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.

• HMP Elmley Isle of Sheppey “B” Remand, 1,200 (male), 24/7 Inpatient Unit
• HMP Swaleside “B” High Security, 1,200 (male)
• HMP Standford Hill “D” Open, 500 (male), Standard
• HMP Rochester/HMP Cookham Wood Rochester “C”, 650 (male), 24/7
• 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 substance misuse / dependency and related physical health issues in prison. Working closely with wider 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 weekdays, not just weekends, at HMP Rochester. Please note there are no night shifts at HMP Rochester.

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’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Clare Denny |

Job title:

Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer | Email: