Senior Nurse

Posting date:	10 March 2026
Salary:	£46,419.00 to £55,046.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£46419.00 - £55046.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 March 2026
Location:	Heathfield Rd, London, SW18 3HU
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	C9277-26-0275

Summary

Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations. Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, senior management teams and staff, probation services, CPS, police, and all other statutory and nonstatutory agencies that are integral to offender care and offender management. Management responsibilities: The post holder will exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance. Required to make clinical and risk management judgements on situations as they arise and respond using appropriate contingencies thereby ensuring the safety of the client. Act as a representative of the service at appropriate meetings as required. Participate in the annual Professional Development Reviews and demonstrate reflective practice through the Knowledge and Skills Framework The post holder be responsible for maintaining stock & advising on resources required to carry out the job. Leadership To undertake effective support, guidance, supervision, and appraisal of junior staff To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal. To demonstrate basic leadership skills through the management of designated user involvement projects. Contribute to the Trust's, directorates and team's clinical governance arrangements and quality arrangements and quality agenda. To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF. Physical Effort: The work is performed in a ward environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Must have the ability to walk short distances and use stairs. Mental effort: The post holder will require occasional periods of prolonged concentration, and or unpredictable working pattern, ability to work under pressure and provide support to colleagues in a difficult situation. Maintain a professional approach while working in challenging, distressing situations or dealing with challenging behaviour. Emotional effort: There may be a requirement to deal with highly distressing or emotional circumstances. The post holder may require supporting individuals, their families and carers when faced with unwelcome news and life changing diagnoses. Working Condition: The holder work in an area, which complies with the Trust Health & Safety Policy. There is limited exposure to hazardous substances, but these are controlled. May be exposed to violent and aggressive patients, but these are managed by the officers. Clinical: The post holder will contribute to the Trust, Directorate and teams clinical governance and quality agenda including the setting and monitoring of practice standards. Provide a range of psychosocial interventions including self-management support and provision of advice or information regarding facilities local to the area of need of an individual utilizing your own knowledge or media provided by local authorities. You will be expected to maintain a balance between the therapeutic alliance, active risk management and the statutory and legal framework. You will be accountable for the assessment of support needs, risk assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of user involvement projects and to assess and manage fluctuations in risk relating to personality disordered offenders in the community. To identify and use innovative problem solving and decision-making skills. Research The post holder will require to lead on or participate in research & audit projects. The post holder will demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research, apply them to practice and disseminate findings at local level. To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects. Communication: The post holder will require to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a range of professionals, prisoners, and carers within the framework of confidentiality and Data Protection. To communicate effectively on a range of issues that are often complex in their nature and in complex situations. To establish links with agencies dealing with personality disordered prisoners, substance misuse and forensic mental health, ensuring close working relationships with Probation and Criminal Justice agencies. 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 soughtfrom: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).