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 and assist & 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.
Shift Pattern: 07:15-19:45 including weekends.
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 decision-making skills.
To deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include 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 provide a pro-active 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 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.
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 & 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.
You will need to provide:
1. Proof of right to work documentation
2. Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
3. Proof of address documentation
4. Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
5. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed.
6. 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.
7. 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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
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 (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
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