Registered Nurse (Primary Care)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join a diverse healthcare team at HMP The Verne, delivering primary care services to offenders. The role involves providing high-quality clinical care, including reception screening, emergency response, long-term conditions management, and health promotion activities. You will work within an integrated healthcare delivery model, making a real impact on the health and well-being of patients in a challenging yet rewarding environment.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse) (or pending PIN)
- Previous nursing
- Working knowledge or interest of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Education/ Qualifications
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse) (or pending PIN)
- Previous nursing
- Working knowledge or interest of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 26d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Are you ready tounlock 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 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 registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP The Vern
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