Head of Healthcare HMP Woodhill

Integrated Care System; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

The Integrated Care System seeks a Head of Healthcare for HMP Woodhill. This dynamic role focuses on leading healthcare services, ensuring quality and compliance while managing a diverse team. Ideal candidates have significant experience in senior healthcare management and a strong commitment to improving prison health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in senior management within healthcare services.
• Proven record in leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of prison healthcare challenges.

Responsibilities

• Oversee healthcare service delivery at HMP Woodhill.
• Manage performance, quality, and budget for healthcare services.
• Lead and direct the healthcare team.

Skills

Leadership

Budget Management

Stakeholder Management

Presentation Skills

Negotiation

Education

Registered Nurse or equivalent professional qualification

Degree level education or equivalent

Management Qualification

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Head of Healthcare HMP Woodhill

The closing date is 14 July 2025

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Healthcare to lead and advance our healthcare services at HMP Woodhill.

Key Responsibilities:

Oversee the delivery of high-quality, responsive healthcare services across HMP Woodhill.

Ensure compliance with clinical and financial governance frameworks.

Manage the annual revenue budget and ensure performance, quality, and integration in all aspects of healthcare delivery, including sub-contracted services.

Main duties of the job

About You:

A highly energetic healthcare professional with a robust leadership background.

Proven track record of delivering high-quality services at a senior level in the NHS, prison healthcare, social care, or the private sector.

A visible and present leader committed to team working and a culture of learning and quality improvement

Skilled in leading a diverse, multi-disciplinary healthcare team.

Knowledgeable about the unique challenges of prison healthcare and the needs of its patient group.

Experience in partnership working and stakeholder management

Committed to modernising and developing services to meet the needs of the men residing in the prison.

Strategic Leadership:

Oversee various projects, including service re-design.

Ensure all aspects of the healthcare service meet the detailed healthcare specifications.

The successful candidate will embody the CNWL vision and values, including practising SCARF principles.

About us

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities.

The post holder will have responsibility for the management and delivery of health services within HMP Woodhill. The post holder will work with the Deputy Director and HJS Service Directors to ensure that the strategic direction as defined within the service is effectively implemented at operational level. To lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies. The post holder will direct, monitor and co-ordinate the work of the healthcare team and be responsible for the delivery, performance and effectiveness of the service. Through inspirational leadership, the post holder will lead in the development of future plans, standards and systems for secure settings health services.

Person Specification

Education and Qalification Criteria

• Registered Nurse or any other professional qualification with post registration experience
• Educated to degree level or above or equivalent.
• Management Qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills and Knowledge

• Encourages rigour and provides critical challenge in determining outcomes; Presents data and conclusions in a logical and defensible way and undertakes robust risk and impact management; seeks others' views to test own thinking
• Sensitive to complex political and organisational issues; weighs up available information and applies sound and timely judgement; considers consequences, impacts and implications; decisive in times of change, challenge and ambiguity
• Builds rapport through consistent, confident and open communication style; routinely checks for understanding to test receipt of messages; energises, convinces and persuades; encourages honesty of message
• Awareness of, and works collaboratively with key decision makers in area of operation; promotes partnership and collaborative working within teams; demonstrates the ability to seek out and harness the views and contributions of others
• Champions measurable achievement of outcomes; makes best use of diverse talent, capabilities and technologies to achieve optimum results; recognises and recovers under delivery; negotiates the prioritisation of work targets and resources
• Understands external context at national and local level; translates context and purpose to enable teams to see their contribution; encourages teams to consider innovative approaches and review applicability to working environment
• Excellent presentation skills

Previous Experience

• Experience of a senior management position within healthcare services
• Proven experience and achievement in managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians
• Experience of organising and chairing steering groups
• Experience of policy development and strategic planning and clinical governance development, resulting in change management projects/programmes
• Experience of successful inter-agency partnership working
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts with the approval of the Director
• Experience of working within statutory and other regulatory frameworks within which health and social care services operate and translating these at an operational level
• Experience of developing programmes designed to improve user carer involvement
• Experience of managing a diverse workforce
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts with the approval of the Director
• Some experience and understanding of a criminal justice setting
• Knows own strengths and weaknesses and empowers others to ensure goals are achieved; adopts a 'can do' approach
• Demonstrates resilience; recognises the anxieties of others and helps them to manage appropriately
• Has a strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£62,215 to £72,293 a yearper annum (pro rata if P/T)