Healthcare Manager

NHS; Sheerness, Eastchurch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Healthcare Manager for an integrated prison healthcare service. This role demands a Registered Nurse with substantial experience, impeccable leadership skills, and a solid understanding of prison healthcare practices. Responsibilities include clinical leadership, coordinating care for complex individuals, and ensuring adherence to health standards. Ideal candidates will possess post-graduate qualifications and a passion for promoting health within a secure setting, coupled with a collaborative spirit across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-qualification experience including 3+ years at Band 6 level.
• Postgraduate specialist skills in primary care interventions and long-term condition management.
• Sound knowledge of National Standards for Prison Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and set quality standards.
• Lead clinical audit and professional development across the team.
• Coordinate MDT pathways and referral triage.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Change Management

Education

Registered General Nurse or Registered Mental Health Nurse

Post-graduate Qualification to Masters level

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

Main duties of the job

• 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.

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• You will need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN or RMN) with post‑registration experience; postgraduate (Masters or equivalent) specialist skills in primary care interventions, long‑term condition management and vaccination preferred.
• 5+ years post‑qualification, including 3+ years at Band 6 or equivalent senior level. Prison healthcare experience and staff management experience are advantageous.
• Strong leadership, change management and communication skills; able to influence, empower and work autonomously.
• Sound knowledge of National Standards for Prison Healthcare, relevant National Service Frameworks, the Criminal Justice System and the Mental Health Act 1983. Comfortable working in a secure setting, managing complex and challenging behaviour, and promoting recovery and resilience.

Important information for applicants

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.

• 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.
• 5 years address history will be needed.
• Applicants who are not UK Passport holders and 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).

Education / Qualifications

• Professional Qualification: Registered General Nurse or Registered/Mental Health Nurse.
• Post‑graduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of primary care interventions, long‑term disease management, vaccination etc.

Experience

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

Skills

• 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.