Bank Registered & Senior Nurses – HMP Erlestoke

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Full time
Location: Devizes
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Job offered by: NHS
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Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP Erlestoke

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career. Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting

Registered Nurses & Senior Nurses

to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis. Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' 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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future. Please note: We are looking for registered nurses at band 5 or 6; banding will be discussed at interview and is based on experience. In order to work as a bank-only worker, you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience. Main duties of the job

As a

Registered Nurse , you will be required to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments. You will be delivering high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, which will include acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities. In order to do the above, you will be required to demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality & outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis. As a

Senior Nurse , you will provide high-quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. Within the prison, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. Our senior nurses deliver primary care, emergency response, and first-night in custody/new registration services. You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway while detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease while in prison. Job responsibilities

Registered Nurse Duties: To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. To manage a complex clinical caseload. To support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service. Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way, in line with service needs. Senior Nurse Duties: The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments and have decision-making skills. To deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities. To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis. To support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate. To participate in managerial and professional clinical supervision programs, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal. To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient-centered care planning tools and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service. The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, GPs, and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required. To deputize for the Team Manager as required. To work positively and effectively in a difficult and often hostile environment. Be aware of environmental hazards in the working area; ensure staff are aware of relevant health & safety policies deriving from the Health & Safety at Work Act. To work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines. To be familiar with Prison Standards, Standing Orders, Circular instructions, Notices to Staff, Health and Safety, and all other relevant material to function as an informed practitioner within a prison setting. Promote equality of opportunity and provide an environment in which the dignity of individuals is respected and free from workplace harassment and bullying. 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. Person Specification

Qualifications

Registered NMC Qualification (B5/B6) Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience (B6) Experience

Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care (B5/B6) Minimum of two years' experience at Band 5 (B6) Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organizations (B6) Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare (B6) Skills

Good written and verbal communication skills (B5/B6) Ability to manage complex & challenging behavior (B6) Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer £32,324 to £39,405 a year Per annum pro-rata

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