Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse - HMP Birmingham
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity for an experienced Mental Health or Learning Disability nurse to join the Prison Community Mental Health team at HMP Birmingham. The role involves providing mental health nursing to prisoners, particularly those with serious and enduring mental illness, personality disorders, and acute phases of illness. It includes risk assessment, care management, and liaison with various agencies within and outside the prison environment. The post supports the Inreach pathway for individuals with identified mental illness on CPA.
Essential criteria
- Qualification and NMC PIN
- Experience of working in a secure setting
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring qualification
- Previous experience of working in a Prison
- Qualification or experience of delivering [contact details removed]
- Registered Nurse RMN or RNLD
- Qualification and NMC PIN
- Experience of working in a secure setting
- Mentoring qualification
- Previous experience of working in a Prison
- Qualification or experience of delivering [contact details removed]
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Are you looking for variety, flexibility, challenge and the chance to progress your career into providing modern mental health care in a prison setting?
Fantastic opportunity has risen for an experienced Mental Health or Learning Disability nurses to join the Prison Community Mental Health team as a Band 6 CPN here at HMP Birmingham for a 12-month fixed term period.
This part-time post is in our busy mental health team supporting our Inreach pathway, which supports those with an identified mental illness and are on CPA.
HMP Birminghamwhich is an Adult Category B prison with a diverse range of nursing needs. HMP Birmingham currently holds a maximum of 970 prisoners, with a combination of both sentenced and remand Adult males.
This brings a great opportunity to embrace change and embed culture. The role will be an experience like no other, requiring a diverse mixed nursing skills background and attracts nurses from a range of professional specialist areas, such as Assertive Outreach and Forensic Services.
Main duties of the job
To provide community mental health nursing which contributes to the wider mental health services that are on offer to the mentally ill within HMP Birmingham prison, particularly for those experiencing serious and enduring mental illness, symptoms of personality disorder and acute phases of illness. This also includes needs -led inter
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