What you’ll do

• Bring specialist insight: advise on custody healthcare pathways, clinical interfaces, workforce needs and operational pressures, testing proposed models against the realities of delivery.
• Shape practical services: work with the Solutions Architect on assessment, escalation, referral and continuity of care, challenging assumptions and identifying risks early.
• Strengthen bids: contribute specialist content, evidence and case studies; review proposals for accuracy and authenticity; and support presentations, dialogue and clarifications.
• Build purposeful relationships: support engagement with commissioners, police stakeholders and health partners, representing Practice Plus Group at relevant events and forums while respecting confidentiality and procurement boundaries.
• Connect local pathways: help identify partners and interfaces across NHS, mental health, substance misuse, safeguarding, liaison and diversion, and urgent and emergency care services.
• Test delivery assumptions: work with Finance, Commercial, Workforce and Operations colleagues to assess staffing, resilience, mobilisation and the practical implications of design choices.
• Turn learning into improvement: capture market insight and bid feedback, build reusable evidence and share police custody knowledge across the team.

What you’ll bring

You will bring substantial recent experience of healthcare delivery, leadership, commissioning or service development within police custody, alongside practical understanding of custody operations and multidisciplinary working with police teams.

We’re looking for:

• Experience working with commissioners, police stakeholders or partner organisations, and contributing to service redesign, mobilisation, quality improvement or healthcare model development.
• Strong knowledge of custody healthcare pathways, operational risks and the physical health, mental health, substance misuse, vulnerability and safeguarding needs of people in custody.
• Understanding of NHS, integrated care system, criminal justice and community healthcare interfaces.
• The ability to turn operational knowledge into practical service-design recommendations and clear, persuasive proposal content.
• Excellent relationship-building, facilitation, influencing and communication skills, with the confidence to constructively challenge assumptions.
• Commercial awareness and confidence working with senior leaders and multidisciplinary bid teams.
• A relevant healthcare, criminal justice, commissioning or operational leadership qualification, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience supporting tenders, proposals, procurement dialogue or business development would be an advantage, as would relevant training in quality improvement, service design, project/change management or business development. Current or previous professional clinical registration is desirable where applicable, rather than an essential requirement.