Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Bank Nursing Associate - HMP Erlestoke

The closing date is 22 December 2025

Job summary

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 Nursing Associates to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis at HMP Erlestoke, SN10 5TU.

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

The Nursing Associate will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users. They will be competent to carry out tasks without direct supervision and will have an awareness of when to ask for guidance.

They will be supervised by the Registered Nurse. This may be direct or indirect supervision.

The Nursing Associate will have completed a set of competency assessments and training that supports their practice and will be registered with the NMC.

About us

Oxleas - About Us

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:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

08 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 a year per annum pro-rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

277-BankNA-B4-HMPErle

Job locations

HMP Erlestoke

Devizes

SN10 5TU

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

Implement care packages or programmes in a range of settings under the supervision of registered clinical practitioners or as part of a multi-professional/multi-agency team.

Carry out specific care duties for patients, as delegated by a Registered Nurse or other relevant professional.

Monitor and contribute to care delivery and escalate any concerns.

Be guided by standard operating procedures (SOPs), good practice, established precedents and understand what results or standards are to be achieved.

Follow procedures and treatment plans, being the first point of contact for enquiries, using their own initiative but working under the supervision of a registered practitioner.

Work independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working to their nationally recognised code of conduct and Standards of Proficiency for Nursing Associates. Work as part of the multidisciplinary team.

Communicate effectively, with sensitivity and compassion, and manage relationships with people, making reasonable adjustments where necessary.

Ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with the members of the MDT team, families and carers.

Complete nursing risk assessments using recognised risk assessment tools.

Contribute to the planning of care delivery in association with the Registered Nurse.

May supervise more junior staff members.

(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 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: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).