Primary Care Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Newton Abbot; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Newton Abbot is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse to join their integrated healthcare team. The role involves delivering high-quality clinical care to individuals in prison, promoting health and well-being. The ideal candidate will have a strong nursing background and be prepared to undertake various responsibilities, including emergency response and patient management. A preceptorship is available for newly qualified nurses. This position promises a structured development pathway and the chance to make a real impact on patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with appropriate qualifications.
• Experience in healthcare settings is preferred.
• Ability to undertake National Security Vetting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service.
• Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision.
• Work collaboratively with healthcare teams for patient care.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Communication skills

Emergency response

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 work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient’s 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.

We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified registered nurses (who will initially be offered a preceptorship position) and experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to aid your development.

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

Duties & Responsibilities

• Reception screening
• Emergency response
• Long term conditions management
• Planned care (e.g. running clinics)
• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services
• Health promotion activities
• 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, 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.
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
• The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
• The post holder will ensure a named care co‑ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence‑based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long‑term conditions using our stepped care approach.

Values

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

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.

Required Documentation

• 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.
• 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).

Closing

This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.