Health and Justice Learning Hub Support (Secondment)
Job Description
Job summary
Do you have experience of working in the London prisons?
Are you passionate about delivering training and improving safety for people in the prison system?
A new and unique opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Clinician to join the London Health and Justice Learning Hub (HJLH) in a Support role, one day per week Secondment until the end of September 2026
This role will be part of the core team in the Health & Justice Learning Hub pilot. The HJLH is responsible for co-ordinating, enhancing and developing innovative approaches to learning across the London Prisons and criminal justice system pathways.
The HJLH's focus is on serious safety incidents, with a particular focus on deaths in custody (including harm to self and suicide), with the aim of learning from and improving the response to these. We are keen to work with someone who can draw on HJLH experience of the prison environment (in which these incidents happen) to support the HJLH team to better reach staff on the ground in prisons and to draw on their own experiences to improve all our learning responses. This will involve connecting with staff working across providers and agencies in and around the London prisons and wider Criminal Justice System to help incorporate all perspectives and best target learning responses.
The role will be based in the Gordon Hospital in London, but will also work across London Prison sites and other parts of the criminal justice system.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will:
Work as part of the core team to provide high quality educational opportunities, delivering a range of presentations, courses and workshops for staff
Participate in the development, evaluation and promotion of the HJLH
Link into existing forums in, and organisations working alongside, London Prisons and other parts of the Criminal Justice Pathway to understand the perspectives, priorities and experiences needed to shape the HJLH's approach.
Support engagement of clinical staff on the ground across providers in all key deliverables of the HJLH
About us
Working for our organisation - CNWL
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
In return we can offer:
- Flexible working
- Buy & Sell Annual Leave
- An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
- Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
- Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
- Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
- Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
- The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
- A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network Disabled Employees Network
- Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
- Carers at Work Network
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
- Salary sacrifice
Job responsibilities
Please note thatonly candidates who are currently employed or sub-contracted by one of the Healthcare providers working in London prisons (PPG, or one of the NHS Trusts - Oxleas, CNWL or North London) are eligible for shortlisting. Please make clear reference to your current professional experience in your online application in order to be considered for shortlisting.
See JD and Person Spec for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. Clinical qualification and continued registration relevant to the work of the HJLH (nursing, social work, psychology, OT, paramedic or other as discussed with Programme Director)
Desirable
- Health / Social Sciences degree.
Experience
Essential
- Significant Prison experience
- Experience working within the NHS or another Healthcare Provider
- Experience in project management. Experience of developing and delivering training
- Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice.
- Experience of team working.
- Experience of working autonomously and on own initiative
- Experience of delivering to deadlines.
- Experience of analysing, interpreting and presenting data.
- Experience of writing reports and presenting data to diverse audiences.
Desirable
- Experience of using statistical software packages, such as SPSS.
- Experience of designing databases.
- Experience of using questionnaire design packages.
- Experience of managing or supervising staff.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Ability to undertake clinical audit projects
- Ability to work in isolation but also as part of a team
- Interpersonal skills
- Analytical skills
- Able to write complex reports
- Communications skills including good presentation skills
- Managing complexity
- Prioritisation skills
- IT literate (intermediate level) in word, excel, power point
- Group working skills
- Facilitation
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Project management skills
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (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
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Gordon Hospital
London
SW1V 2RH
