Full Job Description
Role: Release and Transfer Nurse Coordinator
Location: HMP Wormwood Scrubs, London (Category B Prison)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 15:30
Salary: Up to £53,172 per annum (depending on experience)
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Release and Transfer Nurse Coordinator to join our Primary Care team at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. This is a rewarding role where you will deliver the highest standards of healthcare while supporting patients through their release or transfer, ensuring safe and effective continuity of care.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Release and Transfer Nurse Coordinator, your responsibilities will include implementing and overseeing the Release and Transfer Pathway, managing patient health assessments, care planning, delivery, and evaluation including clinical risk assessments, running face to face clinics to support patients preparing for release or transfer, participating in multi disciplinary team discussions and working closely with healthcare colleagues, prison teams, and external organisations to ensure safe discharge planning, leading and line managing members of the Transfer and Release team, and collaborating with wider release teams in the prison and external agencies to support patients effectively.
What We’re Looking For
We want dedicated and compassionate professionals who can thrive in a secure environment and are committed to improving healthcare access for all.
Essential requirements:
NMC Registered Adult Nurse
Strong clinical expertise with evidence of applying local and national policies such as NICE guidance
Experience in developing care pathways, protocols, and monitoring outcomes
Previous line management experience
Desirable experience:
Previous work in hospital, community, or prison healthcare settings
What We Offer
At Practice Plus Group, we are committed to supporting your professional growth and wellbeing. You will benefit from a bespoke induction including our Introducing Health in Justice training course, ongoing career development opportunities at regional and national levels, access to our Learning Management System to support continuous learning, discounts on shopping and leisure activities, 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial wellbeing support, and a supportive, collaborative team environment.
About Practice Plus Group
We are the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services, delivering healthcare to over 40,000 patients in secure environments across 53 prisons, young offender institutions, and immigration removal centres. Our purpose is to Unlock your best work life, and our values guide everything we do: we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated, we act with integrity, we embrace diversity, and we strive to do things better together.
Important Information
Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Due to the nature of this role, offers of employment are subject to additional vetting and security checks. Secure environments are challenging but rewarding places to work. If you want to develop your skills, make a meaningful difference, and embrace a role where no two days are the same, this could be the opportunity for you.
