SMS Registered Nurse - HMP Forest Bank
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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 role involves triaging and providing holistic care for substance misusers within HMP Forest Bank, including wound care, medication administration, and nurse-led clinics. The post holder will conduct comprehensive clinical assessments, develop integrated treatment plans, and monitor patient progress. It also requires collaboration with the ISMS team and participation in training and service development.
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship / supervision/teaching / assessing experience/ training
- Knowledge of current healthcare issues. Knowledge of clinical governance audit, risk management and quality agenda.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
- Competent in clinical practice e.g., phlebotomy, ECG monitoring.
- Worked in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
- Understanding and application of confidentiality.
- Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment.
- Experience of health needs assessment/Triage.
- Working to Patient Group Directives.
- Experience in working in general practice.
- Management / Minor Injuries
- Experience of using SystmOne or willing to undertake training.
- Education
- Registered General Nurse
- Mentorship / supervision/teaching / assessing experience/ training
- Knowledge of current healthcare issues. Knowledge of clinical governance audit, risk management and quality agenda.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
- Competent in clinical practice e.g., phlebotomy, ECG monitoring.
- Worked in a complex environment managing deteriorating patients
- Understanding and application of confidentiality.
- Experience of working within a Health & Justice environment.
- Experience of health needs assessment/Triage.
- Working to Patient Group Directives.
- Experience in working in general practice.
- Management / Minor Injuries
- Experience of using SystmOne or willing to undertake training.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
- To triage the drug treatment needs of new arrivals/transfers and those currently in custody.
- To be responsible for the holistic care of Substance misusers, inclusive of wound care, administration of general & Controlled meds, and nurse led clinics
- To provide advice on a range of health and harm reduction issues to drug misusers.
- To safely promote the generic health needs of prisoners with drug misuse issues and refer on to Health Care when required.
- To provide a safe and accurate full comprehensive clinical substance misuse assessment of prisoner's drug treatment needs in collaboration with the Substance Misuse prescriber and Recovery Services using evidence-based research.
- To make recommendations and identify the patient's drug treatment needs in developing their integrated treatment plan.
- To administer and supervise the consumption of controlled drug medication as prescribed to patients of the service in line with the service / Prison Protocols.
- To monitor 3 x times daily progress of those in first week of treatment as a minimum and less frequently for those no longer assessed as needing frequent individual contact in line with service protocols.
- To manage the care treatment plans safely and effectively for ISMS patients.
- To promote clinical governance by complying with agreed clinical guidance, while maintaining own clinical competencies in t
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