Mental Health Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join a diverse team delivering patient-centred care within a prison environment. The role involves providing specialist mental healthcare to offenders as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team, managing a challenging caseload, and performing robust assessments and interventions. You will contribute to alternatives to inpatient admission and assist with early discharge, working closely with community mental health teams to ensure continuity of care. This position offers a chance to blend clinical knowledge with a commitment to high standards of care in a rewarding and challenging setting.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Experience of assessing risks and care-plan effectively (Either through employment or placement)
- Ability to demonstrate safe and effective assessment, triage and care planning & interventions for complex cases.
Desirable criteria
- Experience, interest or understanding of secure environments (prisons or forensic services)
- An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation as they pertain to nursing
- Ability to present information both written and oral form and communicate this effectively.
- Education/Qualification
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Experience of assessing risks and care-plan effectively (Either through employment or placement)
- Ability to demonstrate safe and effective assessment, triage and care planning & interventions for complex cases.
- Experience, interest or understanding of secure environments (prisons or forensic services)
- An understanding of the 1983 Mental Health Act and subsequent mental health legislation as they pertain to nursing
- Ability to present information both written and oral form and communicate this effectively.
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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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Are you ready to unlock 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 Mental Health 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.
We welcome applications from Newly Qualified Nurses who will undertake our award winning preceptorship programme. We also encourage experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare
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