Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£55,690 - £62,682 pa
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 April 2026
Location:	Portland, DT5 1EQ
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7859007/277-7733914-VERN-B

Summary

Are 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 a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to join our team as our Advanced Nurse Practitioner. You will be joining 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.

Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to lead our primary care team. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend clinical insight, leadership, and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.



In this role, you'll be a senior practitioner, leader and source of expert advice to registered healthcare professionals, patients and their carers. You will support the Head of Healthcare to ensure the effective day-to-day operational management of the primary care team.

You will provide quality primary care interventions to patients, demonstrate the ability to lead and empower others and the ability to plan and implement innovative practice. As an expert practitioner, you will lead an integrated prison health care service and support the development of specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

Collaborating with the Head of Healthcare, you will have a significant role in strategically planning our healthcare services, aligning with national standards and local needs. Your visionary approach will identify areas for improvement and innovation, allowing you to lead on initiatives that transform service delivery.

The role is more than a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact, leading and shaping Primary Care services in a prison setting. If your passion lies in bridging health disparities and reducing health inequalities for a marginalised and often overlooked population, we invite you to bring your skills, vision, and enthusiasm to this immensely rewarding role.

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

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
• The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role.
• To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership of the Primary Care team, including, long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.
• To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the Primary Care team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis.
• To ensure monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the Primary Care team to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
• To implement effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools and a trauma informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.
• The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required.
• The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.
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• Management responsibilities
• To support the HoHC in accountability for the delivery of the Quality Agenda; participate in the effective management of clinical risk, the identification of best practice and addressing remedial actions as required.
• To manage a small, complex Primary Care clinical caseload.
• To develop, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
• To be responsible for day-to-day management & co-ordination of Primary Care provision and ensure integration with all other teams within healthcare delivery. Ensuring all Primary Care clinics and consultations are delivered in an effective & timely way, in line with service needs and supporting the HoHC in ensuring the same for all other healthcare teams.
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• Leadership
• Establish effective communications and networks to develop practice within healthcare.
• Contribute to the development of formal education, training and development programmes.
• Participate fully in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Participate fully in the Clinical Governance Forum
• Develop ways in which to improve learning, clinical practice and the patient experience.
Clinical• Assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis or complex needs
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• 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


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).



This advert closes on Monday 23 Mar 2026

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