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Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work)
Job ref: 277-7054593-SWALE-A
Site: HMP Swaleside
Town: Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
Salary: £39,338 - £46,962 pa inc, incl RRP
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
As a senior nurse, you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Swaleside, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
You will maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison. You will be required to ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way and implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease whilst in prison.
As a senior member of staff, you will be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the Healthcare Team, supporting junior colleagues and ensuring systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members.
I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, I see them grow, change and improve their general health. Ellen, Clinical Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions, we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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 includes acute & 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 ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
The post holder will need to carry a radio and be competent to lead in medical emergency responses.
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 programmes, ensuring junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal, making it 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.
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, working closely with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.
We have over 125 sites in various locations in the South of England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes. 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 Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational
* Support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* Manage a complex clinical caseload.
* 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 & allocation of referrals as appropriate and monitoring and supporting the auditing of quality and effectiveness of service delivery.
* Be able to give intravenous injections, immunisations, and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary for the role of co-ordinating complex prisoners.
Management
* Implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease, working proactively and collaborating with other professionals, organisations, and agencies as required.
* Maximise resources to target need, including the supervision of staff.
* Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to team members while retaining overall responsibility and accountability on a shift-to-shift basis.
* Maintain an effective case management service to ensure care and continuity of treatment throughout a patient care pathway whilst detained in prison.
* Implement appropriate & effective and accredited care planning tools subject to the process in accordance with agreed Trust Policies.
* Implement effective systems and interfaces with community and acute health services ensuring continuity of care on release or discharge.
Human Resources
* Responsible for day-to-day co-ordination of the Integrated Healthcare Team.
* Ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision to junior team members including annual appraisal and identification of specific service, training, and personal development needs.
Governance
* Ensure junior staff compliance with all Prison and Trust clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.
* Ensure appropriately skilled & qualified staff comply with the administration and management of medications according to their responsibilities in accordance with all relevant policies, guidance, and procedures.
* Ensure 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
* Liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise, promote ideas, and ensure the service is working collaboratively with the Trust's other Directorates as required.
* 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.
* Work in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines.
* Familiarize yourself 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.
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
* Registered Nurse RGN
* Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
* Registered General Nurse
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 & prison settings.
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 & Performance Indicators.
* Good analytical and judgement skills.
Effort and Environment
* Ability to manage complex & challenging behaviour.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. 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.
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.
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.
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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