Bank Registered Nurse - HMP Portland
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Flexible working
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Bank Registered Nurse to work within the prison service on a flexible basis at HMP Portland. You will deliver high-quality clinical care, including acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, and health promotion activities. The position requires exercising personal and professional autonomy and making complex clinical judgments to improve patient well-being and support resettlement.
Essential criteria
- Registered NMC Qualification
- Completed preceptorship or gained 6 months post qualification experience
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
Desirable criteria
- Previous prison/secure experience
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working
- Registered NMC Qualification
- Completed preceptorship or gained 6 months post qualification experience
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
- Previous prison/secure experience
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,592 – £34,592 — matches the national scale.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Bank Registered Nurse - HMP Portland
The closing date is 22 September 2026
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 Registered 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: 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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