Senior Nurse - Registered General Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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 part-time Senior Registered Nurse position at HMP Standford Hill, focusing on delivering high-quality primary care and specialist interventions to offenders. The role involves providing evidence-based nursing practice, managing a complex caseload, and supporting junior colleagues. You will contribute to an integrated healthcare model, promoting health and well-being within the prison setting. This role offers a chance to blend clinical knowledge with a commitment to high standards of care in a challenging yet rewarding environment.
Key responsibilities
- Provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders.
- Deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based nursing practice.
- Carry out duties including reception screening, emergency response, long term conditions management, planned care (e.g. running clinics), enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities.
- Hold a complex caseload and support more junior colleagues with help or advice.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the healthcare team and provide clinical supervision to junior team members.
- Deputise for the Team manager as required.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse RGN
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5.
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- 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.
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
- Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators.
- Good analytical and judgement skills.
- Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour
Desirable criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,959 – £50,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a part time Senior 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.
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Main duties of the job
As a senior registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Standford Hill, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based
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