Primary Care Clinical Lead

Overview

In this role you lead the integrated primary care service within a custodial setting, shaping clinical delivery to meet prisoner health needs. You provide expert clinical leadership, guide service development and ensure safe, evidence-based care. You work with the Head of Healthcare and senior colleagues to drive governance, performance, and improvements. The position offers strategic influence across multidisciplinary teams to enhance health outcomes in a complex environment. A strong hook is the chance to transform prison healthcare through advanced practice and collaborative leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the primary care service to be responsive to prison health needs and integrate with mental health, medicines management, GP, dental, and wider care.
• Provide expert clinical advice, supervision and leadership to multidisciplinary staff; oversee clinical pathways, referrals and care planning.
• Support management of acute presentations, long-term conditions, health promotion, screening, immunisation and substance misuse treatment.
• Promote clinical governance through audit, risk management, incident review, evidence-based practice and service evaluation.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, performance management and resource use.
• Collaborate with prison colleagues, commissioners and community partners to ensure continuity of care in custody and on release.

Key requirements

• Registered healthcare professional with current registration
• Master’s-level Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or currently working towards completion
• Non-Medical Prescribing qualification, or currently working towards completion
• Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Significant post-registration experience within primary care and/or clinical substance misuse services
• At least three years’ management experience within a multidisciplinary healthcare environment
• Experience of service development, change management, clinical audit and quality improvement
• Desirable: experience delivering care within a prison, secure or similarly complex setting

• Strong clinical leadership and the ability to work autonomously
• Advanced assessment, diagnostic and clinical decision-making
• Governance, risk management and safeguarding awareness
• Advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment
• Prescribing and reviewing medication within scope
• Development and evaluation of evidence-based clinical pathways

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