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Are you currently working in the Custody environment with 12+ months of experience?
Ready for a new challenge where you'll lead a small team of HCPs, guide clinical practice, and support the development of advanced forensic and clinical skills — not only in yourself, but across your team?
If so, this could be the perfect next step in your custody career.
Salary
1. Starting salary: £45,
2. Progression: Up to £49, once all when all professional development pathway training is passed following assessments.
About the Role
As a senior leader within our service, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring detained individuals receive safe, accurate and compassionate healthcare.
You will:
3. Lead, support and supervise a team of Healthcare Professionals, ensuring high‑quality clinical assessments, robust documentation and consistent care standards.
4. Oversee rota management, stepping in where necessary to maintain safe staffing and service continuity.
5. Work closely with the Clinical Lead as part of an integrated leadership team, ensuring local processes reflect National Clinical Governance Standards.
6. Champion best practice, continuous improvement and a culture of clinical excellence.
Your clinical expertise, leadership strengths and commitment to high standards will have a meaningful daily impact in the custody environment
Minimum Requirements
To apply, you must be:
7. A qualified RN Adult, RMN (dual registration welcomed), RGN or Paramedic
8. Able to demonstrate a minimum of 12 months' Custody experience
9. Three years post‑qualification experience gained in one or more of the following: General Practice, Emergency Medicine, Walk‑in Centres, Substance Misuse Services, Prison Healthcare, Mental Health Services, Ambulance Service
10. A UK resident for a minimum of 3 years
11. Holder of a full manual driving licence (no restrictions), with the ability to travel to other custody suites and local hospitals as required
12. Able to pass police vetting checks
Exceptional Professional Development Pathway
We're deeply committed to your growth and will support you with a comprehensive, structured development journey that includes:
13. Full appraisal and performance management training to help you excel and progress with confidence
14. Specialist education and assessment training, equipping you with the skills to develop others
15. Non‑Medical Independent & Supplementary Prescribing, enhancing your clinical scope
16. Fully funded Master's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice in Custody Healthcare
17. Includes academic credits in clinical and forensic practice
18. RCUK‑approved Advanced Life Support training to strengthen your emergency response skills
19. Dedicated mentorship from highly experienced Clinical Leads
20. Access to our bespoke Leading Together management development programme
21. Includes recognised leadership and management apprenticeships
22. FFLM Licentiate in General Forensic Medicine (Part 1 & 2) completed within 5 years of joining
23. UKAFN ASET in Forensic Practice achieved within 3 years of joining
24. Specialist examined training in mental health and substance misuse
25. A designated COMEA system to support the development of your professional portfolio and CV
This is one of the most comprehensive clinical‑forensic development pathways available in the sector.
Ready to take the next step?
If you're passionate about clinical leadership, committed to developing others and excited by the unique challenges of the custody environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and advance your career with purpose.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Sara Sanders at .