Custody Clinical Coordinator - Thames Valley - 24 Hours

Job summary

Ready to build on your custody healthcare experience and take the next step into clinical leadership?

Join Mountain Healthcare as a Custody Clinical Coordinator and combine hands-on practice with responsibility for supporting, developing and coordinating the Thames Valley custody healthcare team.

You will provide trusted clinical guidance, help colleagues manage complex and high-risk cases, coordinate timely care and contribute to safe, consistent standards across the service.

This is an opportunity to broaden your impact beyond your own clinical caseload while retaining the autonomy, variety and purpose of custody healthcare.

With flexible working and the opportunity to combine coordinator and Custody Healthcare Professional shifts, you can develop your leadership experience while continuing to make a meaningful difference to vulnerable people in police custody.

Main duties of the job

Why Join Us

• A substantive commitment of two shifts per week, with flexible working arrangements to support worklife balance.
• Opportunity to combine Custody Clinical Coordinator shifts with Custody Healthcare Professional shifts and work up to full-time hours, if desired.
• Accredited forensic training provided.
• Supportive, values-driven team culture.
• Opportunities to progress within one of the UKs most respected forensic healthcare providers.

If you are an experienced custody clinician ready to step into a role with greater responsibility and influence, we would welcome your application.

About us

Founded by passionate clinicians on a mission to provide expert patient-centred services, Mountain Healthcare leads the clinical forensic healthcare provisions sector in the UK.

A premier partner of NHS England and the police, our unique provisions include Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), Police Custodial Healthcare, Secure Estate Healthcare and clinical telephone advice.

Driven by our values Be Kind and Do the Right Thing, Mountain Healthcare provides holistic and trauma-informed care that improves the immediate and long-term health outcomes of patients across the criminal justice system.

Through innovative technologies and strategic partnerships, our expert clinicians ensure equal, effective and efficient services to all our patients and always put their health, safety and rights first.

Clinical forensic healthcare is a rapidly growing career path as demand for specialist critical services has greatly increased in recent years.

At Mountain Healthcare, we understand that to provide the highest quality services for our patients and customers, our people must be the best in the field.

We are proud to offer unrivalled staff training and development opportunities such as our unique Forensic Practitioner Gateway, our wide range of accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, and access to events across the health and justice sector.

Details

• Date posted: 19 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £55,075 to £55,075 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: oc-1792170208-WPELK
• Job locations: Milton Keynes, MK9 2DS, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Provide effective line management through regular supervision and appraisal, constructive performance management and the identification of continuing professional development strategies.
• Act as a key clinical contact for the Thames Valley team, police colleagues and partner organisations. Provide timely remote clinical advice by phone and, where required, review patients face to face.
• Work collaboratively with police and healthcare colleagues to identify and assess people entering custody who meet the Joint Risk Team definition of high risk, helping to reduce the likelihood of avoidable adverse events.
• Provide teaching, coaching and a supportive learning environment so that custody healthcare staff have the skills and knowledge required to perform their roles safely and effectively.
• To lead, support, supervise and instruct the team through the process of change, demonstrating tenacity, drive professional integrity and positive communication style.
• To be responsible for the clinical co-ordination and management of resources in the provision of health care for such patients and be responsible for the wider deployment of healthcare resources