About the role
Oxleas NHS Trust are recruiting Registered Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible bank basis. The role delivers integrated mental and physical health care, including acute & primary care, substance misuse and health promotion, to support patient wellbeing and future resettlement.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
* Manage a complex clinical caseload and support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* Implement and maintain 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.
Qualifications & Experience
* Registered Nurse with completed preceptorship training or 6 months post qualification experience.
* Demonstrated expertise in evidence‑based nursing practice and critical judgement.
* Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting and meet all application documents.
Application Requirements
* Proof of right to work documentation.
* Proof of ID – 1 photographic ID.
* Proof of address documentation.
* Non‑UK passport holders must provide correct documentation and a Home Office Share code.
* 5 years address history.
* Police Certificate (or certificate of good conduct) where required.
Additional Information
* All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting.
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate 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.
Values
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
About Oxleas NHS Trust
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.
Application Deadline
This advert closes on Monday 27 Oct 2025.
(Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section)
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