Job summaryAre you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and 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 an Advanced Clinical Practitioner 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.
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 jobAs an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Mental Health) you will be providing high-level, autonomous clinical care within prison healthcare settings across HMP Portland and HMP The Verne.
This is a predominantly clinical role, requiring the post holder to work independently, exercising advanced clinical judgement in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, medication management and risk management of people with complex mental health needs within custodial environments.
The post holder will act as a senior clinical decision-maker within prisons, providing expert input to multidisciplinary and primary care teams, and responding to escalated clinical and risk concerns where complexity, acuity or uncertainty exceeds the scope of routine services. The role is not primarily managerial and does not hold day-to-day service management accountability.
Clinical time will be shared flexibly across HMP Portland and HMP The Verne, based on clinical demand and risk, ensuring equitable access to senior clinical expertise across the prison estate.
About usOxleas 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
DetailsDate posted: 12 May 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year pa
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 277-7950708-PORT
Job locations: HMP Portland, 104 Grove Road, Portland, DT5 1DL, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities- Provideadvanced, autonomous mental health assessment, formulation and treatmentfor individuals within HMP Portland and HMP The Verne.
- Act as asenior clinical decision-makerwithin prison healthcare, responding toescalated concerns from primary care and multidisciplinary teams.
- Share clinical time flexibly across prisons according toclinical need, acuity and risk, ensuring equitable senior clinical input.
- Maintain responsibility for safe, effective and timely clinical interventions within custodial environments.
Full JD is available in supporting documents section of this advert.
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 (Apply through our website)
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). (Apply through our website)
Person SpecificationEducation & QualificationsEssential- Professional Qualification (Registered RMN or MH Practitioner)
- Evidence of Leadership/ Management qualification
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Post graduate Advanced Clinical Practice Qualification at degree
ExperienceEssential- Previous experience in a multi-disciplinary environment delivering mental health and substance misuse care and services (min 3yrs)
- Experience of working within prison or secure settings
- Evidence of working as a nurse prescriber within the substance misuse or mental health field
SkillsEssential- Working knowledge of current issues/ agendas facing prison healthcare.
- Knowledge of Substance misuse and Mental Health Services within prisons/secure environments
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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