Women’s Primary Care Clinical Lead - HMP Send

NHS; Egham; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Women's Primary Care Clinical Lead to join their Health & Justice team at HMP Send. The role involves delivering comprehensive women's health services, developing clinician-led initiatives, and working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary setting. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent leadership and clinical skills while managing a diverse caseload within a unique environment.

Benefits

Monthly supervision

Annual development plans

Free leisure facilities

Free parking for staff

Access to training opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Women's Health areas, including reproductive health and menopause.
• Experience in leading nurse-led clinics and managing complex cases.
• Ability to undertake cytology independently.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver, and evaluate clinical interventions for women's health.
• Lead the development and integration of women's health services.
• Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical care focused on women's health.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Negotiation skills

Knowledge of women's health

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Registered Adult Nurse

Degree level education or equivalent experience

PG Diploma in Women's Health or equivalent

V300 Independent Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Women’s Primary Care Clinical Lead - HMP Send

The closing date is 16 July 2025

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 Women's Primary Care Clinical Leadto join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Send.By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.

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.

We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.

Main duties of the job

The Women's Primary Care Clinical Lead will be focussing on Women's Health, and will be a Women's Health clinical expert who will work 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 Women's Health clinics utilising the Quality Outcome Framework and to further develop women specific services such as sexual and reproductive health, menopause and menstrual wellbeing, screening, weight management and health promotion.

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.

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 are also able to 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 you 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

Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and 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 patients with a range of womens health care needs, including menopause, screenings and reproductive health.
• Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust safeguarding policies.
• Provide brief Womens Health interventions - health education, advice and information - to patients and develop Womens Health promotion programmes to be delivered in partnership with the prison.
• Lead the development of Womens Health services. Provide specialist clinical advice, training and support to healthcare colleagues, including Mental Health Teams on the management of patients Womens Health needs.
• To provide comprehensive sexual health information, advice, teaching and support to patients enabling them to select and use a method of contraception suited to their needs.
• Apply local Risk Assessment and management protocols.
• Make appropriate referrals onto other womens health services. 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 womens health issues.
• Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused, integrated care and treatment programmes focussing on womens health.
• Work collaboratively with primary care staff to develop clinical services that deliver high quality nurse-led womens health specific clinics e.g. reproductive health, menopause and menstrual wellbeing, screening, clinics and health promotion initiatives.
• Hold a clinical caseload of those with complex Womens Health needs and requiring advanced intervention within Primary Care.
• To undertake non-medical prescribing duties following appropriate accredited training (this being entered on the relevant professional register) within agreed protocols.
• Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. prison, education staff to provide integrated and coordinated womens healthcare.
• Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team manager.
• Lead local audits to enhance quality of care for subjects around womens health.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse
• Educated to degree level or evidence of appropriate experience
• Extensive knowledge of Women's Health specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience.
• V300 Independent Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards

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 Nurse Led Clinics and holding a case load of complex cases
• Experience within a prison or low, medium or high security hospital setting.
• Experience of service development

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Up to date knowledge of primary care/ health frameworks and guidance for women in prison
• Able to undertake cytology independently
• Ability to support in building and developing teams of people, and to provide clinical leadership to a diverse workforce.
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
• Able to influence and use negotiation skills to manage differences constructively
• A demonstrable ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision
• Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to principles of equal opportunity, fair access and service user empowerment, and the ability to translate principles into practice
• Demonstrate professional integrity, and an ability to present the nursing viewpoint within appropriate meetings
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding practice for both vulnerable adults and children
• Basic word processing and spreadsheet skills
• Experience with using SystmOne (Clinical System)
• Demonstrate a positive 'can do' 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.

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

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearper annum inc. of HCAS fringe (pro rata if P/T)