At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead healthcare services in a dynamic environment, ensuring high-quality care and compliance.
- Company: Join the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services in secure environments.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonuses, car allowance, and extensive professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Supportive team culture with career growth and 24/7 employee assistance.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare access while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in senior operational management within healthcare, ideally in complex environments.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 70000 £ per year.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Healthcare to join the team Gatwick IRC (Immigration Removal Centre) located in West Sussex next to the Gatwick airport.
Hours
The site currently offers Monday - Friday: core office hours.
Salary
This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary up to £70,000 per annum - depending on experience. 10% discretionary bonus & £4,000 car allowance. You will also receive a golden hello payment of £3,500 which is paid in 4 instalments, upon starting.
How will we support you?
Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course. Competency framework. Regional and national career development opportunities. Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs. Support from the wider team.
What you’ll be doing
As a Head of Healthcare your responsibilities will vary. You will:
- Provide strong operational leadership across all healthcare services (primary care, mental health and substance misuse) within the prison, ensuring consistent, high-quality care delivery.
- Take full responsibility for budget management, including planning, monitoring, and delivering services within financial constraints while ensuring value for money.
- Lead and embed a culture of clinical governance, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, policies, and best practice.
- Have strong stakeholder management and engagement experience.
- Oversee risk management, quality assurance, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
- Manage, support, and develop a multidisciplinary workforce, including performance management, workforce planning, and staff wellbeing.
- Act as a key liaison with prison leadership, commissioners, and external stakeholders to ensure integrated and effective service delivery.
- Maintain the strategic direction of the service, and deliver on agreed contractual requirements and targets from NHS England.
- Lead, develop and motivate your team to deliver the best service possible.
- Work closely with senior management within the prison, as well as the finance business partner and regional manager.
If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.
It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:
- Discounts on shopping and leisure activities.
- Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development.
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it.
What we’ll look for in you
The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background. Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:
- We treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated.
- We act with integrity.
- We embrace diversity.
- We strive to do things better together.
We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.
Qualifications, skills and experience required:
- Proven experience in a senior operational management role within healthcare, ideally in a secure, custodial, or similarly complex environment.
- Clinical or Non Clinical (operational) background.
- Strong and demonstrable budget management and financial oversight experience.
- In-depth understanding of clinical governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- A confident and credible leader with experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams.
- Resilient, adaptable, and able to work effectively within a challenging and highly regulated environment.
Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.
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