Head of Healthcare – HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Head of Healthcare – HMP/YOI Bronzefield

The closing date is 25 June 2026

Central 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. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Head of Healthcare to join our forward‑thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP/YOI Bronzefield.

As part of our Prisons Health Care Team you will look after the healthcare needs of patients residing in secure environments and have a real impact on promoting health and wellbeing. Our services operate on a 7‑day week working model, ensuring patient care is managed to the highest standards.

Main duties of the job

• Manage and deliver health services within HMP Bronzefield as part of the Health and Justice Service Line.
• Work with the Deputy Director & Health & Justice Service Directors to ensure that the strategic direction is implemented at the operational level.
• Lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies.
• Direct, monitor and co‑ordinate the work of the healthcare team, delivering performance and effectiveness of the service.
• Lead the development of future plans, standards and systems for secure settings health services, working collaboratively with local NHSE Commissioner Team, PHE, the Prison Governor and Leadership Team.
• Manage healthcare budgets and ensure services are delivered according to commissioned requirements, including managing contracts with sub‑contracted services.
• Deliver robust financial management in line with Service, Divisional and Trust targets, including realistic Cost Improvement Programmes (CIP).
• Ensure staffing levels and skill mix meet the needs of the service within financial constraints.
• Investigate complaints and liaise with service users/carers.

Job responsibilities

• Lead planning and development of healthcare within the Female/Male Service Line.
• Work with the Prison Governor and Health & Justice Senior Management to manage delivery of high‑quality healthcare, inform service specifications, monitor outcomes and ensure KPI achievement.
• Manage health care services, develop and maintain effective systems for performance and quality management, responding to legislation, national priorities and National Service Frameworks, taking remedial action where necessary.
• Monitor and review sub‑contracted services and recommend changes or improvements to service level agreements.
• Actively promote equality issues in day‑to‑day activities and standards of practice.
• Ensure a whole‑systems approach to the delivery of healthcare within a prison setting.
• Participate actively in the partnership agenda.
• Manage and monitor allocated budgets in accordance with Financial Regulations, ensuring value for money and adherence to expenditure limits.
• Ensure Clinical Governance is a key component of all services, informing all action plans and continuous improvement.
• Maintain and develop services in compliance with Healthcare Commission Standards, including infection control.
• Manage services to minimise risk to the health and safety of all staff and prisoners, implementing agreed policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

• Registered Nurse or any other professional qualification with post‑registration experience.
• Educated to degree level or above, or equivalent.
• Management qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

• Experience in 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 of policy development, strategic planning and clinical governance, leading change management projects/programmes.
• Experience of successful inter‑agency partnership working.
• Experience of working with statutory and other regulatory frameworks and translating these at an operational level.
• Experience of developing programmes designed to improve user/carer involvement.
• Experience of managing a diverse workforce.
• Some experience and understanding of a criminal justice/secure health or education setting.
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts with director approval.

Skills & Knowledge

• Encourages rigour and provides critical challenge in determining outcomes.
• Sensitive to complex political and organisational issues; applies sound judgement and considers consequences and implications.
• Builds rapport through consistent, confident and open communication; energises, convinces and persuades; encourages honesty of message.
• Organises workload, adjusts priorities and meets deadlines consistently.
• Collaborates with key decision makers, promotes partnership and seeks contributions of others.
• Champions measurable achievement of outcomes; utilises diverse talent and technologies for optimum results.
• Understand external context at national and local level; translates context for teams.
• Presents data and conclusions logically and defensibly, undertaking robust risk and impact management.
• Knows own strengths and weaknesses; empowers others to achieve goals; adopts a ‘can‑do’ approach.
• Demonstrates resilience and helps others manage anxieties.
• Strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards.

Other

• Understand and implement equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
• Promote and work within a 7‑day‑a‑week service model.
• Promote anti‑discriminatory and anti‑racist practices.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£68,852 to £79,638 a year per annum inc. HCAS (pro rata if P/T).

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