Bank Registered & Senior Nurses - HMP

Overview

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 were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting Registered Nurses and 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. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing 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 based on experience. To work as a bank-only worker you will need to have completed preceptorship training or obtained 6 months post-qualification experience.

As a Registered Nurse, you will:

• exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy
• plan and reach complex and critical judgements
• 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
• demonstrate robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive, outcome-driven approach

As a Senior Nurse, you will:

• provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders
• maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment
• deliver all clinics and consultations in a clinically effective and timely way
• promote health and prevent disease within the prison setting
• work with the Clinical Lead, GPs and other clinicians to meet service needs
• deputise for the Team Manager as required
• operate in a challenging environment with adherence to health and safety policies

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Services include district nursing, 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 partnership with the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector.

We have over 4,300 staff across locations including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We operate over 125 sites in the South of England, including London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich, Kent, and hospitals such as Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in multiple regions.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and families. Our values are:
We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.

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 with decision-making skills
• 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
• Demonstrate robust…