Healthcare Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sheerness; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Healthcare Manager to provide clinical leadership within the prison healthcare system at HMP Standford Hill. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality patient-centred care and ensuring effective management of healthcare services for inmates. Ideal applicants will have extensive healthcare experience, particularly in prison settings, strong leadership skills, and be prepared to undertake National Security Vetting. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in a challenging environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-qualification experience with at least 3 years at Band 6 level.
• Experience in prison healthcare preferred.
• Knowledge of National Standards for Prison Healthcare and the Mental Health Act 1983.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and set quality standards.
• Lead clinical audit and professional development.
• Coordinate care for patients with complex needs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Clinical Audit

Patient-centred care

Education

Registered Nurse (RGN or RMN)

Post-graduate specialist skills

Job description

Healthcare Manager

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• Registered Nurse (RGN or RMN) with post‑registration experience; post‑graduate (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.

About Oxleas

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.

Values

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

Important Information

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.

You will need to provide:

• 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 that are not UK Passport holders who 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).

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This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026.