Primary Care Clinical Team Lead - HMP High Down

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is looking for a Primary Care Clinical Team Lead to manage the nursing team at HMP High Down. The role requires expertise in leading clinical services, fostering team collaboration, and managing patient care in a secure environment. Ideal candidates will hold relevant healthcare qualifications and have experience in multi-disciplinary settings. You will have opportunities for professional development and make a meaningful impact on health outcomes for a diverse patient population.

Benefits

Free onsite leisure facilities

Support for ongoing training

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills and experience in managing a nursing team.
• Ability to effectively manage clinical interventions and quality assurance.
• Familiarity with safeguarding practices in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Primary Care nursing team to deliver high-quality healthcare.
• Plan, deliver, and evaluate clinical interventions for diverse patient needs.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to enhance service provision.

Skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Performance management

Education

Registered Healthcare Professional

Non medical prescriber

Job description

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care Clinical Team Lead - HMP High Down

The closing date is 25 January 2026

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Primary Care Clinical Team Lead to join our forward-thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP High Down.

By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health and well-being.

Our motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice/find-out-what-its-work-health-and-justice

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Team Leader is a clinical expert who will lead the Primary Care nursing team to achieve a targeted and appropriate service, delivered in accordance with evidence-based practice and local policies and procedures. The post holder is expected to deliver care in a range of nurse-led clinics utilising the Quality Outcome Framework and to further develop services such as long-term conditions management, nurse-led minor ailment clinics and immunisation programmes.

The post holder will demonstrate a professional manner which is tolerant, courteous and calm in the full course of their duties, in relation to dealing with colleagues, visitors and patients. They will be able to effectively deal with all patients in a professional, nonreactive manner and diffuse potentially volatile situations to avoid escalation.

They will be expected to demonstrate a full and proactive commitment to equal opportunities in accordance with local and national policies.

The post holder will continually promote high standards of service within the Primary Care nursing team, effectively manage poor performance and contribute to the development of a culture of professionalism within the team.

The post holder will work closely with the Primary Care Lead and other Healthcare managers to develop and implement an effective Primary Care Strategy.

About us

Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. We also offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across our services.

Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.

We have a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within your career within Health & Justice.

We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:

Induction programme

Career coaching

Clinical supervision

Reflective Practice

Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates

NHS Leadership Academy leadership course

Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies

External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice

All our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence based models
• Set up processes/protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for all patients with a range of physical health care needs, including those who may also have mental health and/or substance misuse needs.
• Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust safeguarding policies.
• Provide brief interventions - health education, advice and information - to patients and develop Health promotion programmes to be delivered in partnership with the prison.
• Provide specialist clinical advice, training and support to nursing colleagues on the management of patients.
• Apply local Risk Assessment and management protocols.
• Make appropriate referrals to other services for long term or complex care management e.g. detox, counselling, psychology.
• Advise Primary care nursing staff and GPs on medication issues, promote adherence to local medication policies/protocols and compliance with legal and professional standards.
• Possess knowledge of the security implications of medicines within Health & Justice Services.
• Monitor the on-going health status of patients and address identified issues.
• Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused, integrated care and treatment programmes.
• Work collaboratively with primary care staff to develop clinical services that deliver high quality nurse-led clinics e.g. minor ailments, chronic disease clinics and health promotion initiatives.
• Use highly skilled interventions to de-escalate aggressive patient behaviours and be aware of the appropriate processes for dealing with them.
• Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. prison, education staff to provide integrated and coordinated care.
• Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team manager.
• Lead local audits and participate in trust audits to enhance quality of care.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

• Registered Healthcare Professional
• Non medical prescriber

Other

• The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job
• Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices.
• Demonstrate a resilient attitude despite the challenges of any given situation.
• Demonstrate the ability to weigh up situations and consider the benefits and problems before decisions are made
• Demonstrable ability to plan and implement change in the service and ensure the involvement of the workforce in the programme of change.

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrable ability to performance manage staff to meet key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance targets.
• Ability to identify problems and use initiative and creativity in problem solving
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally, presenting ideas with clarity, for a variety of audiences
• A demonstrable ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision.
• Ability to manage change
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding practice

Previous Experience

• Experience at Band 6 or equivalent in a multi- disciplinary staff team, including line management and supervision responsibilities
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration, including partnership working with other agencies.
• Experienced in involving service users in service planning and monitoring.
• Developing and running Clinics
• Experience of service development

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

£53,751 to £60,651 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)