Head of Healthcare - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Job summaryCentral 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

Head of Healthcare

to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health and Justice team at

HMP/YOI Bronzefield .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\u2019s 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.Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams: CNWL Health and Justice: find out what it\u2019s like to work in Health and Justice

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESPrincipal Duties:

To lead in the planning and development of healthcare within the Female/Male Service Line.

The post holder will work with the Prison Governor and the Health and Justice Senior Management within CNWL to manage the delivery of high quality healthcare. This will include informing service specifications and monitoring outcomes and ensuring key performance indicators are monitored and met.

To manage health care services, developing and maintaining effective systems for performance and quality management in response to legislation, national priorities and National Service Frameworks, taking remedial action where necessary. This will include taking action required to improve service delivery and reporting these to the Health and Justice Head of Female/Male Service Line and the Prison Governor.

To monitor and review any sub-contracted services and make recommendations regarding changes and improvements to the service level agreements.

To actively promote equality issues in day to day activities and standards of practice across health services within a prison setting.

To ensure a whole systems approach to the delivery of healthcare within a prison setting.

To participate actively in the partnership agenda.

To manage and monitor allocated budgets in accordance with Financial Regulations ensuring value for money and adherence to expenditure limits and to ensure that service and financial performance is regularly reviewed.

To ensure that Clinical Governance is a key component of all services and informs all action plans. This will include demonstrating the continuous improvement of services provided to meet prison population needs.

Maintain and develop healthcare services that ensure all elements of the service delivery are compliant with the Healthcare Commission Standards; this will include infection control standards.

To manage the services in such a way as to minimise risk to the health and safety of all staff and prisoners. This will include ensuring all agreed policies and procedures are implemented.

About usCentral and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

Monthly supervision

Annual personal development plans/appraisals

Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.

Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:

Preceptorship Programme

Support and guidance with Revalidation

Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

Health and wellbeing services

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Relocation package *subject to meeting criteria*

The trust also values its staff, and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

All our prison sites offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.

DetailsDate posted: 29 August 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £66,653 to £77,094 a year per annum inc. HCAS (pro rata if P/T)

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 333-D-HJ-1834-A

Job location: HMP/YOI Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZ

Person SpecificationEducation and Qualification

Registered Nurse or any other professional qualification with post registration experience

Educated to degree level or above or equivalent

Desirable

Management Qualification

Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Experience of a senior management position within healthcare services or equivalent

Proven experience and achievement in managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians

Experience of organising and chairing steering groups

Experience in writing business cases

Experience of policy development and strategic planning and clinical governance development, resulting in change management projects/programmes

Experience of successful inter-agency partnership working

Experience of working with statutory and other regulatory frameworks within which health and social care services operate and translating these at an operational level

Experience of developing programmes designed to improve user/carer involvement

Experience of managing a diverse workforce

Desirable

Some experience and understanding of a criminal justice/secure health or education setting

Ability to negotiate complex contracts with the approval of the Director

Skills and Knowledge

Encourages rigour and provides critical challenge in determining outcomes; presents data and conclusions in a logical and defensible way and undertakes robust risk and impact management; seeks others\'' views to test own thinking.

Sensitive to complex political and organisational issues; weighs up available information and applies sound and timely judgement; considers consequences; impacts and implications; decisive in times of change, challenges and ambiguity

Builds rapport through consistent, confident and open communication style; routinely checks for understanding to test receipt of messages; energises, convinces and persuades; encourages honesty of message

Ability to organise workload, adjust priorities in line with the Trust, Division and Service Line needs and meet set deadlines consistently.

Awareness of, and works collaboratively with key decision makers in area of operation; promotes partnership and collaborative working within teams; demonstrates the ability to seek out and harness the views and contributions of others

Champions measurable achievement of outcomes; makes best use of diverse talent, capabilities and technologies to achieve optimum results; recognises and recovers under delivery; negotiates the prioritisation of work targets and resources

Understands external context at national and local level; translates context and purpose to enable teams to see their contribution; encourages teams to consider innovative approaches and review applicability to working environment

Excellent presentation skills

Presents data and conclusions in logical and defensible way and undertakes robust risk and impact management; seeks others\'' views to test own thinking

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Knows own strengths and weaknesses and empowers others to ensure goals are achieved; adopts a "can do" approach

Demonstrates resilience; recognises the anxieties of others and helps them to manage appropriately.

Has a strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, HMP/YOI Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZ

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