Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8am till 4pm)
- Job ref
- 277-7688822-STAN
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Standford Hill
- Town
- Eastchurch, Sheerness
- Salary
- £49,810 - £56,710 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Manager
Band 7
Job overview
Main duties of the job
- 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.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- You will need to be a 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.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
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.
Address History:
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).
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse Registered/ Mental health Nurse,)
- Post Graduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent specialist skills in the area of primary care interventions, long-term disease management, vaccination etc.
Experience
Essential criteria
- 5 years post qualification
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience at a Senior Nurse level (Band 6)
- Experience of managing staff
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a Senior level including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within prison settings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences.Ability to manage change and develop innovative ways of working.
- Ability to maintain a high profile within senior management structures
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Denny
- Job title
- Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07504877653
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