Bank Senior Nurse - HMP Exeter

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 41,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Exeter seeks a Senior Nurse to deliver high-quality clinical care in a challenging prison environment. You will play a vital role in enhancing healthcare services for prisoners, supporting their well-being and community reintegration. The position requires a registered nurse with at least two years' experience and strong clinical skills. This role offers flexible working conditions and the opportunity to make a significant impact in offender healthcare.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• Support development of evidence-based practice and promote research.
• Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians.

Skills

Good written and verbal communication skills

Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

Education

Registered NMC Qualification (RGN)

Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Job summary

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 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: In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.

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: 19 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £40,823 a year Per annum pro-rata

Contract: Bank

Working pattern: Flexible working

Reference number: 277-BankNurseB6-HMPExe-B

Job locations: HMP Exeter

30 New N Rd, Exeter, EX4 4EX

Job responsibilities

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. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach 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, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal and to ensure 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 can be downloaded in supporting documents section)

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, 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 ).

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential:

• Registered NMC Qualification (RGN)
• Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience

Experience Essential:

• Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
• Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
• Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare

Desirable:

• Previous prison/secure experience

Skills Essential:

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

HMP Exeter, 30 New N Rd, Exeter, EX4 4EX

Website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/