Bank Mental Health Nurse (RMN) - HMP Bristol | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Mental Health Nurse to join their team within the prison service. This role requires providing specialist mental healthcare and managing complex cases. A Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience in a multidisciplinary environment is essential, along with strong assessment and intervention skills. The position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on offenders' mental health and well-being.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with an interest in prison healthcare.
• Experience working with a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to manage a challenging caseload.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions and care planning.
• Monitor the quality of service delivery.

Skills

Robust assessment and intervention skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work independently

Experience in multi-agency environment

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

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.

About Oxleas NHS Trust

Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently manages a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Mental Health Nurses to work within the Prison Service on a flexible basis.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being for those in prison, using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We deliver integrated care that includes mental health, physical health, pharmacy and clinical substance misuse services.

To work as a bank‑only worker you must have completed preceptorship training or have six months of post‑qualification experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In‑Reach Team and wider services.
• Work in a psychologically minded way with offenders to achieve agreed goals and quality health outcomes.
• Deliver specialist interventions at primary and secondary care levels, including referral management, screening, assessment, triage, evidence‑based interventions, care planning and risk assessment.
• Facilitate one‑to‑one and group work, manage a mixed and challenging caseload, and perform robust assessment and interventions for offenders with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
• Contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and support early discharge through high‑intensity interventions and complex case management.
• Ensure continuity of care for offenders on ordinary location reducing length of stay in both prison inpatient services and external NHS/independent inpatient services.
• Work closely with mental health teams and other agencies to ensure appropriate information sharing and the Care Programme Approach for all offenders.
• Monitor and audit the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure continuity of treatment throughout an offender’s care pathway while detained in prison and admitted to the IPU.
• Liaise with other stakeholders, agencies and organisations to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively.

Qualifications & Experience

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with a genuine interest in prison healthcare.
• Experience working in a multi‑agency environment with a multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of robust assessment and intervention skills for offenders.
• Ability to work independently and manage a challenging caseload.
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality.

Important Information

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a Prison setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

Documents Required

• Proof of right to work documentation.
• Proof of ID, including one photographic ID.
• Proof of address documentation.
• For non‑UK passport holders: correct documentation for right to work in the UK and a Home Office Share code.
• 5‑year address history.
• For non‑UK passport holders with less than 5 years UK address history: an English Police Certificate from the country previously resided.
• For UK passport holders who lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years: a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the relevant country.

Our Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025.