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Mental health trust · Dartford, South East

Adult Nurse at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Working as an adult nurse at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Dartford, South East means a mental health caseload across inpatient units, community mental health teams, crisis services and, in most organisations, child and adolescent and secure services. Band 5 starts at £32,073 on the England 2026/27 scale. No workforce or staff survey figures for this organisation are in the open dataset yet, so this page sets out the caseload, the national pay ladder and where the local courses are, and states nothing it cannot source.

Adult NurseBand 5 entryEngland
Not published Adult Nurses employed here Organisation-level workforce data is not in the open dataset yet
£32,073 Band 5 starting salary England, 2026/27 scale
Not published Median pay, all occupations Not published in the open data
Not published Staff survey response rate Not in the open dataset for this organisation

The job at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Adult nurses assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care for adults of all ages, from young adults to older people, across conditions ranging from heart disease and diabetes to cancer and traumatic injury. They build trusting relationships with patients and families while working in multidisciplinary teams alongside occupational therapists, pharmacists, radiographers and healthcare assistants. Adult nursing is the largest field of nursing practice on the NMC register, and adult nurses work across hospital wards, outpatient clinics, patients' homes and community settings. Adults of all ages with acute and long-term conditions, and their families, across hospital, outpatient, home and community settings.

At a mental health trust such as Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, that work means a mental health caseload across inpatient units, community mental health teams, crisis services and, in most organisations, child and adolescent and secure services. Rotations here tend to move between inpatient and community teams rather than between body systems, and supervision arrangements matter more than in almost any other setting. Across the profession as a whole, adult nurses work in settings including NHS acute trust wards, outpatient clinics, patients' homes, community health teams and GP practices — an organisation of this type will run some of those services and not others, which is why two posts with the same job title in the same city can be very different jobs.

Pay is not an employer decision. Agenda for Change is negotiated nationally and set separately in each of the four nations, so Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in England pays it: £32,073 at the bottom of the band on the 2026/27 scale. What genuinely differs between two employers is the caseload, how rotations are structured, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far you travel between sites. Those are the questions worth asking at interview.

This page states no figure specific to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust because none is published in the open data. When the workforce and staff survey feeds include this organisation, the establishment size, the response rate and the theme scores will appear above.

Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Organisation type
Mental health trust
Based in
Dartford
Region
South East
Nation
England
Regulator
NMC registration required
Usual starting band
Band 5
Local courses
1 in South East

What you would be paid, band by band

England Agenda for Change rates, 2026/27 — the same at every NHS employer in the nation.

Agenda for Change pay for adult nurses in England
Band Starting Point 2 Point 3 Top of band
Band 4 £28,392£31,157 £31,157
Band 5 Entry level £32,073£34,592£39,043 £39,043
Band 6 £39,959£42,170£48,117 £48,117
Band 7 £49,387£51,932£56,515 £56,515
Band 8a £57,528£60,417£64,750 £64,750
£28,392 Band 4 · Newly qualified First post after registration, for roles that start at band 4 (e.g. nursing associates).
£32,073 Band 5 · Newly qualified First post after registration, usually rotational.
£39,959 Band 6 · Specialist Typically two to four years in; a defined clinical specialty.
£49,387 Band 7 · Advanced or team lead Clinical leadership, complex caseload, supervision.
£57,528 Band 8a · Consultant or service lead Service-wide responsibility or consultant practice.

Adult Nurse pay in detail · The whole England scale · Band 5 adult nurses

Where to train for this job near Dartford

1 university in the South East runs an approved pre-registration course for adult nurses. Placements are commissioned with the trusts and boards nearest the university, so these are the courses most likely to place students with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, across undergraduate degree routes.

Approved courses for adult nurses in the South East
Course University Route Length
Nursing (Adult) University of Southampton BSc 3 years

Adult Nurses at other organisations in the South East

Same registration, same bands, different caseload — the organisation type is the variable, and the size of the establishment tells you how many colleagues and how many rotation slots sit behind the job title.

Published establishments for adult nurses at NHS organisations in the South East
Organisation Type Based in Full-time equivalent
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust Chertsey
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Mental health trust Bracknell
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Acute trust Amersham
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Acute trust Dartford
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust Canterbury
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Acute trust St Leonards-on-Sea
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust Camberley
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Integrated care organisation Southampton
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust Basingstoke
Isle of Wight NHS Trust Integrated care organisation Newport
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust Mental health trust Maidstone
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Community trust Ashford
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust This page Mental health trust Dartford

A blank establishment figure means the organisation did not return one for this profession, not that it employs nobody. Only organisations whose type runs this service are listed.

Other nursing roles at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Where this page’s data comes from

The figures on this page are national or regional. No workforce, staff survey or inspection data for this organisation is in the open dataset yet.