.
• Ability to undergo National Security Vetting.

Responsibilities

• Exercise personal and professional autonomy in judgment.
• Supervise staff and manage clinical caseload.
• Lead the development of integrated healthcare services.

Skills

Clinical skills

Decision-making

Leadership

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Calling All Register General Nurses

Are you looking for a challenge? Do you enjoy variety and dealing with complex patients? Do you possess excellent clinical skills? Do you want to make a difference?

We have a number of exciting and challenging new posts in the Offender Healthcare Service at HMP Wandsworth. This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at one of the largest prisons in the UK. You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and substance misuse services for our population.

Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference.

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

You will be joining us at an exciting time and be involved in the implementation of a Health and Wellbeing Model to improve offender healthcare. You will join our established team of nurses across the prison and will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting the following services: Primary Care services including First Night in Custody screening, secondary screening, nurse clinics, long term condition management, health promotion; Inpatient Unit; Emergency Response and Substance Misuse nursing services. You will be supported by our friendly team of healthcare staff in an environment where no two days are the same.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the management of the Primary Care Clinical Lead.
• Make decision‑making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
• Be responsible for primary care staff rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.
• Supervise staff and conduct annual appraisal.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence‑based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• Lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, ensuring all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to become an integral part of team practice.
• Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training and personal development needs.
• Lead in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient‑centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA) and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.
• Participate in all service reviews as required.
• Act as an Authorised Signatory as well as being responsible for the booking of temporary staffing.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Play a lead role in the ongoing development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• Manage a clinical caseload.
• 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.
• Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
• Monitor and audit the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison.
• Liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.

Qualifications and Experience

We are looking for a Band 6 nurse from a wide variety of backgrounds. Experience of working with patients with substance misuse and mental health issues, or experience within a prison environment would be an advantage, but not essential as full support and training will be provided.

All applicants will be expected to take a numeracy test and only applicants who pass this test will be interviewed.

Application Information

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.

Disclaimer

This advert closes on Thursday 27 Nov 2025.