Job summary
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting Registered Nurses & Senior Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
Please note: We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6, banding to be discussed at interview and is based on experience.
In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.
Main duties of the job
As a Registered Nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities. You will demonstrate robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality & outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
As a Senior Nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. Within the prison, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 staff work in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children\'s centres, schools and people\'s homes.
We have sites in the South of England and London. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, serving prisons within multiple regions. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
Our values: We\'re Kind, We\'re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
Details
Date posted: 10 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £33,487 to £40,823 a year pro rata
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference: 277-BankNurse5/6-HMPBri-G
Job locations: HMP Bristol, Bristol, BS7 8PS
Job responsibilities
* Registered Nurse Duties: To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* To manage a complex clinical caseload.
* To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
* Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs.
* Senior Nurse Duties: The post holder will exercise autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex judgments; deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.
* Demonstrate robust expert clinical skills and evidence-based nursing practice to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice.
* Support development of evidence-based practice, promote research as appropriate, and participate in supervision and appraisal processes.
* Ensure patient centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all prisons within the service.
* Collaborate with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians; deputise for the Team Manager as required; work in a challenging environment; uphold health and safety policies; adhere to Trust policies and guidelines; be familiar with Prison Standards and related material; promote equality and a harassment-free environment.
(Full JD\'s can be downloaded in supporting documents section)
Important information
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a prison setting. This will be completed as part of pre-employment checks.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, including 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need correct documentation and a Home Office Share code
* Address history for 5 years
* Police certificate if required for overseas/residence; English translation where applicable
* Certificate of good conduct or overseas police check if applicable
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from the UK government site; if the country is not listed, contact the relevant Embassy or High Commission.
Qualifications and experience
Essential:
* Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6)
* Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience (B6)
* Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care (B5/B6)
* Minimum of two years\' experience at Band 5 (B6)
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration; working with statutory and voluntary organisations (B6)
* Knowledge of current prison/offender healthcare issues (B6)
Desirable:
* Previous prison/secure experience (B5/B6)
Disclosure and UK registration
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975; a Disclosure to the DBS is required. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: HMP Bristol, Bristol, BS7 8PS
Employer website: oxleas.nhs.uk
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