# Bank Registered Nurse - HMP Portland > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bank-registered-nurse-hmp-portland/a24b154a-bfdd-472f-b1f7-ec17b1b066a5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bank-registered-nurse-hmp-portland/a24b154a-bfdd-472f-b1f7-ec17b1b066a5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Pinewood House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Registered nurse - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £34,592 Per annum pro-rata - **Contract type:** Bank - **Employment type:** Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Up to 37.5hrs p/wk, Please note bank hours are ad-hoc and not guaranteed) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T11:12:52.601Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Portland/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Offender_Healthcare/Offender_Healthcare-v8349300 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8349300?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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. ### Main duties of the job As a Registered Nurse, you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgements. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities. In order to do the above, you will be required to demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality & outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. - To manage a complex clinical caseload. - To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service. - Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs. - To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. - To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. - To manage a complex clinical caseload. - To support the development, implement and maintenance the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service. - Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs - Registered Nurse Duties: (Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section) IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID Proof of address documentation Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited. In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en). ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Good written and verbal communication skills - Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working ### Experience **Essential** - 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** - Previous prison/secure experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered NMC Qualification - Completed preceptorship or gained 6 months post qualification experience ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [jd & ps band 5 nurse - hmp portland (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10674496) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.