Registered Nurse or Paramedic

Overview

Job Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a Primary Care Practitioner (Nurse or Paramedic) 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 Practitioners 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 you to apply for more senior positions once your competencies have been met.

We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified professionals (newly qualified nurses will be offered a preceptorship) and experienced Band 5 practitioners looking for a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to aid your development.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post:
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a registered Nurse/Paramedic you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Bristol, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based nursing practice to those in prison.

Our primary care practitioners carry out a range of duties including:

• Reception screening
• Emergency response
• Long term conditions management
• Planned care (e.g. running clinics)
• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services
• Health promotion activities

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.

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)

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.

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 06 January 2026

Pay scheme Agenda for change

Band Band 5

Salary £31,049 to £37,796 a year pa

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Full-time

Reference number -BRIS

Job locations HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bristol, BS7 8PS

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills. To deliver high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the 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,…