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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.

As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk

(source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)

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Address: 350 Euston Road; Regent's Place; London; London; NW1 3AX
Contact Number: 02032145700

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Ref: 333-D-HJ-1834 Vacancy ID: 7347316

Head of Healthcare - HMP/YOI Bronzefield

Closed for applications on: 4-Aug-2025 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 4-Aug-2025 00:02

Location

Site: HMP/YOI Bronzefield
Address: Woodthorpe Road
Town: Ashford, Middlesex
Postcode: TW15 3JZ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Health & Justice Services work to a 7-day working week.)

Salary

Salary: £66,653 - £77,094 per annum inc. HCAS ( pro rata if P/T)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8b)

Specialty

Main area: Health & Justice Services

Interview date: 19/08/2025

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Principal 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 & 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 & 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 complaint 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.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse or any other professional qualification with post registration experience
Educated to degree level or above or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

Management Qualification
Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

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 programme designed to improve user/carer involvement
Experience of managing a diverse workforce

Desirable criteria

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 & Knowledge

Essential criteria

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 rappour 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 are 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 if 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

Essential criteria

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.

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Traceyanne Hughes

Job title

HJS Deputy Director Operations South

Email address

[email protected]

Additional information

Additional contact: Kirstie Sheehan; Interim Head of Healthcare
[email protected]

We are a friendly team and encourage any prospective candidate to contact us with any questions and/or to book an informal visit.

You can also find more information on our services and the work we do within the Health & Justice Directorate please do look at our new website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice

Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.