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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Primary Care Clinical Lead

The closing date is 08 November 2026

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Job summary

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Primary Care Clinical Lead to lead the delivery and ongoing development of high-quality primary care services within our prison healthcare setting in Bristol. This is an opportunity to combine clinical leadership, operational management and service improvement in a challenging and rewarding environment where your work will directly improve patient care and outcomes.

Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, you will provide visible and supportive leadership to nursing, paramedic and wider healthcare colleagues. You will help ensure that services are safe, effective, efficient and responsive to the needs of patients, while maintaining strong working relationships with prison colleagues, partner organisations and community services.

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

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will provide clinical and operational leadership for the primary care service. You will manage, support, supervise and appraise staff, promoting professional development and high standards of practice, while coordinating staffing and rotas to support safe, efficient and timely service delivery.

You will oversee referral, triage, care coordination and clinical review processes, maintain a small clinical caseload and provide evidence-based care for patients with acute, complex and long-term health needs.

You will also lead quality improvement, clinical audit and service evaluation activity, monitor performance, patient safety and standards of care, and take action where improvements are required. Working collaboratively with HMPPS, healthcare partners, community providers and other statutory and voluntary agencies, you will support integrated care and continuity of treatment.

About us

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

Details

Date posted

28 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-8390879-BRIS

Job locations

HMP Bristol

Bristol

BS7 8PS

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

• The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service.

• To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders.

• Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues.

• Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.

• Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.

• Provide a range of quality services and intervention.

• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway

Management responsibilities

• To play a lead role in the on-going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.

• To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.

• Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.

• Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed

Leadership

• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisals.

• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.

• To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice

Clinical

• The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatient manager and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

• To manage a clinical caseload.

• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offenders care pathway whilst detained in prison

Research

• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.

• To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

Communication

• To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.

• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.

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 photographicID

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).

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

• The post holder will act as clinical lead in the inpatient service.

• To provide quality primary care interventions to offenders.

• Provide direct line management, leadership and support to junior colleagues.

• Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.

• Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.

• Provide a range of quality services and intervention.

• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway

Management responsibilities

• To play a lead role in the on-going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.

• To be responsible for rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.

• Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.

• Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed

Leadership

• Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisals.

• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.

• To lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice

Clinical

• The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the supervision of the Inpatient manager and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

• To manage a clinical caseload.

• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offenders care pathway whilst detained in prison

Research

• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.

• To participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

Communication

• To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.

• Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.

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 photographicID

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

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult/General)
• Post graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-qualification practice
• Demonstrates senior management level or supervisory role including managing change and introducing new ways of working.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Desirable

• Experience of working within secure & prison settings
• Working knowledge of current issues and agendas facing prison/offender healthcare

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult/General)
• Post graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-qualification practice
• Demonstrates senior management level or supervisory role including managing change and introducing new ways of working.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Desirable

• Experience of working within secure & prison settings
• Working knowledge of current issues and agendas facing prison/offender healthcare

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Bristol

Bristol

BS7 8PS

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Bristol

Bristol

BS7 8PS

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Healthcare

Tina Johnson

[email protected]

Details

Date posted

28 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-8390879-BRIS

Job locations

HMP Bristol

Bristol

BS7 8PS

United Kingdom

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