Senior Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Registered Nurse for HMP Bristol. The role delivers high-quality primary care and specialist interventions within a nurse-led integrated service, supporting complex caseloads and supervising junior colleagues.

The post requires NHS registration, a Band 6 level, and demonstrated experience in offender healthcare, with shift patterns including daytime, evenings, weekends, and nights as outlined in the advert.

Qualifications

• NMC registration and current practice in nursing.
• Minimum two years’ experience at Band 5.
• Experience in prison/offender healthcare and multi-professional collaboration.
• Ability to lead and coordinate a team in a high-demand environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality primary care and specialist interventions in a nurse-led model.
• Deliver care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison.
• Manage a complex caseload and supervise junior staff, ensuring supervision and appraisal.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Education

NMC professional qualification

Postgraduate qualification or equivalent

Job description

Main area Offender Healthcare Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7:00am–7:30pm (3x per week for 3 weeks, 4x per week for 1 week), 2 in 6 weekends, 1 week of night shifts (3x 7pm-7.30am) every 12 weeks) Job ref 277-8118652-BRIS-B

Site HMP Bristol Town Bristol Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

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 Senior 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.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

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

Main duties of the job

As a senior registered nurse , you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for our patients . At HMP Bristol , 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 clinical practice to those in prison.

Our senior registered staff carry out a range of duties including ; r eception screening, e mergency response , l ong term conditions management , p lanned care (e.g. running clinics ) , e nhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and h ealth promotion activities .

As a senior member of our team, you will hold a complex caseload and support more junior colleagues with any help or advice they may require . You will also be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the healthcare team and provide clinical supervision to junior team members including band 5 healthcare professionals , healthcare assistants and students.

Working for our 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 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 Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 forthe 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.

Please note, HMP Bristol operate a 24/7 service.

Shift pattern: 3 x 12.5-hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) per week for 3 weeks and 4 x 12.5 hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) on the 4th week. Where possible, one shift will be protected for mandatory training, supervision, and administration on-site.

• 2 weekends in every 6-week roster including both Saturday and Sunday.
• 1 set of 3-night shifts every 12-week roster including 2 per annum on weekends (7:00pm–7:30am)

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 photographicID

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.

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

Education/Qualifications

• Professional Qualification - NMC
• Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5
• Working knowledge or clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
• Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.