Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Flexible working
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Bank Registered and Senior Nurses to work flexibly within the prison service at HMP Bristol. This role involves delivering high-quality integrated healthcare, including acute, primary care, and long-term conditions management, to promote health and well-being among offenders. Nurses will contribute to improving patient outcomes and supporting their resettlement back into the community. The positions are for Band 5 or 6, with banding determined by experience.
Essential criteria
- Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6)
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience (B6)
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care (B5/B6)
- Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5 (B6)
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations (B6)
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare (B6)
- Completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience (B5)
Desirable criteria
- Previous prison/secure experience (B5/B6)
- Good written and verbal communication skills (B5/B6)
- Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour (B6)
- Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6)
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience (B6)
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care (B5/B6)
- Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5 (B6)
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations (B6)
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare (B6)
- Completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post qualification experience (B5)
- Previous prison/secure experience (B5/B6)
- Good written and verbal communication skills (B5/B6)
- Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour (B6)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,592 – £42,170 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
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.
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 patients 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.
Please note: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.
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