Bank SMS Nurse HMP Band 6

Thank you for taking an interest in our Substance Misuse Service Bank Nurse position.

We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

HMP Elmley Isle of Sheppey 'B' Remand 1,200 (male) 24/7 Inc. Inpatient Unit

HMP Swaleside 'B' High Security 1,200 (male)

HMP Standford Hill 'D' Open 500 (male) Standard

HMP Maidstone Maidstone 'C' 500 (male) 24/7

HMP East Sutton Park 'D' Open 100 (female) Standard

We are looking for Bank SMS nurses to pick up shifts mostly at HMP Rochester.

We are looking for dedicated Substance Misuse Service Nurses to cover bank shifts providing specialised assessment and clinical care to prisoners with identified substancemisuse / dependency and related physical health issues in prison. Working closely withwider healthcare and prison departments to manage immediate risks and develop person centred collaboratively agreed recovery plan objectives.

We are looking for nurses with experience of substance misuse and who can pick up week days not just weekend at HMP Rochester.

Please note there is no night shifts at HMP Rochester.

Oxleas - 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 we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

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 and 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

Key Task and Responsibilities

To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include

Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions

Care Planning and risk assessing

One-to-one and group-work facilitation

Managing a mixed and challenging caseload

Providing appropriate, pragmatic harm minimisation advice to patients

Providing drug, alcohol and holistic health education to patients and colleagues

Leadership

Provide supervision to junior staff and to receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical).

To develop and take on a specialist lead role within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service as appropriate and provide peer support and training in this area.

To contribute towards support, advice, consultation, and training for other prison departments.

Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff.

Clinical

To complete comprehensive clinical assessment, developing immediate risk management and safety planning and instigate recovery planning for all prisoners arriving in HMP Rochester who have an identified substance misuse need/dependency issue.

Through assessment, identify and elevate safeguarding concerns relating to patients and their families at the point of arrival into HMPPS. Assist in the clinical oversight of new arrivals over the first five days in prison.

Correctly identify indicators of withdrawal or sedation and request appropriate clinical interventions to support patients including Opiate Replacement Therapy, alcohol detoxification and benzodiazepine detoxification.

Provide relevant harm minimisation and health education advice for patients with alcohol and substance use issues, including education in the administration of Naloxone.

Provide a range of evidenced-based specialised clinical care in the treatment of alcohol and substance dependency, and signposting for co-morbid conditions associated with and compounding to, patients substance and/or alcohol use.

Ensure that patients needs are addressed effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring equivalence of care or better that one would expect from accessing services in the community.

Participate in and co‑ordinate joint and collaborative care planning for patients with additional…