# Team Leader - Manchester Short- Term Holding Facility

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spectrum Community Health CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** Manchester Short-Term Holding Facility
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Team leader
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: DBS & CTC (Home Office) required
- **Employment type:** Part time - 24 hours per week (07:00- 19:00 and 19:00- 07:00)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-16T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02T15:40:52.741Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Manchester/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Prison_Nursing/Prison_Nursing-v8377677
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8377677?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

THIS POST IS A LONE WORKER ROLE.

The post holder will take responsibility for the daily management, co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based care and provide strong clinical leadership to the nursing team. This includes being involved with shift planning, taking appropriate action to adjust staffing levels and to prioritise the workload in accordance with patient need, service demand and the availability and skills of staff.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will be involved with providing and supervising the holistic care for the patients delivered by the team and working in collaboration with other professionals to ensure that the best care is optimised at all times. The role involves assessing, providing advice, and administering evidence-based care as appropriate to patients within Health & Justice. This includes leading physical health services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, provide and evaluate a range of health interventions to meet patient healthcare needs and contribute to the wider continuous development of healthcare services.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Refer to Job Description and person specification for job details. For any further information please contact Kelly Warrington. CTC and enhanced DBS is required for this role.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post registration experience
- Significant experience of working in a complex environment with multidisciplinary professionals demonstrating effective communication and leadership skills
- Be able to demonstrate experience of clinical governance used to improve patient care
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner
- Change management experience
- Experience of leading a team and effectively using policy and procedures to improve clinical and professional standards
- Experience of multidisciplinary/multi agency working
- Understanding and application of confidentiality

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within Health & Justice
- Experience of working in primary care/substance misuse/acute care
- Understanding of local and national key documents and their impact on health care delivery in a prison setting
- Research experience

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered General Nurse Level 1
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and delivery of evidence based care
- Independent Nurse /Supplementary/ NonMedical Prescriber qualification or willingness to undertake
- Appropriate management qualification of equivalent experience

**Desirable**

- RCGP Cert 1/2 Primary Care/LTC qualification

### Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- Openness to explore and lead alternative working practices.
- Able to communicate efficiently and effectively.
- Demonstrate a high level of personal and professional autonomy and an understanding of professional accountability
- Able to develop and maintain positive working relationships.
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.

## Documents

- [lead nurse jd (pdf, 227.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10741624)
- [recruitment faq's (pdf, 325.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3014)
- [spectrum's benefits (jpg, 188.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2774)

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