Senior Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse to join a diverse healthcare team delivering primary care services in a prison setting. The role involves providing high-quality clinical care, including reception screening, emergency response, long-term conditions management, and health promotion activities. You will manage a complex caseload, support junior colleagues, and coordinate the healthcare team, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and evidence-based nursing practice.
Essential criteria
- RGN
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent 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
- Substantial Band 5 experience and can clearly demonstrate competencies/ability to work at band 6 level
Desirable criteria
- Prison/Secure setting experience
- Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
- Knowledge/interest of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
- RGN
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent 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
- Substantial Band 5 experience and can clearly demonstrate competencies/ability to work at band 6 level
- Prison/Secure setting experience
- Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
- Knowledge/interest of current National Prison Health Quality & Performance Indicators
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- 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.
Posted 5d ago · Closes in 10d
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Nurse
The closing date is 16 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 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 qua
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