Overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
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 patient\'s 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.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties
* The post holder will provide specialist assessments, nursing interventions and prescribing of medications to adults residing in HMP Bristol.
* As a senior clinician, you will participate in the review of clinical policies and guidelines relevant to the area and support and implement changes to practice.
* The post holder will be required to liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice, be able to undertake audit activity and supervision to other staff in Mental Health team.
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 new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children\'s centres, schools and people\'s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We\'re Kind
* We\'re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Details
Date posted: 09 October 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year pa
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 277-7533867-BRIS
Job locations: HMP Bristol, Bristol, BS7 8PS
Job description
Key Task and Responsibilities
* To actively manage a complex caseload of patients and undertake case management/lead professional/CPA as needed
* Undertake the role of supplementary/independent prescriber
* To be responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
* Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development
* Actively support colleagues to deliver quality evidence based care through supervision, guided self-development, reflective practice and supported skill development
* Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required
* To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards
* Support the Clinical Lead with the co-ordination of recruitment and selection of staff within the team
* Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
* Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies
* Work with other Offender Healthcare teams across the Trust as required
* To ensure robust service to carers, including assessment and support
* Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service
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 the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code
* Address History: 5 years address history will be needed
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited
Guidance on overseas police checks can be found at the UK government site.
Person specification
Education
* Essential: Registered RMN
* Essential: Registered Independent non-medical prescribing
Desirable
* Mentorship/Leadership Course
* Post qualification training relating to MH, neurodevelopment disorders or addiction
Experience
* Essential: Community Mental Health or Offender Healthcare experience
* Essential: Significant achievement in clinical practice across variable settings
* Essential: Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
* Essential: Prescribing experience
Skills
* Essential: Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care
* Essential: Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
Other requirements
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and requires a DBS submission.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require UK Skilled Worker sponsorship will be considered; see UK Visas and Immigration for details.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. See NHS Careers for more information.
Employer details: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Address: HMP Bristol, Bristol, BS7 8PS
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