Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Pattern)
Job ref: 277-6989837-SWALE-A
Site: HMP Swaleside
Town: Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
Salary: £48,148 - £54,809 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
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 break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking to recruit a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Offender Healthcare Paramedic to join our friendly team at HMP Swaleside.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, using skills and strategies that instil 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.
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, encouraging career and personal development to increase clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
As an expert practitioner and source of expert advice to clinicians, allied health professionals, offenders, and prison staff, you will provide specialist paramedic interventions to patients and support junior colleagues. You will assist and support the Operational Manager to lead a nurse-led integrated primary care service, developing a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious, and passionate about high-quality, safe, and effective care to offenders with a desire to influence and work in close partnership with clinical and managerial staff.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.
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
* Respond to all medical emergencies as they arise within the prison.
* Support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
* Manage a small clinical caseload.
* Carry out effective triage of patients presenting with minor ailments.
* Provide paramedic interventions within scope of practice.
* Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons.
* Ensure all clinics and consultations are delivered in a clinically effective and timely way.
* Maintain systems for the collection of triage and allocation of referrals.
* Administer intravenous injections, immunisations, and syringe pumps and infusions as necessary.
Management responsibilities
* Implement strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease.
* Maximise resources to target need, including the supervision of staff.
* Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to team members.
* Maintain an effective case management service for continuity of treatment.
* Implement effective systems and interfaces with community and acute health services.
* Maintain close working partnerships with all services involved in the care and management of offenders.
Human Resources
* Coordinate the Integrated Healthcare Team.
* Ensure systems are in place for clinical supervision for junior team members.
Governance
* Ensure compliance with clinical policies and procedures.
* Ensure staff comply with the administration and management of medications.
* Maintain high standards of electronic record-keeping and offender confidentiality.
General
* Liaise with other senior Trust personnel to share expertise and promote ideas.
* Work positively in a difficult and often hostile environment.
* Be aware of environmental hazards and ensure staff are informed of relevant health & safety policies.
* Comply with Trust policies and guidelines.
* Promote equality of opportunity and provide a respectful environment.
Communication
* Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working.
* Develop partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors, and other agencies integral to prisoner/patient care.
* Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with Integrated Primary Healthcare Services.
Custodial Responsibilities
* Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
* Comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions.
* Respond to situations indicating a threat to security or safety.
* Report breaches of order and discipline.
* Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Professional Qualification - Registered Paramedic
* Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
* Minimum of two years’ experience post preceptorship.
* Experience of multi-professional collaboration.
* Experience of setting, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care.
* Experience of working within secure & prison settings.
* Working knowledge of current issues in prison/offender healthcare.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
* Understanding of change management and new ways of working.
* Ability to work effectively and autonomously.
* Ability to lead and empower people.
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 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 interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Name: Clare Denny
Job title: Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07504877653
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