Head of Integrated Healthcare

We are looking for an experienced and inspiring Head of Integrated Healthcare to lead and shape the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate healthcare within a prison environment. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for ensuring that healthcare services operate to the highest standards and remain a trusted and constructive partner within the wider prison establishment.

The postholder will provide both operational and strategic direction, lead the Heads of Department and act as the key link between the healthcare service and the prisons senior leadership team. Success in this role depends on clear accountability, confident leadership, strong partnership working and a genuine commitment to patient dignity and quality of care.

You will carry overall responsibility for service performance, governance, workforce culture and the effectiveness of relationships across the healthcare and custodial system.

Please note: if interest and application volume is high, we may close this early.

Main duties of the job

In this senior leadership role, you will ensure the delivery of safe, effective and responsive healthcare within a complex prison environment. You will set clear operational and strategic direction, maintain oversight of performance and risk, and ensure services meet national and commissioning expectations.

You will lead and support Heads of Department, strengthen multidisciplinary working and ensure governance processes remain robust, transparent and focused on learning. The role also requires strong partnership working with the Prison Governor and custodial leaders, maintaining clear boundaries while promoting collaborative problem solving.

You will oversee subcontracted services to ensure quality and accountability, and you will shape a positive workforce culture that prioritises openness, psychological safety and continuous improvement. As the CQC Registered Manager, you will act as the senior point of contact for regulators and commissioners, leading inspection readiness and representing the service with professionalism.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we will need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we would love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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Job responsibilities

As a Head of Integrated Healthcare, you'll be part of our valued team based at HMP Chelmsford. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £60,000 - £65,000 with access to our group pension
• A £5,000 welcome bonus, paid in two stages: 25% after probation and 75% after one year
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cash back and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

The Ideal Candidate

• Senior healthcare leadership experience.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of governance and risk.
• Partnership and stakeholder management experience.
• Ability to operate in high pressure environments.
• Experience in secure or complex settings.
• Experience managing subcontracted services.

Person Specification 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.