Primary Care Lead

NHS; Rochester; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Primary Care Lead to provide clinical leadership in delivering a nurse-led integrated primary care service at prison sites. The role involves developing healthcare standards, collaborating with teams, and making a lasting impact on health outcomes for marginalized populations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years' experience at a Senior Nurse level (Band 6).
• Experience of working within prison settings.
• Experience of managing staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership and support to junior staff.
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate the Integrated Primary Healthcare Service.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet service needs.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Patient-Centered Care

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Change Management

Communication

Education

Professional Qualification (Registered General Nurse, Paramedic, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician)

Post Graduate Qualification to Masters level

Job description

Job summary

Join Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, an award winning employer recognised for its excellent staff experience and wellbeing. We are seeking a Primary Care Lead to provide expert clinical leadership and support the Deputy Head of Healthcare in delivering a nurse-led integrated primary care service at our prison sites. This role involves working closely with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons and occasionally providing cross-cover. If you are passionate about making a difference and meet the qualifications, we would love to hear from you.

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

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll be the driving force behind our Primary Care service, steering a team of diverse and talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.But that's just the beginning, you will be the architect of new standards in healthcare within our establishment. From developing to implementing and monitoring unique quality improvement initiatives, clinical protocols, and guidelines, your work will directly enhance patient safety and outcomes. Your role will extend beyond the walls of HMP Cookham Wood. You will develop and nurture vital relationships with other healthcare providers, prison staff, and external agencies, promoting an integrated approach to healthcare. Collaborating with the Head of Healthcare, you will have a significant role in strategically planning our healthcare services, aligning with national standards and local needs. Your visionary approach will identify areas for improvement and innovation, allowing you to lead on initiatives that transform service delivery. The role is more than a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact, leading and shaping Primary Care services in a prison setting. If your passion lies in bridging health disparities and reducing health inequalities for a marginalised and often overlooked population, we invite you to bring your skills, vision, and enthusiasm to this immensely rewarding role at HMP Cookham Wood.

About us

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

Details Date posted

20 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£48,148 to £54,809 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-7160876-COOK

Job locations

HMP Cookham Wood

Sir Evelyn Road

Rochester

ME1 3LU

Job description Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert clinical leadership and support to junior staff.
• Develop, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Primary Healthcare Service.
• Ensure the implementation of effective patient-centered care planning tools.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet and review service needs.
• Undertake training to maximize uptake of NHS screening, health promotion, and prevention activities

Management & Leadership Responsibilities:

• Support the development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• Manage a specialized and complex clinical caseload.
• Maintain National Standards for Health Care in Prisons.
• Develop strategies to promote and improve health and prevent disease.
• Monitor staff performance and compliance with clinical policies and procedures

*please see full job description and person specification in the attachments below

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

Sponsorship is not available for this post.

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 ).

Job description Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert clinical leadership and support to junior staff.
• Develop, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Primary Healthcare Service.
• Ensure the implementation of effective patient-centered care planning tools.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet and review service needs.
• Undertake training to maximize uptake of NHS screening, health promotion, and prevention activities

Management & Leadership Responsibilities:

• Support the development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• Manage a specialized and complex clinical caseload.
• Maintain National Standards for Health Care in Prisons.
• Develop strategies to promote and improve health and prevent disease.
• Monitor staff performance and compliance with clinical policies and procedures

*please see full job description and person specification in the attachments below

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

Sponsorship is not available for this post.

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 Education/Qulification Essential

• Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse, Paramedic, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician)
• Post Graduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of primary care interventions, long-term disease management, vaccination etc.

Experience Essential

• Minimum of 3 years' experience at a Senior Nurse level (Band 6)
• Experience of working within prison settings
• Experience of managing staff
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison healthcare
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a Senior level including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences. Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working.
• Ability to maintain a high profile within senior management structures.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously
• Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.

Person Specification Education/Qulification Essential

• Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse, Paramedic, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician)
• Post Graduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of primary care interventions, long-term disease management, vaccination etc.

Experience Essential

• Minimum of 3 years' experience at a Senior Nurse level (Band 6)
• Experience of working within prison settings
• Experience of managing staff
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison healthcare
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a Senior level including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences. Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working.
• Ability to maintain a high profile within senior management structures.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously
• Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Cookham Wood

Sir Evelyn Road

Rochester

ME1 3LU

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Cookham Wood

Sir Evelyn Road

Rochester

ME1 3LU

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)