Staff Nurse - Inpatients
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join an inpatient unit at HMP Elmley, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a prison setting. The role involves providing integrated healthcare services, including mental health, physical health, pharmacy, and clinical substance misuse. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on promoting health and well-being and supporting patient resettlement. This position requires clinical knowledge, personal skills, and a commitment to high standards of care in a challenging yet rewarding environment.
Essential criteria
- oProfessional NMC Qualification - Registered Nurse Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level or equivalent.
- oExperience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- oExperience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- oWorking knowledge of current issues/agendas facing healthcare in chosen area of specialism
- oExperience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- oAbility to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- oAbility to present ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- oAbility to work effectively and autonomously
- oAbility to lead and empower people to make decisions and plan ahead.
- oProfessional NMC Qualification - Registered Nurse Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level or equivalent.
- oExperience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- oExperience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- oWorking knowledge of current issues/agendas facing healthcare in chosen area of specialism
- oExperience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- oAbility to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- oAbility to present ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- oAbility to work effectively and autonomously
- oAbility to lead and empower people to make decisions and plan ahead.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,073 – £41,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Inpatients
The closing date is 15 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 Nurse to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient in our inpatient unit at HMP Elmley.
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.
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