Charge Nurse - Registered General Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated Registered General Nurse to work in a challenging environment at HMP Wandsworth. This role involves delivering primary care and substance misuse services to a complex patient population, aiming to improve their healthcare outcomes. The ideal candidate will have a nursing degree, excellent clinical skills, and the capacity to manage the needs of offenders. Full support and training will be offered, along with the opportunity to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience with substance misuse and mental health patients is preferred.
• Full support and training will be provided.
• Must pass a numeracy test to be interviewed.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary healthcare services in a prison setting.
• Supervise primary care staff and manage rotas.
• Lead in clinical supervision and training.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Ability to work with complex patients

Leadership

Teamwork

Education

Nursing degree

Registered Nurse status

Job description

Are you looking for a challenge? Do you enjoy variety and dealing with complex patients? Do you possess excellent clinical skills? Do you want to make a difference?

Calling All Register General Nurses

We have a number of exciting and challenging new posts in the Offender Healthcare Service at HMP Wandsworth. This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at one of the largest prisons in the UK. You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and substance misuse services for our population.

Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

You will be joining us at an exciting time and be involved in the implementation of a Health and Wellbeing Model to improve offender healthcare. You will join our established team of nurses across the prison and will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting the following services: Primary Care services including First Night in Custody screening, secondary screening, nurse clinics, long term condition management, health promotion; Inpatient Unit; Emergency Response and Substance Misuse nursing services. You will be supported by our friendly team of healthcare staff in an environment where no two days are the same.

We are looking for a Band 6 nurse from a wide variety of backgrounds. Experience of working with patients with substance misuse and mental health issues, or experience within a prison environment would be an advantage, but not essential as full support and training will be provided.

We will be recruiting to the following positions: Primary Care Charge Nurse.

All applicants will be expected to take a numeracy test and only applicants who pass this test will be interviewed.

Oxleas – 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

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

The post holder will exercise a degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments under the management of the Primary Care Clinical Lead and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.

To be responsible for primary care staff rotas, taking into account efficient use of resources, staff capacity and changing service needs.

Responsible for staff supervision and annual appraisal.

• Support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed. This will include acute care, long term conditions management and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health and National Service Frameworks.
• Demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff 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.
• Participate in all monitoring systems to promote the development of evidence based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• Lead in the professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• Lead in the identification of all aspects of specific service, training and personal development needs.
• Lead in the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools / Care Programme Approach (CPA) and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons and forensic units within the service.

The post holder will participate in all service reviews as required.

Act as an Authorised Signatory as well as being responsible for the booking of temporary staffing.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Play a lead role in the on‑going development and delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service team clinical model.
• Manage a clinical caseload.
• Ensure all clinics are delivered in a clinically effective, efficient & timely way, in line with service needs.
• Deliver strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations and agencies as directed.
• Support systems for the collection, triage & management of all referrals.
• Monitor and audit of the quality and effectiveness of all aspects of service delivery.
• Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout an offender’s care pathway whilst detained in prison.
• To liaise with others to share expertise, promote ideas and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, agencies and organisations as required.

Dimensions of Post Holder

• Develop and maintain inter‑disciplinary and inter‑agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations.
• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police and all other statutory and non‑statutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management.
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with senior staff.

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 Tuesday 6 Jan 2026