Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Location:
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23.01.2025 Expiry Date:
09.03.2025 Job Description:
Job summary 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 to 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. You will be required to demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice 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. You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment throughout a patient care pathway while detained in prison. You will 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. About us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: We're Kind We Listen We Care 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. To deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, including 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 ensure quality and outcome-driven practice. 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, ensuring junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal. To ensure the implementation of effective patient-centered care planning tools and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service. To 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. 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 (including 1 photographic ID), Proof of address documentation, and for Non-UK passport holders, the correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History:
5 years address history will be needed. Applicants who are not UK Passport holders and provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate 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.
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