Staff Nurse
2 weeks ago
Job summary
We currently have an exciting opportunity for Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the Inpatient team at HMP Elmley in Kent.
With this post you will provide a quality healthcare care service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues and assist & support the inpatient manager as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated healthcare service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care for Kent Prisons.
You'll work in a unique and diverse environment, delivering many of the nurse-led services that are provided in the wider community, with a unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to the lives of people who have typically experienced health inequalities.
Working in a unique environment such as a prison, you'll deliver compassionate care to patients from diverse cultural backgrounds who are vulnerable and have complex health needs. Your role often varies, allowing you to pick up additional skills and develop your knowledge.
The types of work you may do could include:
You'll deliver compassionate care to patients from diverse cultural backgrounds who are vulnerable and have complex health needs.
health assessments mental health minor injury and illness end of life/palliative care substance misuse emergency and unscheduled care managing long-term conditions nurse consultation clinics safeguarding
Main duties of the job
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 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 programme, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice. To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools, long-term condition registers 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 The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway. The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximise uptake of screening, health promotion and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
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 purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: o We're Kind o We're Fair o We Listen o We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
IMPORTANT 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, needs to include 1 photographicID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be 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 .
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( ).
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.
To be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of co-ordinating complex prisoners.
Maintain systems for the collection of triage & allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitoring and supporting the auditing of quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
To maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison.
To maintain close working partnerships with all services that may be involved with the care and management of offenders, (prison staff, Ministry of Justice, Trust & Directorate senior managers & relevant forums, CMHT staff, NHS Hospitals, Probation Services, CPS, Courts, GP's, community health services, Housing/Benefit services, social care, community multi agency forums etc.).
Governance
Ensuring high standards of electronic record-keeping competencies and offender confidentiality in line with trust & prison policy and systems, through effective monitoring and auditing processes.
General
To liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas and to ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust's other Directorates 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.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
Qualification (RMN/RGN)
Desirable
Already in posession of an NMC PIN
Care and Compassion
Essential
Compassionate approach to care
Desirable
Underpinning models such as 6 Cs
Experience
Essential
Must be familiar with using NHS or other healthcare databases
Desirable
Experience working alongside PC nursing.-
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