Health and Justice Learning Hub Support (Secondment)

Health and Justice Learning Hub Support (Secondment)

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have experience of working in the London prisons?

Are you passionate about delivering training and improving safety for people in the prison system?

A new and unique opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Clinician to join the London Health and Justice Learning Hub (HJLH) in a Support role, one day per week Secondment until the end of September 2026.

This role will be part of the core team in the Health & Justice Learning Hub pilot. The HJLH is responsible for co-ordinating, enhancing and developing innovative approaches to learning across the London Prisons and criminal justice system pathways.

The HJLH's focus is on serious safety incidents, particularly deaths in custody (including harm to self and suicide), with the aim of learning from and improving the response to these. We are keen to work with someone who can draw on HJLH experience in the prison environment to support the HJLH team to better reach staff on the ground in prisons and to draw on their own experiences to improve our learning responses. This will involve connecting with staff working across providers and agencies in and around the London prisons and wider Criminal Justice System to help incorporate all perspectives and best target learning responses.

The role will be based in the Gordon Hospital in London, but will also work across London Prison sites and other parts of the criminal justice system.

Main Duties of the Job

The postholder will:

• Work as part of the core team to provide high quality educational opportunities, delivering a range of presentations, courses and workshops for staff.
• Participate in the development, evaluation and promotion of the HJLH.
• Link into existing forums in, and organisations working alongside, London Prisons and other parts of the Criminal Justice Pathway to understand the perspectives, priorities and experiences needed to shape the HJLH's approach.
• Support engagement of clinical staff on the ground across providers in all key deliverables of the HJLH.

About Us

Working for our organisation - 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 in our healthcare settings.

In return we can offer:

• Buy & Sell Annual Leave
• An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
• Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life.
• Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems.
• Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff.
• Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes.
• The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff.
• A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network, Disabled Employees Network, Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network, Carers at Work Network, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME).
• Salary sacrifice.

Job Responsibilities

Please note that only candidates who are currently employed or sub-contracted by one of the Healthcare providers working in London prisons (PPG, or one of the NHS Trusts - Oxleas, CNWL or North London) are eligible for shortlisting. Please make clear reference to your current professional experience in your online application in order to be considered for shortlisting.

See JD and Person Spec for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. Clinical qualification and continued registration relevant to the work of the HJLH (nursing, social work, psychology, OT, paramedic or other as discussed with Programme Director).

Experience

• Experience working within the NHS or another Healthcare Provider.
• Experience in project management and developing and delivering training.
• Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice.
• Experience of team working.
• Experience of working autonomously and on own initiative.
• Experience of delivering to deadlines.
• Experience of analysing, interpreting and presenting data.
• Experience of writing reports and presenting data to diverse audiences.
• Experience of using statistical software packages, such as SPSS.
• Experience of designing databases.
• Experience of managing or supervising staff.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to undertake clinical audit projects.
• Ability to work in isolation but also as part of a team.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Able to write complex reports.
• Communication skills including good presentation skills.
• Managing complexity.
• Facilitation.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.

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

£44,806 to £53,134 a year per annum pro rata inc HCAS.