Main area: Offender healthcare
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Pattern 07:15-19:45 including weekends)
Job ref: 277-7024051-ELM
Site: HMP Elmley, Town Kent
Salary: £39,338 - £46,962 pa inc, RRP inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Nurse to join our inpatients team at HMP Elmley in Kent. Within this post, you will provide a quality healthcare service and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. You will support junior colleagues, assist and support the Primary Care Leads (Band 7s) as directed to deliver a nurse-led integrated healthcare service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care for offenders.
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 deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include acute and primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services, and health promotion activities in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators, and National Service Frameworks.
* To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a proactive approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
* 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, to ensure junior staff receive appropriate supervision, 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-centered care planning tools, long-term condition registers, and consistent delivery throughout all the prisons within the service.
Working for our organisation
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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* 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.
* Maintain systems for the collection of triage and allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitor and support the auditing of quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
* To be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations, and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of coordinating complex prisoners.
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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Professional Qualification RGN
* Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
* Minimum of two years’ experience at Band 5.
* Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations.
* Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
* Experience of working within secure and prison settings (desirable but not essential).
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
* Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
* Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
* Knowledge of current National Prison Health Quality and Performance Indicators.
* Good analytical and judgement skills.
Effort and Environment
* Ability to manage complex and challenging behaviour.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Clare Denny
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07504877653
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