Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to breakinto offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Staff Nurse to join our friendly team at HMP Guys Marsh.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, which encourages career and personal development for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
As a staff nurse, you will provide high-quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Guys Marsh, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
You will be delivering high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based nursing practice to those in prison.
Job responsibilities
* 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, including acute & primary care, long-term conditions management, enhanced assessment, 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.
* 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, training, and annual appraisal, ensuring that it becomes an integral part of team practice.
* To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate patient-centered care planning tools 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, managing a single referral pathway.
* The post holder will be required to undertake training to maximize uptake of screening, health promotion, and prevention activity, including vaccinations.
* The post holder will ensure a named care coordinator is allocated for every patient with complex needs, ensuring a proactive, evidence-based approach to clinical interventions, health promotion/prevention activity, and management of acute and long-term conditions using our stepped care approach.
* The post holder will ensure that a single, integrated care plan is developed, and the individualised care is regularly reviewed.
* The post holder will ensure that comprehensive risk assessments and care plans are regularly reviewed in a needs-led review cycle.
* The post holder will ensure care coordination criteria and MDT meetings for patients with complex needs tailored to the needs of the establishment.
* The post holder will ensure that they undertake all training in evidence-based CBT approaches to enhance consistency and quality of care delivery.
* The post holder will support patients to manage their health at every stage, from oral health to long-term conditions.
* The post holder will ensure that health promotion is embedded into every aspect of the service.
* To 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.
* 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.
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. (Registered General Nurse) (or pending PIN)
Experience
* Working knowledge or interest in current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare.
* 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.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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