Head of Healthcare

Practice Plus Group; Lewes; Sur place; GBP 60 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Discounts on shopping and leisure

Career development opportunities

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Résumé du poste

Practice Plus Group is seeking a Head of Healthcare for HMP Lewes, a category B local prison in Lewes, East Sussex. The role leads on-site clinical services, delivering contractual requirements from NHS England within budget, while guiding a multidisciplinary team and ensuring a safe, high-quality care environment.

We offer bespoke induction, competency framework, and regional/national career development within a supportive team, with on-call duties and core office hours.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent level of experience or clinical qualification.
• Inclusive leadership approach embedding a culture of continuous progression and innovation.
• Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and deliver information to key partners and stakeholders.
• Experience as a CQC registered manager, or equivalent registered body.

Responsabilités

• Deliver non-judgemental, compassionate care within the financial framework that is safe, high quality and in line with CQC requirements.
• Inspire trust and excellence in your people by pro-actively leading the service and motivating the team.
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence based care and continuous quality improvement embedding a culture of shared learning.
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, and lead multi-disciplinary teams of clinical and non-clinical colleagues who support each other to do a great job.

Connaissances

Leadership

Multi-disciplinary teams

Presentation skills

Influence

CQC knowledge

Formation

Degree or equivalent

Description du poste

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Healthcare to join team at HMP Lewes, a category B Prison located in Lewes, East Sussex.

About The Role

HMP Lewes is a reception and resettlement category B local prison for male adult and young adult prisoners (aged 18 to 21) with a capacity for 580 inmates.

As Head of Healthcare you will provide pro‑active management of the healthcare services on site. This will include maintaining the strategic direction of the service and delivering agreed contractual requirements and targets from NHS England. You will be responsible for delivering a highly functional clinical service, within the budget, with support from the finance business partner and regional manager.

Hours

Monday - Friday

Core office hours

You will be expected to support with on call duties.

Salary

This position is full time you’ll receive an annual salary of up to £75,000 per annum.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver non-judgemental, compassionate care within the financial framework that is safe, high quality and in line with CQC requirements. This will be achieved through adherence to policies and procedures and compliance with statutory responsibilities whilst driving excellence.
• Inspire trust and excellence in your people by pro-actively leading the service and motivating the team, recognising that our workforce is our most valuable asset. Key stakeholders will be assured knowing we provide a service that people can trust, feel safe within and feel proud of.
• Promote best practice, clinical supervision, evidence based care and continuous quality improvement embedding a culture of shared learning.
• Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care, and lead multi-disciplinary teams of clinical and non-clinical colleagues who support each other to do a great job

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

What we’ll look for in you

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Degree or appropriate equivalent level of experience or clinical qualification
• Inclusive leadership approach embedding a culture of continuous progression and innovation
• Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to influence and deliver information to key partners and stakeholders
• Experience as a CQC registered manager, or equivalent registered body

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.