Primary Care Clinical Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Shaftesbury; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with HMP Guys Marsh, seeks a Senior Primary Care Clinical Lead to shape and develop primary care and substance misuse services within a custodial setting. You will provide expert clinical leadership, oversee pathways, and supervise multidisciplinary teams, ensuring safe, evidence-based care and strong governance.

You may deputise for the Head of Healthcare and contribute to strategic planning.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with primary care experience.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or working towards one.
• Master's-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership and supervision to multidisciplinary staff.
• Lead and coordinate primary care services within the custodial setting, ensuring integrated care.
• Oversee clinical pathways, referrals and care planning; manage acute presentations and long-term conditions.
• Promote clinical governance through audit, risk management, and service evaluation; support workforce planning.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary supervision

Audit and governance

Strategic workforce planning

Education

Non-medical prescribing qualification

Master's-level Advanced Clinical Practice

Job description

Are you an experienced senior nurse or advanced clinical practitioner looking for an opportunity to lead and develop high-quality healthcare within a custodial setting?

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Primary Care Clinical Lead to join the integrated healthcare team at HMP Guys Marsh. This is a senior clinical leadership role with responsibility for the delivery and development of primary care and clinical substance misuse services.

Working closely with the Head of Healthcare, you will provide expert clinical leadership, support the day-to-day management of services and help ensure that patients receive safe, effective and evidence-based care. You will also contribute to the wider senior leadership team and deputise for the Head of Healthcare when required.

Applicants should be a registered healthcare professional with significant primary care experience, a non-medical prescribing qualification or be working towards one, and hold or be completing a master's-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.

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

You will lead and coordinate the primary care service, ensuring that care is responsive to the needs of the prison population and integrated with mental health, medicines management, GP, dental and wider healthcare provision.

The role includes providing expert clinical advice, supervision and leadership to multidisciplinary staff; overseeing clinical pathways, referrals and care planning; and supporting the effective management of acute presentations, long‑term conditions, health promotion, screening, immunisation and substance misuse treatment.

You will promote strong clinical governance through audit, risk management, incident review, evidence-based practice and service evaluation. You will also support workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, performance management and the effective use of resources.

Working with prison colleagues, commissioners, community services and other partner organisations, you will help ensure continuity of care throughout custody and on release.

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're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Danielle Blackmore Job title: Head of Healthcare Email address: [e-mail]