Prison Inclusion Health & Cancer Manager

Prison Inclusion Health & Cancer Manager

The closing date is 25 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and enthusiastic Prison Inclusion Health & Cancer Manager to the Northumbria Public Health Team.

This is a new innovative post working to our Inclusive Equitable Healthcare principles. With a focus on cancer pathways the Prison Inclusion Health & Cancer Manager will work in partnership with relevant healthcare and prison related services to drive a coordinated approach to improving prisoner healthcare access, experience and outcomes when accessing secondary healthcare services.

The prison population face unique challenges in accessing secondary healthcare. They experience multiple risk factors for poor health, leading to poor health outcomes and increasing health inequalities. This post will work in partnership with the local prison and our clinical teams to develop sustainable improvements in cancer care pathways. Working to understand the offender pathways of care and support services to undertake quality improvement interventions to improve models of care that support improved offender health outcomes, address health inequalities and promote timely, high-quality cancer care.

The Trust has received 12 months funding to pilot this role and evaluate the impact, and as such we are seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Prison Inclusion Health & Cancer Manager to join our team, working 37.5 hours a week on a 12-month fixed term contract, secondments considered.

The post holder is expected to work closely between the local prison and the Trust; understand prisoner pathways of care, support services in quality improvement interventions; improving processes; support improved prisoner health outcomes, address health inequalities and promote timely, high-quality cancer care. You will provide a visible, accessible presence, acting as a professional role model and inclusion health advocate, maintaining joint working across services involved in care and management of the offender population.

You will require excellent communication and required to liaise with key personnel from both Trust and local prison, including skills and knowledge in communicating effectively with offenders helping patient engagement and co-production.

Candidates will be committed to continuous professional development, possess excellent organisational and managerial skills, and passion to deliver high standards. Excellent team working and prioritisation skills are crucial. Candidate will possess a master's level qualification, or equivalent experience. You will be flexible & organised in the workplace able to deliver a quality and successful service. We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic & innovative individual with the ability to work in a potentially demanding and diverse workflow, working on your own initiative.

You will be required to work Trust wide and in the local prison with a base to Cobalt Business Park, with blended working arrangements as required.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

This post will lead the partnership work between the Trust and the local prison, identifying and developing appropriate interventions, with clinical teams, to quality improve the Trust healthcare offer to the offender population.

The post will scope both Trust and prison healthcare processes to identify appropriate areas to improve processes considering challenges faced by prison patients in accessing timely cancer diagnostics and support whilst on the cancer pathway.

Provide specialist advice and support on public health matters to all health care professionals.

In conjunction with the multi-disciplinary / multi-agency teams, facilitate improvement in offender healthcare engagement rates and reduce did not attend appointments.

To be a bridge between the prison and the healthcare providers to enable improvements in joint care developing better methods for seamless communication.

To provide management and professional…