Head of Healthcare

As a Head of Healthcare your responsibilities will vary. You will:

• Provide pro-active management of the healthcare services on site.  This will include maintaining the strategic direction of the service and delivering agreed contractual requirements and targets from NHS England.
• Be responsible for delivering a highly functional clinical service, within the budget, with support from the wider directorate team.
• Form part of the prison senior leadership team, working with other key stakeholders to ensure that the contract becomes highly functional, and healthcare services become fully embedded with the prison a whole.
• HMP Leeds is a busy Category B remand prison, with a healthcare workforce of over 90 staff. It is a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment characterised by constant prisoner admissions, transfers, releases, and court movements.
•  Ensure agreed standards are achieved by leading, developing and motivating your team ensuring they receive appropriate supervision and performance appraisal.
•  You will be the CQC registered manager and implement internal and external policies and procedures, particularly those with statutory implications. 

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• We treat patients and each other as they would like to be treated
• We act with integrity
• We embrace diversity
• We strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Degree or appropriate equivalent level of experience or clinical qualification
• Inclusive leadership approach embedding a culture of continuous progression and innovation
• Demonstratehigh levels of resilience, rapid decision-making, and the ability to work collaboratively with prison, healthcare, and external stakeholder teams to manage risk and deliver high-quality care
• Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
•  Strong presentation skills
• Ability to influence and deliver information to key partners and stakeholders
• Extensive experience in managing healthcare teams
• Experience as a CQC registered manager, or equivalent registered body
•  Experience of managing multifaceted budgets

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.