Band 6 Deputy Team Leader – HMP Birmingham, Substance Misuse Service

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a Deputy Team Leader) within HMP Birmingham to join Birmingham Recovery Team. We are looking to recruit highly motivated individuals who are passionate about providing high quality and compassionate care within a unique environment.

Birmingham Recovery Team provides the clinical substance misuse service at HMP Birmingham and the role involves assessing, planning, and treating prisoners who come into custody with substance/addictions related issues.

As an integrated healthcare service, we work collaboratively with the Psychosocial team, Primary Care and Mental Health teams. It is an exciting time for the team here and we need a dynamic and eager person to join the team, bringing fresh ideas and a willingness to evolve the service.

This role will provide the candidate with the opportunity to gain experience at leadership and management level- including staff supervision and support. As you may know this is a very busy time of change within the prison, an opportunity for us to maximise on those changes to make our own. This is an opportunity to be a part of those changes at a management level.

The successful candidates will need excellent communication and organisational skills and setting their own work agenda in line with the job role and Trust and local HMPPS policies.

Main duties of the job

Applicants must be a Registered Nurse who are able to work in a challenging, dynamic and recovery focused environment.

You will need to demonstrate a range of skills including the following:

  • Effective leadership and management
  • Staff supervision and appraisals
  • Rota management
  • Effective communication, empathy, self-awareness, compassion and critical self-reflection

This role requires a minimum of 18 months experience at Band 5.

Experience working within secure and offender healthcare is desirable.

As part of the recruitment process and offer of employment, HMPPS security enhanced level 1 clearance is required.

The post includes an environmental allowance of £1,542 per annum,

Person Specification

Nursing Experience

Essential

  • Qualified RMN/ RGN
  • Minimum of 12-18 months experience
  • Supporting statement
  • Evidence of knowledge: leadership & management

Desirable

  • Secure and offender healthcare experience
  • Substance misuse service experience
  • Prison nursing experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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