Senior Nurse or Paramedic | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Nurse or Paramedic | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Are you ready tounlockyour potential within a challenging,creativeand 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 aSeniorRegistered Nurseor Paramedicto 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 positionisn'tjust a job;it'sa chance to blendyour clinical knowledge, personalskillsand 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.

As aseniorregistered nurseorparamedic,youwill provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions forour patients. At HMPBristol, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service andoperatea specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison,demonstratingrobust expert clinicalskillsand providing evidence-basedclinicalpractice to those in prison.

Ourseniorregisteredstaffcarry out a range of dutiesincluding;reception screening,emergency response, long term conditions management, planned care(e.g.running clinics), enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention servicesand health promotion activities.

As a senior member of our team, you will hold a complex caseload and support more junior colleagues with any help or advice they mayrequire. You will alsobe responsible forthe day-to-day co-ordination of the healthcare team and provide clinical supervision to junior team members including band 5healthcare professionals, healthcareassistantsand students.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy andhave the ability toplan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills.
• To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service forthe prison. This will include acute & primary care, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public healthindicatorsand National Service Frameworks.
• Todemonstrateand provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research asappropriate.
• Toparticipatein managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure junior staff receiveappropriate supervision,trainingand annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• Please note, HMP Bristol operate a 24/7 service.

Shift pattern:3 x 12.5-hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) per week for 3 weeks and 4 x 12.5 hour shifts (7:00am–7:30pm) on the 4th week. Where possible, one shift will be protected for mandatory training, supervision, and administration on-site.

• 2 weekends in every 6-week roster including both Saturday and Sunday.
• 1 set of 3-night shifts every 12-week roster including 2 per annum on weekends (7:00pm–7:30am)

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 photographicID

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:

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 (

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Aug 2026

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