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 Registered Nursing Associate 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.
Please note:In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.
As a Nursing Associate you will be responsible for contributing towards the health and wellbeing of patients within the prison setting. You will deliver high quality, personalised, safe, compassionate care in the best interest of people.
Using your knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours gained within fields of nursing, you will be responsible for providing holistic care and support for people of all ages within the setting.
You will be working independently, under the leadership of a registered nurse, working within the sphere of nursing. You will be required to recognise and work within the limits of your competence, and work to the nationally recognised NMC code of conduct.
Key duties:
To work as directed by a registered nurse.
To provide care physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.
To support the delivery of national screening programmes.
To support and deliver clinics as instructed within the establishments clinic timetable.
Oxleas – 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
Promoting Health and Preventing ill Health
•Supporting people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing.
•Active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health.
•Engage in public health, community development, and in the reduction of health inequalities.
•Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting patients/service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions under the guidance of a registered professional.
•Advocating for patients/service users’ needs and rights within Trust policy.
•Encouraging and empowering individuals to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.
Provide and Monitor Care
• Acting professionally at all times and adhere to Trust policies
• Using knowledge and experience to make evidence based decisions and solve problems in the best interests of the people they care for.
• Providing care that is person-centered, safe, and compassionate and putting people first.
• Monitoring the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with people, families and carers.
• Communicating effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating or handing over responsibility for care.
• Communicating effectively with patients when delivering care and providing advice where appropriate.
• Recognizing and reporting any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes.
• Understand, encourage and complete the necessary paperwork to enable discharge/transfers in a safe and timely manner.
• Recognizing and value patients and service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the patient/service user’s respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
• Contributing to the development of care plans that reflect patients/service user needs, working in partnership with patients/service users, wider MDT and friends/relatives/significant others.
(Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
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.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Nov 2025
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