Learning Disability Nurse

Are you an experienced Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? We are seeking a motivated Band 6 Nurse to join our established prison healthcare team, providing high-quality, person-centred care to adults with learning disabilities, learning difficulties and complex needs across HMP Ashfield and HMP Leyhill.

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.**

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.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Shanna Pidoux Job title: Mental Health Clinical Lead Email address: [email protected]