Healthcare Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Eastchurch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Eastchurch is seeking a Healthcare Manager to lead the integrated prison healthcare service. You will be responsible for clinical leadership, quality standards, and delivering patient-centered care. This role involves managing a multidisciplinary team and coordinating complex care pathways, ensuring robust risk assessments and health promotion efforts. The ideal candidate will have relevant clinical qualifications and experience in mental health and primary care. This position fosters collaboration with external partners to ensure seamless care delivery.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Professional development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Visible clinical leader with experience in integrated healthcare.
• Ability to manage complex needs and lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong understanding of mental health and primary care services.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day clinical leadership within the prison healthcare service.
• Lead clinical audit and professional development across the healthcare team.
• Coordinate care pathways and maintain continuity from reception to discharge.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Patient-centered care

Collaboration with MDT

Education

Relevant clinical qualification

Job description

As our Healthcare Manager, you’ll be a visible clinical leader and expert practitioner within the integrated prison healthcare service at HMP Standford Hill.

You’ll support the Head of Healthcare to design, deliver, audit and evaluate a nurse‑led, integrated primary care and mental health service—grounded in evidence‑based practice and a stepped‑care approach. You’ll coach and develop colleagues, coordinate care for people with complex needs, and ensure robust risk assessment, health promotion, vaccination uptake, and long‑term condition management across the establishment.

Important Sponsorship Information

We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

• Provide day‑to‑day clinical leadership; set quality standards and drive outcome‑focused practice.
• Lead clinical audit, supervision, appraisal, and professional development across the team.
• Ensure consistent, patient‑centred care planning (including CPA) and single integrated care plans, with regular needs‑led reviews.
• Champion health promotion, screening, vaccinations and oral health, embedding prevention throughout the service.
• Coordinate MDT pathways and referral triage; maintain continuity of care from reception to release/discharge.
• Build strong interfaces with prison departments and external partners (e.g., GPs, CMHTs, probation, courts, housing/benefits) to deliver seamless care.
• Uphold custodial responsibilities, safety and security protocols, and incident reporting requirements in a secure environment.

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

Our Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Clare Denny
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07504877653