Senior Nurse (Primary Care)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse to join a diverse healthcare team at HMP Exeter, delivering high-quality primary care services to offenders. The role involves providing specialist interventions, managing a complex caseload, and supporting junior colleagues. You will be instrumental in promoting health and well-being within the prison setting, focusing on patient-centred care and resettlement.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse)
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5
- Working knowledge or clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
- Education/Qualifications
- Professional Qualification. (Registered General Nurse)
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5
- Working knowledge or clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations. Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
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 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 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._
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.
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