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Spectrum Community Health CIC; Barnard Castle; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Additional day off

Welcome payment

Refer a friend

Training & development

Employee Assistance & Wellbeing

Up to 33 days annual leave

Job summary

Spectrum Community Health CIC seeks a dedicated Registered Nurse to lead a multidisciplinary team within a secure health setting at HMP/YOI Deerbolt. You will apply your clinical nursing knowledge, strong leadership and interpersonal skills to coordinate care, plan shifts and ensure high-quality evidence-based practice, while supporting NHS Pension benefits.

The role offers a welcome payment for qualifying posts, extensive training and development, and access to wellbeing programmes, with up to

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with post-registration experience and leadership potential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are crucial to work with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in substance misuse, primary care, or prison healthcare settings is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day management, coordination and delivery of evidence-based care.
• Lead nursing shift planning and adjust staffing in line with patient need and service demand.
• Supervise holistic care and collaborate with other professionals to optimise prisoner healthcare services.

Skills

Nurse leadership

Clinical nursing knowledge

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Job description

Lead Nurse - HMP/YOI Deerbolt + £1500 welcome payment | Spectrum Community Health CIC

Are you a dedicated Registered Nurse looking for a new challenge within a secure setting focusing on substance misuse and primary care? Have you developed your leadership skills across integrated and multi-disciplinary services? Are you a motivated nurse committed to clinical quality and continuous improvement? Would you welcome the opportunity for further training and development? Do you want to combine your substance misuse, primary care, acute and emergency nursing skills all in one place and keep your NHS Pension?

You must have post registration experience with excellent clinical nursing knowledge and eager to develop your managerial skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are crucial with the ability to work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team. If you are a motivated individual with a desire to enhance your clinical and leadership skills, we can offer a wide range of training and development opportunities such as clinical skills and non medical prescribing.

The welcome payment is payable to new candidates joining Spectrum Community Health CIC.

The post holder will take responsibility for the daily management, co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based care and provide strong clinical leadership to the nursing team. This includes being involved with shift planning, taking appropriate action to adjust staffing levels and to prioritise the workload in accordance with patient need, service demand and the availability and skills of staff.

The post holder will be involved with providing and supervising the holistic care for the patients delivered by the team and working in collaboration with other professionals to ensure that the best care is optimised at all times. The role involves assessing, providing advice and administering evidence-based care as appropriate to patients within Health & Justice. This includes leading physical health services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, provide and evaluate a range of health interventions to meet prisoner healthcare needs and contribute to the wider continuous development of integrated prison healthcare services. Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and evidence-based treatment options to provide primary care physical health, clinical and operational guidance to all staff on matters relating to physical health and wellbeing within the prison setting.

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Time for you day (additional day off)
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. For an informal discussion please contact Head of Healthcare, Tracy Knight

This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Sep 2026