# Learning Disability Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/learning-disability-nurse/220be5c7-14bf-404c-970b-bb62660931ed - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/learning-disability-nurse/220be5c7-14bf-404c-970b-bb62660931ed.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Pinewood House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Learning disability nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days per week - 3 days at Ashfield, 1 day at Leyhill) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T12:03:34.472Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Bristol/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Prison_Nursing/Prison_Nursing-v8264948 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264948?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 In this varied role, you will complete specialist assessments, develop and review care and risk-management plans, and deliver therapeutic interventions to individuals and groups. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies, you will help patients manage their health, promote wellbeing and ensure they receive coordinated, evidence-based care. You will also provide visible clinical leadership, supporting and supervising junior colleagues, contributing to safeguarding, audit, training and service improvement. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership skills while helping to shape and improve learning disability care within a prison setting. This post is based across both HMP Ashfield and HMP Leyhill. You will be required to work 3 shifts per week at HMP Ashfield (7.30am-5.30pm) and 1 shift per week at HMP Leyhill (7.30am - 5pm). A full driving licence and the ability to travel between sites are essential. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway. - The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations. - The post holder will ensure a named care co-ordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs who will ensure a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach. - The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated, care plans developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed. - The post holder will ensure that a comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle. - The post holder will ensure a care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs will be tailored to the needs of the establishment. - The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches, to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery - The post holder will support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long term conditions. - The post holder will ensure that health promotion embedded into every aspect of the service. 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** - Experience and knowledge at providing assessment, formulating plan and delivering intervention ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstratable post registration experience working with people with a learning disability to a Band 6 level - Experience of working in a multidisciplinary/multi agency team. **Desirable** - Experience of Prison/Secure environments ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - RNLD/RMN - NMC Registration ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [jd & person spec (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10579214) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [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.