Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Channings Wood | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Newton Abbot; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider for prisons is seeking Registered Nurses and Senior Nurses to join their team. The position offers a flexible banking role, focusing on delivering integrated healthcare services to prisoners across various locations. Candidates must have the relevant nursing qualifications and experience, with responsibilities including managing clinical caseloads and supporting healthcare delivery standards. This is a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on health and rehabilitation within the justice system. All applicants must undergo National Security Vetting.

Qualifications

• Must have completed preceptorship training or have 6 months post-qualification experience.
• Understanding of national health standards in prisons is essential.
• Experience in managing complex clinical cases.

Responsibilities

• Support integrated healthcare services within prisons.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload effectively.
• Deliver quality clinical care including acute and primary care.
• Participate in supervision and appraisals for junior staff.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Communication skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

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.

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 Registered Nurses & Senior Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison. We provide Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse services within an integrated healthcare delivery model to improve outcomes and support future resettlement.

Please note: We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6. Banding will 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.

Registered Nurse Duties

• To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
• To manage a complex clinical caseload.
• To 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

• The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills.
• To 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.
• To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence‑based nursing practice to ensure quality and outcome‑driven practice on a day‑to‑day basis.
• To support the development of evidence‑based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, ensuring junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal and that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools, long‑term condition registers and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required.
• To deputise for the Team manager as required.
• To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment.
• Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staffs are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines.
• To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting.
• Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying.

(Full JD's 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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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 (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025