Deputy Head of Healthcare

Job Advert Skip to main content Cookies on NHS Jobs We've put some small files called cookies on your device to help us make improvements to our site. To improve our site we'd also like to use cookies which will send information to Google Analytics. You can read more about our cookies before you choose. Accept analytics cookies Do not accept analytics cookies Jobs Menu Sign in Create an account English Cymraeg Menu Close menu Search Sign in Create an account Display in Welsh (Cymraeg) Search Sign in Create an account Display in Welsh (Cymraeg) BETA Your feedback will help us to improve this service. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Deputy Head of Healthcare The closing date is 10 November 2026 Apply for this job Job summary An exciting opportunity for a Deputy Head of Healthcare at HMP Wandsworth has become available to work alongside the Head of Healthcare and Senior Management Team. The post holder will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of all clinical services across the prison and deputise for them in their absence You will be accountable and manage a multi-disciplinary team that includes leading the mental health, primary care, substance misuse nursing, pharmacy and administration services, and work closely with partners to ensure the smooth running of all other services (GP services, optometry, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry, sexual health, drug & alcohol & IAPT services to the establishment). The post holder will need to act up in the absence of the Head of Healthcare and needs to be flexible and willing to cross cover areas depending on service needs. This role is based on site at HMP Wandsworth Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. Main duties of the job The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role. To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership , alongside the Head of Healthcare, and oversight of acute & primary care, long term conditions management, substance misuse services, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks. To establish and provide robust expert nursing clinical leadership to the healthcare team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis. 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 Londo