Registered Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Registered Nurse to join their team. The successful candidate will provide primary care services to offenders in a prison setting, focusing on clinical excellence and patient-centered care. With a structured development pathway, this role is ideal for both newly qualified and experienced nurses looking to specialize in offender healthcare. Candidates must demonstrate strong clinical skills and a commitment to delivering evidence-based practice.

Benefits

Structured career progression

Ongoing training and development

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with extensive clinical skills.
• Ability to provide high-quality care within a prison environment.
• Strong communication and decision-making skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality primary care services to offenders.
• Manage long-term conditions and conduct healthcare assessments.
• Participate in training and evidence-based practice initiatives.

Skills

Clinical skills

Patient care

Communication skills

Decision-making

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

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 has 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.

Our Band 5 nurses are given the opportunity to undertake a development pathway, where a clear competency framework is set to aid your professional development. This pathway will focus on both clinical and personal skills to enable you to apply for more senior positions once your competencies have been met. 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: we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Erlestoke, we deliver a nurse‑led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice‑based clinical model of care. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence‑based nursing practice to those in prison.

About the Organisation

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 through our new provider collaboratives. 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 Responsibilities

• Reception screening


• Emergency response


• Long‑term conditions management


• Planned care (e.g. running clinics)


• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services


• Health promotion activities


• Carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses


• 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


• 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 and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks


• 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


• Support the development of evidence‑based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate


• Participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, training, and annual appraisal and ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice


• 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


• Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required


• Be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway


• Undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations


• 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


• Ensure that a single, integrated, care plan is developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed


• Ensure that comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs‑led review cycle


• Ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment


• Undertake all training in evidence‑based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery


• Support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long‑term conditions


• Embed health promotion into every aspect of the service


• Liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust’s other directorates as required


• Work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment


• Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staff are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act


• Work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines


• 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

Required Documents

• Proof of right to work documentation


• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID


• Proof of address documentation


• Non‑UK passport holders need correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code


• 5‑year address history


• Police certificate if UK address history less than 5 years for non‑UK passport holders (in English)


• Certificate of good conduct or overseas police check in English for UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months during the last three years

Important Information – Vetting

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.

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).

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026.