Are you a registered nurse looking for a role within Forensic Services where you can make a real difference to the lives of our patients?
We are recruiting for a
Physical Health Nurse to join our team and champion physical healthcare, health promotion, and illness prevention across our forensic services. You’ll play a vital role in educating staff, students, and patients, helping to optimise service users’ ability to take charge of their own physical wellbeing.
You’ll be a visible, approachable, and expert presence—working directly in clinical settings, supporting staff, and collaborating within a dynamic multidisciplinary team. You’ll ensure physical health needs are thoroughly assessed and addressed, promoting a proactive approach to care.
This role is based at our Littlemore Mental Health Centre in Oxford and covers all 10 wards within our low secure and medium secure forensic units across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Working closely with ward-based health leads, our community team, and wider services like physiotherapy, you’ll help shape a joined-up, patient-centred approach to physical health. If this sounds like your next career move, we would love to hear from you!
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary
- Provide clinical judgment, expertise and advice on all aspects of physical health nursing, health promotion and illness prevention to staff, students and/or patients/clients.
- Optimise the service users’ potential to participate in promoting and maintaining their own good physical health.
- Support progress on the implementation and embedding of key areas of work aimed at addressing health inequalities for our patients and identifying deteriorating patients, such as NEWS2, physical health monitoring, care planning and wellbeing clinics.
- Support the Head of Nursing and their team in delivering the Trusts’ physical health strategy and National drivers aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan, and participate in clinical audit in relation to physical health. Contribute to research as required.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:
“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are:
“Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alicia Harley Job title: Physical Health Clinician Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07785 682 809
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
