Job overview

Are you ready to make a real difference in one of the most challenging and rewarding environments in healthcare? We are seeking a skilled, compassionate, and forward-thinking Senior Primary Care Practitioner to provide expert clinical and operational leadership within our prison healthcare service.

Working closely with the Head of Healthcare, you will oversee a multidisciplinary team of nurses, paramedics, and HCAs, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care in a fast-paced, high-risk setting. This is a key senior leadership post where you’ll shape services, support team development, and drive continuous improvement.

You’ll lead on QOF, long-term condition management, and Section 7a indicators, while embedding a trauma-informed, holistic model of care. You'll champion innovation, support safe and efficient service delivery, and promote continuity of care for patients through and beyond their time in custody.

This is a unique opportunity to influence outcomes at scale and develop as a clinical leader in a complex, secure environment.

Interviews will take place on 15th September face to face, at HMP Bristol.

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

Main duties of the job

Act as clinical lead for Primary Care, setting high standards of evidence-based, trauma-informed care. Deliver expert assessment, diagnosis and management of patients with complex and long-term conditions, prescribing independently using ACP/NMP qualifications. Coordinate daily service delivery and referral pathways, supporting the Head of Healthcare in managing a responsive, integrated team. Lead on care models aligned with QOF, Section 7a and national frameworks. Contribute to audits, evaluation and service improvement.

Provide clinical supervision, appraisals, and mentorship to support staff development. Delegate effectively while ensuring performance, compliance and quality standards are met. Foster multidisciplinary collaboration across primary care, mental health and external partners to deliver safe, joined-up care. Ensure continuity through effective care coordination and community service links pre- and post-release.

Drive improvement in health promotion, risk management, documentation and safeguarding. Lead or support quality initiatives aligned with national prison healthcare standards. Represent Primary Care in senior leadership forums, influencing strategy, policy and patient outcomes. Act as a visible role model within a complex and rewarding environment.

Working for our organisation

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