Prison Healthcare Nurse: Registered & Senior

Job Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting a Registered Nurses & Senior Nurses to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

As a Registered Nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.

In order to do the above, you will be required 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 & outcome driven practice on a day‑to‑day basis.

As a Senior Nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. Within the prison, we deliver a nurse‑led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice‑based clinical model of care. Our senior nurses deliver primary care, emergency response and first night in custody/new registration services. 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.

We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6, banding to be discussed at interview and is based on experience.

In order to work as a bank only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience.