Job summary
Clinical Lead (Band 7) HMP Norwich | Healthcare Services Are you an experienced, motivated and compassionate clinical leader looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference? We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Clinical Lead (Band 7) to join our dedicated healthcare team at HMP Norwich.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to provide clinical leadership, drive high standards of patient-centred care and support the delivery of safe, effective and responsive healthcare services within a challenging yet rewarding custodial environment.

The Clinical Lead is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership across Primary.Healthcare services within a Category B prison, ensuring the safe, effective and responsive delivery of healthcare services to patients within a secure environment.

The post holder will provide direct oversight of:

• Reception Healthcare Services
• Primary Care Nursing Services
• Day Care Services
• Long-Term Conditions Management
• Emergency Response and Clinical Escalation
• Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement

The Clinical Lead will provide professional nursing leadership, workforce management, clinical assurance and service development whilst ensuring compliance with NHS England requirements, HMPPS standards, CQC regulations and HCRG policies.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification
Essential:

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of leadership and management development.
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or equivalent.
• Significant post-registration nursing experience.
• Experience working within Primary Care, Community Healthcare, Urgent Care or Prison Healthcare.
• Experience managing teams and clinical services.
• Experience leading investigations and managing risk.
• Experience of clinical governance and quality improvement.
• Experience of workforce management and operational leadership.

Desirable:

• Prison Healthcare experience.
• Experience managing Reception Healthcare services.
• Experience managing Long-Term Condition pathways.
• Experience preparing services for CQC or HMIP inspection.
• Quality Improvement training or qualification.

Package Description
As a Clinical Lead you will be part of our valued team in our Prison Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback 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 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 ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're 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'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: HCRG Care Group
Address: HCRG Care Group, HMP Norwich, NR1 4LU, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment Team, HCRG Care Group, ask.hr@hcrgcaregroup.com

Details
Date posted: 13 November 2026
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 1575200431

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