Job overview
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 currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting a 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.
Responsibilities
Registered Nurse Duties
* 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.
* Manage a complex clinical caseload with the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments.
* Support the development, implementation and maintenance of 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
* Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy with the ability to plan and reach complex judgments; demonstrate decision making skills.
* 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, aligned with NHS Plan and National Service Frameworks.
* Demonstrate robust expert clinical skills and evidence-based nursing practice to support quality and outcome driven care.
* Support development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate.
* Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision to ensure junior staff receive supervision, training and appraisal.
* Implement effective patient-centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery across prisons within the service.
* Collaborate with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs; deputise for the Team Manager as required.
* Work positively in a difficult and often hostile environment and uphold Health & Safety policies and Prison Standards.
* Work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines and maintain awareness of relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.
* Promote equality of opportunity and ensure an environment free from harassment and bullying.
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: 17 October 2025
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 5
* Salary: £33,487 to £40,823 a year Per annum pro-rata
* Contract: Bank
* Working pattern: Flexible working
* Reference number: 277-BankNurse5/6-HMPCW-A
* Job locations: HMP Channings Wood, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6DW
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 (must include 1 photographic ID), proof of address, and any necessary Home Office verification for non-UK applicants.
* Address history: 5 years may be required; some applicants may need a Police Certificate in English from previously resided countries.
* UK passport holders who have lived abroad may need a certificate of good conduct or overseas police check in English from countries resided in or visited.
* Guidance on police certificates can be found here and via the Foreign & Commonwealth Office guidance; links provided in the original posting.
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 with other statutory and voluntary organisations (B6)
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare (B6)
Desirable
* Previous prison/secure experience (B5/B6)
Disclosure and UK Registration
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such a Disclosure submission is required. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Employer: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: HMP Channings Wood, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6DW
Employer's website: oxleas.nhs.uk
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