Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP The Verne | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider in the UK is seeking Registered Nurses and Senior Nurses for flexible, ad-hoc positions within the Prison service. Successful candidates will deliver high-quality clinical care, manage complex caseloads, and support health promotion activities in a challenging environment. Applicants must have a Registered Nurse qualification and some experience in clinical settings. This is an opportunity to make a positive impact in offender healthcare while working flexibly.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification required.
• Experience in delivering clinical care in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to manage a complex clinical caseload.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality clinical care within the prison healthcare service.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload effectively.
• Support the development and implementation of healthcare standards in prisons.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Decision-making skills

Communication skills

Autonomy

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Preceptorship training or 6 months post-qualification experience

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to build positive and productive lives with people, 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 expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting Registered Nurses and Senior Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible, ad-hoc basis.

Note: We are currently recruiting for ad-hoc bank workers. There will not be guaranteed, frequent shifts and shifts will be on an ad-hoc basis.

We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6; banding discussed at interview and based on experience. To work as a bank-only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience.

Role context

As a Registered Nurse, you will exercise a high degree of autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments. You will deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic interventions, and health promotion activities. You will demonstrate robust expert clinical skills with an evidence-based nursing practice approach to ensure quality and outcomes on a day-to-day basis.

As a Senior Nurse, you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. The service is nurse-led and integrated, delivering primary care, emergency response and first night in custody/new registration services. You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure continuity of care throughout a patient care pathway while detained in prison. You will ensure clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies to promote health and prevent disease in prison settings.

Organisation context

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers NHS healthcare services in community and secure settings, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health services. We work with NHS colleagues, local councils and the voluntary sector across 4,300 staff in a variety of sites including prisons and secure hospitals.

We operate over 125 sites in the South of England, including London boroughs and Kent. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several regions. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to patients and families. Our values are: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.

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.
• To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
• 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 with 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, in line with NHS plans and standards.
• To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to ensure quality- and outcome-driven practice day to day.
• To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate.
• To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision to ensure junior staff receive supervision, training and annual appraisal, integrating it into team practice.
• To ensure effective patient-centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers and consistent delivery across prisons within the service.
• To work with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs; deputise for the Team Manager as required.
• To work positively and effectively in challenging environments and comply with health and safety policies.
• To follow Trust policies and guidelines and be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, notices to staff and related materials in a prison setting.
• Promote equality of opportunity and create an environment free from harassment and bullying.

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 pre-employment checks.

You will need to provide: proof of right to work documentation, proof of ID (including one photographic ID), proof of address, and for non-UK passport holders the correct documentation and Home Office share code. Five years of address history will be needed; where less than five years is provided, a Police Certificate in English may be required. For UK passport holders who have lived abroad within the last three years, a certificate of good conduct or overseas police check in English may be required.

Guidance for obtaining Police Certificates can be found at the UK government site; consult the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for country-specific requirements.

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025.