Team Lead - Prison Healthcare
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- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- 36
- Hours / week
- 36
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
NHS Highland is seeking an exceptional and compassionate Team Lead for Prison Healthcare to join an established multidisciplinary team. This role involves providing day-to-day clinical and operational leadership across Primary Care, Mental Health, and Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services within the prison environment. The successful candidate will work alongside the Service Manager to ensure safe, effective, and person-centred healthcare delivery, supporting staff development, service improvement, and patient safety. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team and help shape the future of prison healthcare, including transitioning into the newly built HMP Highland.
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £52,845 – £61,466 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
254369
Salary:
Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
Job closing date:
16/09/2026
Job Type:
Nursing and Midwifery
Location:
Porterfield H M Prison
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
36
Job posted date:
25/08/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Highland
Department:
HMP Inverness/HMP Highland Health Centre
Job Advert
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
NHS Highland is seeking an exceptional and compassionate Team Lead for Prison Healthcare to join our established multidisciplinary team and play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality healthcare to people in custody.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team of nurses, advanced practitioners, allied health professionals and healthcare support workers while helping shape the future of prison healthcare in the Highlands.
As Team Lead, you will provide day-to-day clinical and operational leadership across Primary Care, Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services within the prison environment. You will work alongside the Service Man
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