Mental Health Clinical Lead Portland

Job summary Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to undertake a fixed-term opportunity as our Mental Health Clinical Lead to cover maternity leave. Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Main duties of the job The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
• Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required
• Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development
• To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget
• To actively manage a small caseload of patient
• To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational polic
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decision
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation

About us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're KindWe're FairWe ListenWe Care

Details

Date posted: 11 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata p.a.

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 9 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 277-8110176-PORT-A

Job locations: HMP Portland, 104 The Grove, Portland, DT5 1DL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients.
• Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required.
• Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development.
• To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place.
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budgets
• To actively manage a small caseload of patients
• To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards.
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies
• To ensure staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development and have access to the necessary professional training.
• Work with other Offender Healthcare teams across the Trust as required.
• To ensure robust service to carers, including assessment and support
• Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience

Desirable

• Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.

Experience Essential

• Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience
• Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
• Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies

Skills Essential

• Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care
• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address: HMP Portland, 104 The Grove, Portland, DT5 1DL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Head of Healthcare, Suraj Persand, s.persand@nhs.net