Registered Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join a healthcare team delivering primary care services and specialist interventions to offenders within HMP Erlestoke. The role involves providing high-quality clinical care, including reception screening, emergency response, long-term conditions management, and health promotion activities. Band 5 nurses are offered a development pathway with a clear competency framework to aid professional growth and progression to more senior positions. Both newly qualified and experienced nurses are encouraged to apply.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification (Registered General Nurse)
- Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
- Working knowledge or a clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Experience as a registered nurse
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
- Education/ Qualifications
- Professional Qualification (Registered General Nurse)
- Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
- Working knowledge or a clear interest in prison/offender healthcare
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Experience as a registered nurse
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- 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: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
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.
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.
Our Band 5 nurses are all given the opportunity to undertake a development pathway, where a clear competency framework is set to aid your professional development. This pathway will focus on both clinical and personal skills to enable your to apply for more senior positions once your competencies have been met.
We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified registered nurses (who will initially be offered a preceptorship position) and experienced Band 5 nurses looking for a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to aid your development.
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