Senior Nurse

Main area Offender Healthcare Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work pattern including weekends, nights and bank holidays) Job  
-SWALE-C

Site HMP Swaleside Town Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey Salary £40,959 - £50,117 per annum,
** Recruitment & Retention Incentive Included
** Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2026 23:59

As a senior nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Swaleside, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.

As a senior member of staff, you will be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues and ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members.

I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, see them grow, change and improve their general health.

Ellen, Clinical Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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

• 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 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.
• The post holder will need to carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
• 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.
• 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.

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…