Registered Nurse - HMP Forest Bank
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This Registered Nurse role provides comprehensive physical health services within a Multi-Disciplinary Team at HMP Forest Bank. The post holder will conduct health assessments, administer medication, perform diagnostic tests, and deliver health interventions for prisoners. It involves working flexibly across the service to provide responsive, evidence-based primary care, aiming to prevent transfers to outside hospitals. The role requires a keen interest in developing knowledge and skills across integrated services within a prison setting.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Level 1 - Adult / General/Mental Health
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship / supervision/teaching / assessing experience/ training
- Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to work autonomous and part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and that of other staff
- Ability to work in a challenging and diverse environment
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Officee
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Professional attitude
- Ability to work as team member through developing and maintaining positive working relationships
- Positive attitude to change
- Non-judgmental attitude treating others with courtesy and respect at all times
- Knowledge of current healthcare issues.
- Knowledge of clinical governance audit, risk management and quality agenda.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
- Competent in clinical practice e.g., phlebotomy, ECG monitoring
- Worked in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
- Understanding and application of confidentiality
- Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment.
- Experience of health needs assessment/Triage
- Working to Patient Group Directives
- Experience in working in general practice
- Management / Minor Injuries Experience of using SystmOne or willing to undertake training
- NMC Registered
- Registered Nurse Level 1 - Adult / General/Mental Health
- Mentorship / supervision/teaching / assessing experience/ training
- Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to work autonomous and part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and that of other staff
- Ability to work in a challenging and diverse environment
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Officee
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Professional attitude
- Ability to work as team member through developing and maintaining positive working relationships
- Positive attitude to change
- Non-judgmental attitude treating others with courtesy and respect at all times
- Knowledge of current healthcare issues.
- Knowledge of clinical governance audit, risk management and quality agenda.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
- Competent in clinical practice e.g., phlebotomy, ECG monitoring
- Worked in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
- Understanding and application of confidentiality
- Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment.
- Experience of health needs assessment/Triage
- Working to Patient Group Directives
- Experience in working in general practice
- Management / Minor Injuries Experience of using SystmOne or willing to undertake training
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.
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Spectrum Community Health CIC
Registered Nurse - HMP Forest Bank
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
To provide a comprehensive physical health service as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to patients with physical health needs within Health & Justice. In conjunction with the management team contribute to and deliver a comprehensive Primary Health Service in partnership with mental health and key stakeholders as part of a multidisciplinary team within the prison setting.
This role involves undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, performing diagnostic tests, as appropriate, and providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to meet prisoner health and social care needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the service to provide responsive, evidence-based interventions working alongside physical and mental health clinical teams.
The postholder will be part of a team that provides primary care within a prison, preventing transfer to outside hospitals. They will demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and treatment options and have a keen interest in developing knowledge and skills across the integrated services.
The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our shared commitment to our values; Working Together, Integrity,
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